CANBus VictorSPX Simulation in Robotpy

[Just_A_Bored_Fella]

Hello There!

I’m currently trying to simulate our intake system via WPILIB’s simulation GUI.
The drivetrain and gyro code in pyhsics.py is not original (Can’t thank @virtuald for the #6367 github repository enough!).

The problem is that I can’t see whether the other subsystems’ motors are working or not. I can’t get “belt_upper_sim” to show up on The “other devices” section on the GUI, unlike #6367’s code.

Here’s my code:
python-qubit.zip (11.7 KB)

Thanks for taking the time to help!
-Berke from Qubit Robotics #7439

[virtuald]

Your belt_upper_sim is a DCMotorSim, which won’t show up in ‘other devices’.

[Just_A_Bored_Fella]

How can I monitor it’s output?

[virtuald]

In our code, the output of the motor sim is used to control the mechanism2d objects.

If you just want to see the output value, you can either use print(belt_upper_sim.getAngularVelocity() or put it on NetworkTables.

You can use SimDevice to add your own device to the “Other Devices” panel, and then put the sim output as a value for that device.