custom dashboard questions

[byteit101]

my ZomB dashboard is nice if you are using Java or C++ (You can use LabVIEW too, its just a little more complex because I don't have bindings yet)
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/sfmain/....zombdashboard
go to file releases, Nightly Unstable, 0.6b1 to download
(partial) documentation available under documents, complete guide to the ZomB Dashboard (not complete yet, but enough that you should be able to get it working)

[randalcr]

Originally Posted by byteit101

my ZomB dashboard is nice if you are using Java or C++ (You can use LabVIEW too, its just a little more complex because I don't have bindings yet)
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/sfmain/....zombdashboard
go to file releases, Nightly Unstable, 0.6b1 to download
(partial) documentation available under documents, complete guide to the ZomB Dashboard (not complete yet, but enough that you should be able to get it working)

Thanks, I have been looking at a thread about this and looks like it'd be something to look at. so we'll try it.

[apalrd]

Put a control on the VI and run it. Whenever you hit the RUN button in Robot Main, you can adjust the params. in real time (and use the cool graphs and such) with almost no work at all. Just place the control, and connect it on the block diagram. LabVIEW will take care of the rest. When you get it where you want it, right-click and select Data Operations -> Set Data as Default to keep it there. When you build and flash the robot, all of your params. will still be accessible from the code, so you can leave them there and use them for PID tuning and whatnot.

[demosthenes2k8]

To expand on what bot190 said, in order for the throttle value to be in the proper range, you'd have to do (throttle+1)/2, as the throttle is from -1 to 1

[randalcr]

thanks for all the great tips guys! and does anyone know how to change the background color of the decorations, like the ones on the dashboard?

[Mark McLeod]

View -> Tools Palette

[randalcr]

Thanks

[randalcr]

I have gotten a custom dashboard made and it opens with the FRC driver station too. Though i haven't gotten to test it with the robot yet, I do have a question, and that is how can i get it to automatically adjust to fit the screen like the default one did?

[Mark McLeod]

From the front panel choose File -> VI Properties
then Category -> Window Run-Time Position
and maybe Window Size depending on what you want to do.

[randalcr]

Thanks Mark, your a great help!

[Robototes2412]

How easy would it be to hack a python version of the zomb protocol?

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by Robototes2412

How easy would it be to hack a python version of the zomb protocol?

I don't know python, but it should be fairly easy, just write something that can parse the Dashboard packets
protocol documentation here: http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/wiki/do...i/ZomBProtocol under Native Source - DBPkt

basically (there are a few escape characters), listen on UDP port 1165, extract the ZomB Data from it (ex. @@ZomB:|name=value|name2=value2|:ZomB@@), and make it give a control its associated value (ex. give control 'name' the value 'value' and control 'name2' the value 'value2')

If you find any typos, please tell me

EDIT: and it wouldn't be a hack, it would be an alternate implementation