FRC GamePlan Strategy App

[gblake]

Originally Posted by The Doctor

T4 only disallows 802.11 networks... Not to mention that the FMS uses 5ghz wifi and bluetooth is 2.4.

Folks,

Just in case there is any confusion ...

In earlier posts, when I wrote that you should not [plan to] send anything from the stands to the field - I had in mind the restrictions imposed by G29 and T26-1.

Those two forbid creating even the possibility of communication to the field from anywhere else. They don't care what physical layer protocol (Bluetooth, WiFi, whatever) might be involved. Their point is that no devices capable of communicating are allowed. And ... If no communication devices are allowed at the field, planning to communicate from the stands to the field would require violating a rule.

I'm being a little imprecise when I use the term "field" to paraphrase the terms actually in the rules, but in practical terms, when you are leaving the pre-match queue, it's time put all communication devices away. At that time, if you haven't drawn, printed, or memorized your shared plan, I don't think that you will be allowed to use a loose phone or tablet to display it.

If I'm wrong, and there is a way to display a plan on any typical general-purpose computing device, please let me/us know. I presume that using a tablet, laptop, phone, etc. would require convincing the referees both that all the communication capabilities on the device had been successfully disabled before the device reached the field, and that those capabilities would unambiguously remain disabled while the device was at the field.

Am i overlooking some other pertinent rule?

Blake.