Camera Lag After the Mandatory Updates

[cmh0114]

Our team solved this by downloading a custom Dashboard and using that instead. It removed a few of the graphs that were included in the latest update, but we didn't use those anyways, and we now have almost live video feed, which is amazing.

[Elean Atencio]

Originally Posted by cmh0114

Our team solved this by downloading a custom Dashboard and using that instead. It removed a few of the graphs that were included in the latest update, but we didn't use those anyways, and we now have almost live video feed, which is amazing.

how do you download a custom Dashboard?. Our team is having a tough time with camera lag. Before the update it was like 2 seconds but after the update it went up to 5 seconds. All we are doing with the camera is calling the getinstance in the constructor.

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by Elean Atencio

how do you download a custom Dashboard?. Our team is having a tough time with camera lag. Before the update it was like 2 seconds but after the update it went up to 5 seconds. All we are doing with the camera is calling the getinstance in the constructor.

To use a custom dashboard, you can either write one yourself (in LabVIEW) or download someone else's custom one. I believe the one the poster above you was referring to was this. To install it, take the files in the zip folder and copy them to C:\Program Files\FRC Dashboard (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!!!). It should automatically load the new dashboard when driver station is run.

[Mark McLeod]

How to Create Your Own Dashboard:

1. Exit the Driver account to close everything (Setup tab -> Exit)
2. Login to the Developer Account
3. Use LabVIEW and create a new Dashboard project.
4. You'll then need to create an exe
   1. Right click on Build Specifications -> New -> Application (EXE)
   2. In the Popup:
      1. "target filename" - change the name to Dashboard.exe
      2. Change the Destination Directory to "C:\Program Files\FRC Dashboard"
   3. Tell it where to begin:
      1. In the left list click on "Source Files"
      2. Click on "Dashboard Main.vi"
      3. Click on the right pointing arrow that will highlight
      4. You should see Dashboard Main appear on the right hand side under "Startup VIs"
   4. Click on "Build" at the bottom to create your exe
5. Login to the Driver account to start up the new dashboard and see if it works.

[Jon Stratis]

We've customized our dashboard a bit as well, and we even have our own custom camera code. It was pretty cool Sunday night sitting in the programming room watching people work on the robot.

[rath358]

Turn off automatic error logging on the robot.

search for this thread to see how:
"Turning off automatic error logging in LabVIEW may improve loop timing "
(no link so this appears faster)