FRCscout.com A Different Approach to the Scouting Platform

[April_robo]

Great website. Just made an account for my team. Will have to try this out at Waterford this weekend.

[depth_Finder]

Hi everyone! So I wanted to post some visualizations and usage statistics I made with the frcscout.com database.

Please check it out!
https://public.tableau.com/profile/p...botRoleScatter

Disclaimer:

• All data is collected by scouts (not just my own team) and therefore might not reflect the true results.
• It has all of the data currently (8:00 PM PST 3/7/2015) in the database. I will refresh it and upload it on Monday to reflect this weekend's scouting.

Also, shout out to team 360 who scouted the Auburn Mountainview regional almost entirely offline (at one point a scout went 23 matches in a row without pushing data).

[zblackwo]

I'm trying to access the database through Tableau, and getting the following error:
See attachment 1

I'm using the file downloaded from frcscout for the login information.
See attachment 2

Any ideas on why I can't access the data?

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by zblackwo

I'm trying to access the database through Tableau, and getting the following error:
See attachment 1

I'm using the file downloaded from frcscout for the login information.
See attachment 2

Any ideas on why I can't access the data?

Looking at your logs, I think it is mostly that you lost connection during authentication. Try restarting your wifi and connecting again. It is working for me and our other developer right now so I think it might be on your side. Your logon information is correct.

Also, we provide a connector file for Tableau that should handle the connection and give a few pre-made calculated fields to help you get started.

Just to make sure, you downloaded the PGSQL driver right?

[zblackwo]

Yes, I do have the driver, and I am using that file for the connection. I'm trying to use the public wifi available at the event, and that may be the problem.

[Jaykus]

To the owners of frcscout.com:
First of all, love your website, kudos!
At competitions, the data is stored locally, and I was wondering if there was a way to access these files so that they could be sent over bluetooth. That would be a good way to get around the wifi problem at competitions.
To everyone:
Does anyone know an app or website where this could be done? We're looking for any scouting system that can send data over bluetooth or anything that could get around the wifi issue.

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by Jaykus

To the owners of frcscout.com:
First of all, love your website, kudos!
At competitions, the data is stored locally, and I was wondering if there was a way to access these files so that they could be sent over bluetooth. That would be a good way to get around the wifi problem at competitions.
To everyone:
Does anyone know an app or website where this could be done? We're looking for any scouting system that can send data over bluetooth or anything that could get around the wifi issue.

I made a quick walk-through to find the local storage and posted it to Imgur. Here is a link to the album: http://imgur.com/gallery/lvNY8/

If you want to make an add-on for your browser to use this raw data, be my guest.

If you have bluetooth though, you should consider just tethering your devices to the internet with bluetooth. It's what we do at competitions. As long as you have even one bluetooth enabled internet device, you are set.

While sending the data can work on very sketchy connections, for analyzing the data in Tableau, I strongly recommend USB tethering to your phone to minimize the chance of dropping a connection. Our database is getting pretty big so having a faster, more reliable internet connection is your best friend.

Please PM me if you have any more questions or if there is any way I can help you out for your specific case.



Happy Scouting!

Quinn

[zblackwo]

Originally Posted by depth_Finder

I made a quick walk-through to find the local storage and posted it to Imgur. Here is a link to the album: http://imgur.com/gallery/lvNY8/

If you want to make an add-on for your browser to use this raw data, be my guest.

If you have bluetooth though, you should consider just tethering your devices to the internet with bluetooth. It's what we do at competitions. As long as you have even one bluetooth enabled internet device, you are set.

While sending the data can work on very sketchy connections, for analyzing the data in Tableau, I strongly recommend USB tethering to your phone to minimize the chance of dropping a connection. Our database is getting pretty big so having a faster, more reliable internet connection is your best friend.

Please PM me if you have any more questions or if there is any way I can help you out for your specific case.



Happy Scouting!

Quinn

Thanks for the help! I eventually just used a phone as a mobile hotspot, and was able to get the data that way. Unfortunately, I had to borrow another person's phone, as mine doesn't allow me to make a hotspot. I'll have to try using bluetooth tethering.

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by zblackwo

Thanks for the help! I eventually just used a phone as a mobile hotspot, and was able to get the data that way. Unfortunately, I had to borrow another person's phone, as mine doesn't allow me to make a hotspot. I'll have to try using bluetooth tethering.

You will have to do bluetooth tethering at most venues including Champs. We use that method with our tablet-based system.

[Navid Shafa]

Of the 60-some teams that used the system this year, it looks like 24 of them will be competing at World's (With at least one team on every division!)

One of the best things about this new system is that it makes joint-scouting and pooling resources a lot easier. Hope this helps teams find others to work with:

Team	Division
360	Archimedes
2605	Archimedes
5667	Archimedes
1296	Carson
2471	Carson
2601	Carson
4911	Carver
5402	Carver
1305	Curie
2594	Curie
3663	Curie
4061	Curie
191	Galileo
492	Galileo
1002	Galileo
2168	Galileo
2990	Galileo
3787	Galileo
987	Hopper
2614	Hopper
2830	Hopper
1983	Newton
1225	Tesla
2399	Tesla

[CardcaptorRLH85]

Do you plan to update this program for the 2016 season? I've been looking at it and I like the idea for our team if it gets updated. Thanks for all your hard work.

[Jaykus]

Thanks, my team started using bluetooth tethering to scout at Buckeye Regional. We submitted pit scouting data but we can't seem to access it from Tableau. It appears on the Website but whenever we download to Tableau nothing from Buckeye Regional appears. I've tried refreshing and redownloading. Any ideas? Thanks a ton.

[Jaykus]

Update: Instead of Downloading the data, I connected to the database from Tableau and it now shows everything. Still not sure what happened, but it's working.

[YAK'ker]

this looks great - we brought it to our members at our team meeting today and they were all "finally, we get a chance to be involved in an easy way!"

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

[murraybd]

Originally Posted by depth_Finder

Teams 4030 Null Pointer Exception and 1983 Skunk Works are proud to present our scouting platform, http://FRCscout.com/. Designed to be user-friendly and easy to implement, our platform includes these following main features:
[list][*]Internet Connection: The platform is designed to work around spotty internet connection and the lack of Wi-Fi at competitions. Connect to the internet once to load the entire scouting process, leave the connection and scout an unlimited number of matches, then connect to the internet again to push your local data to the database.

Could you explain some more about how it possible to scout the matches when offline? Where is the data stored what do you, as a user, to submit the data to the server?