[Mark McLeod]

We can't stream video back this year.
FIRST wants to monitor the bandwidth contention with the new WiFi system for this season.
We are only permitted to use the dashboard packets to send the DS data and that limits us to less than a 1000 bytes of data 50 times a second. Not enough for an image anywhere close to real time or at full resolution.


From Team Update #5

General Notes
Communication via the Field Management System Every time the Driver Station and ROBOT communicate, a 1024-byte packet is sent between them. 40 bytes are reserved for use by the Field Management System. The remaining 984 bytes are available for teams to put in any of the user data that they want. The team can choose to send whatever they want in those 984 bytes. Video is typically transmitted from the ROBOT by using the software ports specifically set up to support video throughput. This year, the Field Management System will not pass data sent through that port during a match (to ensure adequate system performance during competition events, until the new system is better characterized in actual competition settings). If a team really wants to transmit images from the camera back to the Driver Station during a competition, they can decompose the video frame and pass it as user data in the available 984 bytes per packet. However, the resulting throughput of the video will likely result in a frame rate so slow that it is not particularly useful.