How send ultrasonic sensor data to driver station?

[TimTheGreat]

Originally Posted by team-4480

I wrote some code that would interpret the distance and then display a red, yellow or green light on the remote machine. I saw in the link you sent me(robotpy one), you could import networktables so I was wondering if I could use that in the program I wrote, not needing to go through the smartdashboard? In summary, I just want to use the info from the sensors to input in my wxpython program. Thanks!

Ok, if you just want to use the info from the sensors, then you just need to use self.ultrasonic.getVoltage(). You don't have to go through SmartDashboard, but for getting the data of the ultrasonic (what the value is when the robot is 5 inches from the bin, for example), it would be wise to just put that value in SDB and write it down.