Match Recording Idea

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by Tanner

How exactly did you try to get the start/stop signals? I know it'd be hard to do that without any official signal from the FMS (which would be uber-nice and make everything easy).

All I did was request some sort of start/stop signal from FMS that I could use. I didn't specify any implementation, as long as the implementation had the signal in it, trying to make things as easy as possible for FIRST. As Tom said, FIRST is pretty conservative about allowing people access to their systems and things didn't progress past that.

Originally Posted by TomBot

From the other point of view, if you look at how much effort it would take to securely open up the FMS to outsiders vs. the amount of people who would take advantage of it, it doesn't make sense to sink the time and money into it.

All it takes is a RS232 output from FMS that sends a simple character string saying "go" and "stop" or something like that. Any more data embedded in the command would be gravy, but not needed to do the heavy lifting. Cut the write line so it's read only, and it's pretty secure... I'd guess that it would only take an hour or so to implement it this way on their end, and would be all that's needed. Maybe next year.