Limelight Setup Help

Hi, I’m a newer programmer, and yet I’m ironically the most experience on the team. We have been using Limelight 3 in past years and will continue to do so. I am setting up a new Drive/Programming laptop and need to know what I need to install in order to effectively use Limelight with AprilTags and functioning as a vision camera with the WPI Shuffleboard. Thank you for the help!

This will get you started with Limelight on a new pc.
You need to pick the latest firmware for the model you have and download it the follow the flashing and configuration procedure here

For April Tag use, you should also download the 2025 field map from the downloads page and upload it to the camera

https://downloads.limelightvision.io/models/frc2025.fmap

You can the read through all the Limelight documentation and search this forum for similar questions.

For the actual programming part, make sure you Limelight Helpers

How to read .fmap files?

Open it using the LimeLight Map Builder Tool.