Dashboard-Driver Station Help Please

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by heydowns

The vision example is obviously broken with respect to the Watchdog usage. It clearly enables the watchdog, sets expiration to some time (let's say t seconds, since I don't have it in front of me) and then proceeds to sleep significantly longer than that expiration (t + x).
You will always get a watchdog not fed at the start of this example if left unmodified.

I do understand your frustration with the quality of the examples.

But it still feeds it

Originally Posted by 2010ImageDemo

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// set watchdog
GetWatchdog().SetExpiration(1.0);

Wait(3.0);

// keep track of the previous joystick trigger value
bool lastTrigger = false;

// loop getting images from the camera and finding targets
printf("Starting operator control loop\n");
while (IsOperatorControl()) {
bool trigger;
GetWatchdog().Feed();
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