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Re: Can you programically retrieve match number?

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
The DS sends a bunch of info the the dashboard. I don't think SD currently decodes it and makes it available, but the LV dashboard, top loop, makes a call to Retrieve Status Info. That VI has an output called Power and Errors. Kind of an odd combo, but anyway, in the same cluster is match info. I have never actually tested it at an event, but I suspect that the data will be in there. You could write it to your own file on the DB computer, or you can put it into Network Tables and give it to the robot.

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Thank you for this! This really needs to be fully documented. I think we are using some of it now but I believe it isn't fully documented about how to do it.
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