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Re: Switching between two webcams on the dashboard

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Originally Posted by bvisness View Post
Glad you guys got it all working! Just a piece of advice from a former driver, though – you will probably not be looking at your driver station laptop nearly as much as you think you will. Driving is stressful and dangerous and it's hard to tear your eyes away from the field and down to your computer.

That's my experience anyway. Just something to keep in mind!
Thanks for the advice! I was the driver for our team for 2 years, and I can concur, however , with how little visibility there is on the field this year, it will be difficult to see what's in front of your robot at times (e.g. a boulder behind the drawbridge).

We have tested the latency on the camera over wifi from the robot (not through the FMS, so it might vary), and it isn't that bad. We calculated it to be only about 90-100ms lag. We had our driver drive it a bit ONLY looking at the webcam image, and he said he could drive it just fine.
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