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Re: Possibility of using a Bluetooth camera on FRC 2017 Steamworks robot

Wait, did you try to connect to the Axis camera directly over wifi? That's the way I read your post, and if so, that'd definitely cause issues and is actually prohibited by the manual. Connecting an ethernet cable from your camera to the robot radio would resolve any spottiness.

If you mean the wifi connection from the robot to the FMS was spotty, you're not getting around that no matter what camera you use; all communication with the robot is mandated by the manual to go through the FMS (and no other form of wireless communication is allowed either, so I don't know where you programmers heard of teams using bluetooth). If this was your issue, you may have been hitting the FMS bandwidth cap. Try hooking up the Axis camera again and look at the bandwidth use on the dashboard. If you're approaching 7mbs, you're going to have issues on the actual field.

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