Following various YouTube videos to set up differential drive. To be honest I don’t know if the image is enough for people who know what they are doing to see my issue, but the code builds after simply naming/creating the four motors. I start to get errors when doing the .follow command. Originally tried the “MotorControllerGroup” and it states “deprecated” use “PWM…, if CAN ‘their method’”. Everywhere I read, including the CTRE documentation, says .follow works for VictorSPX. What am I doing wrong? I don’t know anything about Java, just been blindly googling/youtubing/navigating the WPIlib to try and create what we need.
.follow() is a valid VictorSPX call, the error you’re getting is because you are starting a new declaration with the word private in front of it.
// Declare and instantiate the motor controllers
private VictorSPX rightBackMotor = new VictorSPX(0)
private VictorSPX rightFront = new VictorSPX(1)
// Tell the right front motor, to follow the right back motor
rightFront.follow(rightBackMotor)
I tried w/ and without “private” prior to posting, both gave me issues. Is there an import that should be coming in when I use .follow? Although I have both the v6 and v5 phoenix libraries imported, for whatever reason even when I was setting up the motor controllers I had to type in the import to get them to be recognized.
Can you share your current code? Preferably as a link to github or similar.
The call to .follow() can’t be at the class scope. You need to put that in a function (likely your constructor)
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