FRCscout.com A Different Approach to the Scouting Platform

[zblackwo]

Originally Posted by depth_Finder

I made a quick walk-through to find the local storage and posted it to Imgur. Here is a link to the album: http://imgur.com/gallery/lvNY8/

If you want to make an add-on for your browser to use this raw data, be my guest.

If you have bluetooth though, you should consider just tethering your devices to the internet with bluetooth. It's what we do at competitions. As long as you have even one bluetooth enabled internet device, you are set.

While sending the data can work on very sketchy connections, for analyzing the data in Tableau, I strongly recommend USB tethering to your phone to minimize the chance of dropping a connection. Our database is getting pretty big so having a faster, more reliable internet connection is your best friend.

Please PM me if you have any more questions or if there is any way I can help you out for your specific case.



Happy Scouting!

Quinn

Thanks for the help! I eventually just used a phone as a mobile hotspot, and was able to get the data that way. Unfortunately, I had to borrow another person's phone, as mine doesn't allow me to make a hotspot. I'll have to try using bluetooth tethering.

[YAK'ker]

this looks great - we brought it to our members at our team meeting today and they were all "finally, we get a chance to be involved in an easy way!"

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

[Jaykus]

Thanks, my team started using bluetooth tethering to scout at Buckeye Regional. We submitted pit scouting data but we can't seem to access it from Tableau. It appears on the Website but whenever we download to Tableau nothing from Buckeye Regional appears. I've tried refreshing and redownloading. Any ideas? Thanks a ton.

[Jaykus]

Update: Instead of Downloading the data, I connected to the database from Tableau and it now shows everything. Still not sure what happened, but it's working.

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by Jaykus

Update: Instead of Downloading the data, I connected to the database from Tableau and it now shows everything. Still not sure what happened, but it's working.

I'm so sorry. In the recent version of the connector file, the pit scouting data isn't included because it messed up the match scouting data.

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by zblackwo

Thanks for the help! I eventually just used a phone as a mobile hotspot, and was able to get the data that way. Unfortunately, I had to borrow another person's phone, as mine doesn't allow me to make a hotspot. I'll have to try using bluetooth tethering.

You will have to do bluetooth tethering at most venues including Champs. We use that method with our tablet-based system.

[Navid Shafa]

Of the 60-some teams that used the system this year, it looks like 24 of them will be competing at World's (With at least one team on every division!)

One of the best things about this new system is that it makes joint-scouting and pooling resources a lot easier. Hope this helps teams find others to work with:

Team	Division
360	Archimedes
2605	Archimedes
5667	Archimedes
1296	Carson
2471	Carson
2601	Carson
4911	Carver
5402	Carver
1305	Curie
2594	Curie
3663	Curie
4061	Curie
191	Galileo
492	Galileo
1002	Galileo
2168	Galileo
2990	Galileo
3787	Galileo
987	Hopper
2614	Hopper
2830	Hopper
1983	Newton
1225	Tesla
2399	Tesla

[CardcaptorRLH85]

Do you plan to update this program for the 2016 season? I've been looking at it and I like the idea for our team if it gets updated. Thanks for all your hard work.

[Carl_the_Llama]

When will this site be updated for this years game?

[Kingland093]

Bumping thread

Will FRCscout be updated for 2016?
It looks great and we would love to use it!

[terabyte128]

Hi guys,

I was the lead developer for FRC Scout last year. But I'm now graduated, and can no longer actively maintain the app.

However, from the beginning, this was intended as a community effort. The codebase is open-source and on GitHub, so if anyone is interested in helping to maintain it, please let me know. We are currently in talks with other local teams from the Seattle area to find ways of managing the server-side components of the app, but any code contributions would be much appreciated as well.

Source code for 2015 app
Fork for 2016 (wip)

Please let me know if you have other ideas for contributing. You can also email sam@ingrahamrobotics.org.