Small FMS timer bug

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

Anyone have a more elegant solution?

Joe J.

Make your driver do 100 pushups every time he forgets.

-John

[Jimmy Cao]

Originally Posted by JVN

Make your driver do 100 pushups every time he forgets.

-John

You've been spending too much time around Paul...

Anyways, this is an interesting issue... never considered that time would be off... Its curious how (supposedly) this bug was introduced in 2009, and not detected until now. As has already been stated, maybe the best route at this point is to let this bug live its life for the remainder of this year, and kill it next year.

[Rob]

This is very interesting. I know that a problem similar to this existed in 2004 as I personally timed matches at the CT regional in Hartford that year.

The 2004 peoblem seems to have been a bit worse as each match was an unperdictable length (some longer and some shorter than 2 minutes, with some off by as many as 12 seconds!)

I would say that if the timing is off in a consistent manner this is less of a problem that is matches have inconsistent length.

I wonder how the FMS calculates time...(not a programmer so that may be a rhetorical question...)

Rob

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Rob

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I wonder how the FMS calculates time...(not a programmer so that may be a rhetorical question...)

Rob

Incorrectly.

[Alex Cormier]

If it's always a consistent extra 5 seconds, I have no problem with it. It gives the students 5 more seconds of play each match and maybe win.

[DavidGitz]

I don't know if this is unrelated or not, but when you start a practice match on the Classmate, about 5 seconds (just remembering here) is elapsed before it enables the robot for autonomous.

[Greg McKaskle]

They are probably not related because the DS practice mode was written without knowledge of or access to the code of the FMS. The practice mode defaults to having a five second countdown -- the DS ticks down the seconds, before it starts the sound effect and the auto period.

Is that the five seconds you are commenting on? If so, you can change it in the setup tab.

Greg McKaskle

[DavidGitz]

Yes it is, thanks Greg.