[AaronS]

Looking for ideas on a camera/driver station/field comms issue we had at our last match.

We use an Axis M1011W (with the wireless turned off). We had a repeated issues on the field in matches that the camera feed was not available in the driver station window nor to our python code (using openCV) on the driver station computer. In 2 days of matches we had success getting the image feed back to the driver station only 4 times. However, when it wasn’t working on the field we could ping the camera from the driver station as well as open a webpage to the camera but the live image was not displayed. After the matches we were provided an opportunity to test with the field comms and we had 100% success in 6 connections getting the feed to show up. We confirmed we were not anywhere near the bandwidth limitation (<1 vs 7) and we started up in several driver positions. We were also 100% successful running tethered and connecting via a router and radio provided on the practice field.

We have the camera, drive station and roborio all with static addresses. The ports for the camera were configured per the camera tool and checked against the documentation. It is interesting (odd?) that the issue was correlated with when we were on the field with the other robots.

We participated in a week zero event with the same camera and while we didn’t have our python vision code running, the team was able to get the image back for the drivers to use directly.

Clearly is was frustrating to the team that we didn’t have the problem except in matches so we weren’t able to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. We worked with the FTAs and they were not able to determine what the issue is either We have another match in 2 weeks and we don’t have a way to identify and resolve what the issue was.

Any thoughts on what we were experiencing ?