Team 254 Presents: Cheesy Arena

[Puneet4778]

Wow, looks great! I have one question: What is the protocol for feeding video to the audience display? This is my team's first time setting up any kind of fms software and we are unaware.

Thanks!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Puneet4778

Wow, looks great! I have one question: What is the protocol for feeding video to the audience display? This is my team's first time setting up any kind of fms software and we are unaware.

Thanks!

In addition, is there a document that outlines all the hardware used at Chezy Champs? How many computers, router, etc.?

Thanks again for all the hard work.

[mrscience21]

Is there any documentation as to the network interface used to control the pedestal and hot goal lights?

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Puneet4778

What is the protocol for feeding video to the audience display? This is my team's first time setting up any kind of fms software and we are unaware.

The audience display renders the overlays on a green background (or a color of your choosing). You would then need to connect the output of this to a video mixer capable of chroma keying, to superimpose it on your video. You can use a hardware or software video mixer (such as Open Broadaster) for this.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

In addition, is there a document that outlines all the hardware used at Chezy Champs? How many computers, router, etc.?

We used one computer to run Cheesy Arena, and then one for each additional display (audience, FTA, announcer, red scoring, blue scoring, referee, red alliance stations, blue alliance stations). This page describes our networking setup, but most events can get away with a lot less.

Originally Posted by mrscience21

Is there any documentation as to the network interface used to control the pedestal and hot goal lights?

We built some custom hardware (an embedded microcontroller board plus an LED driver board) into a project box and put one at each end of the field. We'll post the specifications for that on GitHub once the guys who worked on it finish documenting it. The communication was UDP over Ethernet -- just a plain 32-byte packet containing RGB and transition time values for each of eight channels.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Thanks for the description.

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

We used one computer to run Cheesy Arena, and then one for each additional display (audience, FTA, announcer, red scoring, blue scoring, referee, red alliance stations, blue alliance stations). This page describes our networking setup, but most events can get away with a lot less.

One PC at each of the 6 alliance stations?

[NickE]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

One PC at each of the 6 alliance stations?

One at each end of the field connected to 3 USB monitors each.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by NickE

One at each end of the field connected to 3 USB monitors each.

The monitors were a nice touch - what's the model you used?

[James Tonthat]

Originally Posted by dcarr

The monitors were a nice touch - what's the model you used?

From what I saw (on the label from the back of the display), they used the AOC E1649FWU displays.

For their PC, they used some sort of Intel NUC that was attached to the display in the center alliance station.

Pretty darn slick setup.

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by James Tonthat

From what I saw (on the label from the back of the display), they used the AOC E1649FWU displays.

For their PC, they used some sort of Intel NUC that was attached to the display in the center alliance station.

Pretty darn slick setup.

Close - It was actually the E1659FWU, which adds a VESA mount and allowed us to attach the brackets which we ziptied to the player station structure.

[adammiller3122]

My one suggestion would be to make it so that the user can edit the image at the very least to make it more of a custom competition. For example, we are planning on having a mini competition that we create. It would be ideal to have that image be one of our own. Just my 2 cents.

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by adammiller3122

My one suggestion would be to make it so that the user can edit the image at the very least to make it more of a custom competition. For example, we are planning on having a mini competition that we create. It would be ideal to have that image be one of our own. Just my 2 cents.

I'm not sure if it requires a build, but it seems it was designed with your use case in mind. You should see an image file called logo or something like that, that you can do a direct swap with

[adammiller3122]

Originally Posted by lineskier

I'm not sure if it requires a build, but it seems it was designed with your use case in mind. You should see an image file called logo or something like that, that you can do a direct swap with

Thank you. I will look into that. I just put it on my personal laptop to do some testing with it. Thanks again.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by lineskier

I'm not sure if it requires a build, but it seems it was designed with your use case in mind. You should see an image file called logo or something like that, that you can do a direct swap with

Yeah, since the displays are all HTML/CSS and static images, you can change and replace stuff as you see fit to brand it for your event. The HTML will be in the /templates directory and the images will be in /static/img.