SmartDashboard with CommandBasedRobot Template

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Originally Posted by CardcaptorRLH85

2) Create a SmartDashboardOutput Command. (This is what I was doing before posting this topic.)
Problem: It 'Requires' every Subsystem that I want output from and I'm worried that those requirements (and the interrupts that they will cause) will stop the robot from functioning correctly.

You don't have to "require" the subsystems. If all you are doing is reading from them, it is fine. Because the Command extends CommandBase, you have access to the subsystem. the only thing that requires() does is stop other commands that require the subsystem because you are ostensibly going to affect the subsystems outputs.

TL;DR: If you are using a subsystem as read-only it is probably safe not to require it, AFAIK.