Updating the Dashboard

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Ginto8

We actually use a Command to update values to the dashboard, which, if you're calling Scheduler.getInstance().run() in both Periodic() methods, has the same effect as that TimerTask (though a different frequency). I have considered changing it to something that will send data regardless of whether the robot is enabled, but I'm loathe to change working code any more than I have to. Maybe next year.

If you call the setRunWhileDisabled method for your command and add the scheduler run to disabledPeriodic, you can run your command while disabled with minimal code changes.