The New FRCKrawler Scouting System

[Jon Stratis]

Any chance you guys will have this at MRI this setup weekend for other teams to check out? Obviously, purchasing a bunch of tablets for scouting is a big expenditure, but probably worth it if we like the scouting app!

[rxgman123]

So I'm trying to use the app on my gs3 and I can't get to put in any of the data until I set up the host and I just want to try it on only one device. Is this possible or will I need at least 2 devices?

[charlie.drummer]

Originally Posted by rxgman123

So I'm trying to use the app on my gs3 and I can't get to put in any of the data until I set up the host and I just want to try it on only one device. Is this possible or will I need at least 2 devices?

The app is split into two main parts. The administrator part, and the scout part. The admin part is accessed by tapping the "Administer" button on the home screen, and the scout part is accessed by tapping the "Join" or "Continue" buttons. You can use the admin part with only one device, but to see the scout part you would need a second device. You can still enter pit and match data with the admin part. Just make a new game, event, team, robot, and add the robot to the event. You can give your game a few metrics too. Then go Games>Events>Match Data and you will be able to add match data. Similarly you can edit robots by going Teams>Robots>Edit Robot, or Games>Events>Robots. Hope that clears a few things up for you. I will be releasing a PDF about how to use FRCKrawler in much greater detail in the next month or so.

[pntbll1313]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Any chance you guys will have this at MRI this setup weekend for other teams to check out? Obviously, purchasing a bunch of tablets for scouting is a big expenditure, but probably worth it if we like the scouting app!

Jon,

We did not plan on using this at MRI because we have not shown this to all our new members yet. We have around 20 rookies and we have barely introduced the game and rules, so we thought it would be a little much to have them entering data about a game they don't completely understand. This first one will be more of an introduction to scouting. I believe we were maybe going to try to do it at the Prior Lake Minne Mini regional though if you were going to that.

[Jon Stratis]

I'm sure I'll be down at Prior Lake... I wasn't even necessarily thinking about seeing it in use at MRI, but maybe just having a tablet or two on hand so we can sit off to the side and play with for a bit to see if we like it. The team's had a good, workable spreadsheet for several years now that's done us a lot of good, so we wouldn't really want to take a risk on something we weren't sure on!