FRCscout.com A Different Approach to the Scouting Platform

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by murraybd

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?

Once you have loaded the match scouting page, it never needs to reload. All of the matches are cached into local storage until you reconnect to the internet. At the end of each match it tries to push to the server. If you have internet at that time, it will push it online, otherwise you can manually push it with a button that is on the prematch page and a button on the main menu.

At the Auburn Mountainview district, two teams scouted offline all day without any problems. It works surprisingly well.

So you only really need to connect to the internet when you want to push or access your data. I recommend having a single phone with bluetooth tethering and pushing a different tablet (or laptop) between each match.

[AndyBare]

One quick - foreseeable problem, what's to stop (Random guy X from Team X) from making a parent-manager account for (Team y)?

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by AndyBare

One quick - foreseeable problem, what's to stop (Random guy X from Team X) from making a parent-manager account for (Team y)?

They will get an email for every user that signs up. If they do it on accident they can just approve another team manager and then delete their own account.

If they are being malicious, both me and our lead developer are very easy to reach and we can appoint some new managers and remove the troll.

If this becomes a big issue, we can add more tools for account creation and team manager reclamation. Right now though, we are focusing on more analytics and for ways for teams to edit and manage their own data.

[blincoln1534@gm]

How do we connect to the database?

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by blincoln1534@gm

How do we connect to the database?

On the website there are two buttons.

Integrate with Tableau lets you download a connector file. Opening this connector file with Tableau connects you to the most recent data and preloads some calculated fields and pictures of the field.

Connect to Database gives you the logon credentials to connect pgadmin (a program for connecting to Postgre sql databases) to your data.

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by 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.

That would probably be the problem. It takes a bit of time to extract the data. Bluetooth tether to your phone and use a data extract to avoid having to reconnect every time you move anything. Just refresh the extract every 5 matches or something.

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by depth_Finder

That would probably be the problem. It takes a bit of time to extract the data. Bluetooth tether to your phone and use a data extract to avoid having to reconnect every time you move anything. Just refresh the extract every 5 matches or something.

Note that the organizers close down the public WiFi at many events (they did at CVR).

[depth_Finder]

Originally Posted by 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.

I'm so sorry. In the recent version of the connector file, the pit scouting data isn't included because it messed up the match scouting data.

[Carl_the_Llama]

When will this site be updated for this years game?

[Kingland093]

Bumping thread

Will FRCscout be updated for 2016?
It looks great and we would love to use it!

[terabyte128]

Hi guys,

I was the lead developer for FRC Scout last year. But I'm now graduated, and can no longer actively maintain the app.

However, from the beginning, this was intended as a community effort. The codebase is open-source and on GitHub, so if anyone is interested in helping to maintain it, please let me know. We are currently in talks with other local teams from the Seattle area to find ways of managing the server-side components of the app, but any code contributions would be much appreciated as well.

Source code for 2015 app
Fork for 2016 (wip)

Please let me know if you have other ideas for contributing. You can also email sam@ingrahamrobotics.org.