ZomB Dashboard 0.6: Beta testers wanted

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by slavik262

I don't know how to interpret that any other way besides "a dashboard is not allowed to communicate with the robot during a competition match."

That answer contradicts their answer a week earlier which said UDP was blocked but TCP was not. http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=14284

Maybe the GDC needs another technical member (Remember the question in 2009 where they didn't even know what a port was?). Or, they can just provide more documentation about the robot/field/fms communication.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by slavik262

I don't know how to interpret that any other way besides "a dashboard is not allowed to communicate with the robot during a competition match."

I don't understand how you come to that conclusion. It says you may use ports that are configured for your use. One of those is the TCP port allocated for video on the dashboard. This TCP connection is inherently bidirectional. Therefore you can send data to the robot during a competition.

-Joe

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

That answer contradicts their answer a week earlier which said UDP was blocked but TCP was not. http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=14284

I don't see this as contradictory. You are allowed to use any UDP ports you like during development, but not during competition. This is also true of TCP... you may use any TCP ports you like during development, but during competition, you may only use the video TCP port.

-Joe