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Re: Are you using the ZomB Dashboard System?

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Originally Posted by MikeNimmo View Post
We tried to use the ZomB Dashboard last year and encountered too many problems, so many in fact that we just ended up not using a dashboard at all during the competitions. More likely than not this was because, when we encountered problems, there was nobody we could easily consult with to deal with them. We, and also many other teams, have discovered that dashboards are much easier to use when we wrote them ourselves and knew every little factor about them.

As a side note, the functions of ZomB, although numerous and taco-filled, did not accomplish everything we wanted a dashboard to do.
could you elaborate on the difficulties? and what did you want it to do?
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