Existing Scouting Apps

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I posted this to the general forum last night; probably should have posted it in this scouting sub-forum.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=154642

Redshift/4048 has released our scouting app from 2016 on github and it's available to anyone who wants to play with it. The code consists of 2 parts. Part 1 is an Android app that allows a scout to enter data on a tablet, chromebook or phone (if you have sharp eyes!). Part 2 uses bluetooth to download that data onto a Windows laptop where the data is stored into a database and retrieved by Tableau for analysis.

The code we released is for 2016 so it will need to be adjusted for 2017. But we figured each team has their own needs so it's up to them to decide what's important in their game play. Making changes involves changing the user interface on the Android app (what data to log from a match) and changing the corresponding database schema to reflect this data. The laptop code is written in Java and it uses mySQL for its database. We haven't ported it ourselves for 2017 yet which is why we released last year's code only.

The nice thing about this setup is that scouting data is very quickly transferred to the laptop, there are no cables, the tablets have decent battery life so only the laptop needs to be kept charged. And best of all, Android tablets are cheap - we bought Amazon Fire tablets during the holidays 2 years ago for about $50 each. You can get cheaper but we wanted a name-brand in case something went wrong (and students are torture on devices!).

And don't forget that there's a free license for Tableau too.