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Does anyone have any information on where I can find info on the software that FIRST uses to control the arena compitition?
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If you really need to get more info, I'd suggest contacting FIRST, as they might be able to get you in touch with the developers. |
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From what I observed at the Canadian Regional, they had Flash displaying all the scoring and ranking, and a MySQL database holding all the data, but I'm not sure what they used to link the two together.
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I'll just put in my two cents. From what I saw from running the scoring system, here's how I think it works.... There's just one computer required, running FreeBSD. TacOps runs on it, presumably along with a MySQL server and a web server. Specs are mostly unknown to me, cause I was too busy to watch the BIOS screen. I know it has two video cards. One displays the TacOps console. The second is used for displaying the match results, etc. You'll need a fairly serious AV setup to use those displays, as they're intended to be a chroma keyed overlay over live video. So running normally, you'll have scores and such over a BRIGHT green background.
At any rate, the console is a regular x-term window. The Main Display is a Flash webpage, as are the Pit Display and the realtime scoring system. The trickiest part of all of this would be the fact that the field is controlled by a pretty fancy looking PLC controller that's connected to the computer through a network. So.... setting up an entire field system on your own would be a fairly monumental task. I think this year, teams will be mostly limited to trying to run things by hand, or actually just borrowing a field from FIRST. |
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Anyone know if the whole stuff was working well? Or was it more trouble than worth? Do you think its a good idea for FIRST to go to such a radically different set up this year? I pretty sure they used Windows before with some kind of database (maybe Filemaker?). |
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I know they used Filemaker before.
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Then again, I had no experience scoring before this season, so for all I know, this was as complicated as it got. Here's a (heh) screenshot I took of the system, at one point. |
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I did virtually all of the scoring at LSR, and I must say that the system could stand some improvement, from an operator's perspective. There were some glitches with various things, and the worst and most annoying problem was the fact that accidentally running the mouse off the side of the screen would mess up the main display till you reset it. There were a few other issues, but I'm not certain I should talk about it. I'm going to be emailing the system designers with some suggestions on improving the interface and making it easier to work with. In my opinion, there was entirely too much paging forwards and backwards between matches to make things work like they should. And there needed to be some buttons in other places to bring things up on the main display, since they're used so often. Mostly, I think it's a work in progress, and next year's system will be even better.
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Thanks, everyone for the info. I hope FIRST can iron-out all the bugs before PARC.
Keep the info comming :cool: Remember, "you can do anything if you put your mind to it". |
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Also, offseason is approaching fast, so it is probably a good idea for people who run various offseason competitions to come up with suggestions and possibly features that would help them run their competitions better. If FIRST doesn't know what you need, its a lot less likely you will get it. Those being my opinions. |
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