[Greg McKaskle]

This sounds cool. There is a similar function, by the way, which was released a few years ago but doesn't get discussed much.

The default dashboard has its own logging feature, independent from the DS logs. It is for recording dashboard data and video. The green arrow, red rectangle and red circle are the controls for this feature.

If you click the red circle, the dashboard will start recording to an AVI and a binary file. Green arrow opens a floating window for selecting a log file, choosing playback speed, a scrub slider, and some rename/delete options. Red square stops both recording and playback. The data plays back into the original dashboard. It isn't stored in JSON, but the source is provided.

The whole point of this feature was to give teams more data to analyze what happened following a match. But we didn't want to turn it on by default because very low-end laptops weren't always up to the task.

Anyway, whether logging on the robot or the DS, data about the robot's performance is key to good design iteration and performance. So, good to see additional options for logging.

Greg McKaskle