[DavisC]

Originally Posted by tech2077

In case anyone is interested, I wrote up a java class for this, you can use the start/stop functions to use the built in updater Timer, or use the update function to only poll distance when needed.
LIDAR.java

How do you (or anyone that has gotten this to work) implement this with the main class. I specifically am using the "Getting Started" example.

I tried using it something like this (don't have the exact code in front of me...):

Where variables are declared:

LIDAR myLidar = new LIDAR(port.kOnboard);

then in teleopPeriodic() I did:

myLidar.update();
System.out.println(myLidar.getPID());

However, 0.0 is only ever printed out to the Riolog. (I also tried having the myLidar.start() and myLidar.stop() inside of teleopInit and disabledInit respectively.

Thanks in advance,
DavisC