Live Scouting Data Transfer

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Roboshant

Also, I am pretty sure blue tooth is illegal.

What rule makes it illegal, that did not make it illegal last year (when it was legal and widely used)?

[Roboshant]

Idk, one of my mentors told me.... might not be true.....

[logank013]

Originally Posted by EricH

What rule makes it illegal, that did not make it illegal last year (when it was legal and widely used)?

Last year, we used Bluetooth for our data transfer. It shouldn't be illegal.

[toastergod]

Don't most competitions have rules against wireless communication? Or does bluetooth not fall under this?

[peterl]

Section 5.5.1 T4:
"Teams may not set up their own 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz or 5GHz) wireless communication (e.g.
access points or ad-hoc networks) in the venue.
A wireless hot spot created by a cellular device is considered an
access point."

Bluetooth is 802.15. To my knowledge, the manual doesn't mention anything about Bluetooth in the stands or pits for scouting or networking purposes
Source: Wikipedia

[Farbod909]

MorScout 2.0 may be what you're looking for. It can be used offline or online so you have that freedom in case internet is not working in the arena. Also, you can fully customize your scouting forms so you're not restricted to team 1515's scouting strategy (however, that will still be an option).

Here is the full description:
Team 1515 MorTorq is developing the next iteration of our scouting application, MorScout, from last year. Our scouting application is designed to be run without any setup, meaning your clients will require an internet connection to login and periodically to sync to the server. MorScout is designed to run primarily on Android and iOS, but also web browsers. Each FRC team can create accounts for their own scouters. Our application is designed for both match scouting, as well as pit scouting. Each team can create custom forms for their scouters to fill out, so teams are not limited by just our scouting ideas! Once scouting reports have been made, team members can view all reports from their team for specific matches and/or teams. Additionally, scouters will have the option of making their reports public or private. Private means that only the scouters’ team will be able to review that report. By making a report public, any team using MorScout will be able to view the report, allowing each FRC team to assist in every team’s scouting.

Although MorScout is currently in heavy development, you can view our progress at our Github pages. Our goal is to finish MorScout by Week 1 of FRC competitions.
Server: https://github.com/mortorqrobotics/morscout-server
Web client: https://github.com/mortorqrobotics/morscout-web
Android: https://github.com/mortorqrobotics/morscout-andorid
iOS: https://github.com/mortorqrobotics/morscout-ios

Last year’s version of MorScout is also available here:
https://github.com/mortorqrobotics/morscout-2015

Don't hesitate to contact me at rafezyfarbod@gmail.com

[Adisai1]

On 226, I am also working on a scouting app for this year. Our app makes use of sending scouting data over SMS, and will have a component for sending scouting data directly to the drive team.

MasterFRCScouter: https://github.com/hammerhead226/MasterFRCScouter