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Re: TEST Einstein BEFORE the BIG-show... here's a proposed approach...

Just saw this in a post earlier but I wanted to add my understanding about the actual FMS software and the FMS Light we can download. FMS Light is a mess and it is very difficult to understand and trudge through.

Thankfully FRC engineering understood this from last year and modified a lot of the process. Now the scorekeeper or field power controller is the one in charge of starting the pre start to engage the AP to generate the next set of SSID's. And the head ref is the one that actually publishes the scores up on the big screen after the match is over. This is part of the movement over toward real time scoring.

So this year the direct user interaction with the FMS software was significantly reduced. From what I understand the main interaction was to fix any scoring mistakes or penalty issues.

So mainly the interface was not directly through the server running FMS but more the indirect action through the field PLC that controls the real time scoring and AB PanelViews for the refs
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