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Originally Posted by Thad House
An IR receiver is still communicating to the robot, and would fail R61, unless it had an R73 exception. And if it is on the bot able to receive during a match, it would definitely fail.
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Several cameras used by teams can see in the IR band, are those disallowed because they can 'receive' data/instructions?
Edit: Just to clarify, the situation I proposed was, a robot has an LED controller which is controlled by an IR remote, before the match starts, possibly right after the robot it powered on, the person setting up the robot presses [color] on the remote. Afterwards and throughout the match the IR remote is not used to change the LED's color as it is currently not an approved wireless communication device.
Just because the LED controller CAN receive IR signals throughout the match doesn't mean it should be illegal by default.
One could receive IR signals with a normal camera, should those be illegal unless you add an IR filter to it so a person could not send signals to it directly?