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Originally Posted by yash101

This has been something I have always stumbled upon. This year, I am aiming to seamlessly integrate two systems together, one being the main robot code written in Java, and the other being the vision code running in C++. I am going to have my vision code run in Embedded Linux (ARM). I have not been able to find any good source for a library that will allow me to easily use NetworkTables.

Please point me to some resources. I wish to create a thread with a good answer so anyone else shot in the dark like me will have an easy time

Good Luck and Thanks!
Good Luck with your season and competitions!

Why go through the hassel of using network tables. My experience with it is the bugs are not worth the trouble.

Create a simple TCP socket between the C++ code and the Java code.

Make the robot the server, and the c++ code the client and send ascii data between the two.

Make sure you run the read/write in their own threads so there is no i/o blocking.

You can control the communications, the ports, and the data being sent - no need for network tables really.

Use pthreads on the C++ side, and ServerSocketConnectionclass on the java (crio) side. Those classes are already apart of the codebases you are targeting and no need to have additional interpreters installed or rely on WPI library implementation.

Hope this helps,
Kevin