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Re: NetworkTables issues / custom dash
The command packet still includes the LV dashboard protocol and it is accessible in LabVIEW
The underlying calls to Netcomm are the same for each language (3 function calls, get common control data, set common control data, set error data) and Netcomm supports it, so you should be able to modify the C++ or Java implementation of the WPIlib to access it. The protocol itself is very simple, it literally just sends two strings across the network. The functions just pack the string.
On the LV dashboard side it's still unbundled just not used.
You can send literal strings through the protocol by itself also, but make sure the strings aren't too big (I think there are around 900 bytes to work with).
We also use this older dashboard data system, and do not run a NetworkTables server at all on our robot (in LabVIEW). We deleted ALL references to NetworkTables (and basically everything else) and started from as low as possible.
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