Hi Teams,
I am trying to compile a list of scouting apps for both mobile and computers on either operating system. Does such a list already exist?
If it doesn’t, help me make one by sending links to scouting apps that you know of.
Hopefully, if we can get a good list, it can become a helpful source for teams just starting to make the switch.
Here are the three major mobile apps I’ve used for FRC Team data.
None of these apps allow you to input scouting notes or make individual ratings.
I’ve seen a couple teams with more full featured scouting apps but I’m not sure if they are open to the public.
Team 111 WildStang developed a scouting system this past year which we call WildRank. It requires a little more initial setup than some other apps but it’s very flexible and should be easy to adapt to new games. All of the code is public on GitHub; it’s not very well documented yet, but we’re working on that!
Android portion: https://github.com/nwalters512/wildrank-android
Desktop portion: https://github.com/nwalters512/wildrank-desktop
CD thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129763
This past year we created a scouting app for windows. Here is a link to the original thread.
Team 2052 has FRCKrawler, it was made by a student in 2013 (He graduated!)
It’s an convenient and easy app that lets you define your own metrics as well. More info can be found on http://www.team2052.com/frckrawler/
Not an “App”, it’s only tested on windows 7, 8 and some Linux systems running wine, but can run summary statistics on all collected data, do graphing, and host all data locally or on a SMB/CIFS share or SQL server if using on multiple systems. Note it is still in development and has issues, but is free to try out. (the software is signed only with my private keys and does not have a valid CA distributed certificate, so it will warn you that the publisher is unknown/untrusted)
http://centaurisoft.org/scout.html - Scouting software
http://centaurisoft.org/ssql.html - Custom easy to setup MySQL server.
Just seeing this thread…
FRC Team1073 has built a scouting application that we’ve successfully shared with other teams over the last couple of years. The system uses an Android application to collect pit and match scouting data, which is then sync’ed to a central application running on a laptop or up in the cloud. The central application is a web application that provides various reports, charts and tables based on the collected data. We have also hooked in TheBlueAlliance data feeds using their API so that we don’t redo what is already well-done by them.
Each year, we continue to improve the overall system, and everything is open-sourced through GitHub. Send me a PM if you want more information and I am more than happy to help you get started. At a minimum I can point you to our running system so that you can check it out.
Ken (aka RoboScout)
Mentor - FRC Team 1073
are there any good apps for the windows OS?
My previous post has a link to another thread where the download link is to our team’s app that we used on Surfaces.
Some links for TBA Apps:
Google Play Link (source)
An iOS version is also in the works.
We’d love for anyone with the know-how to join us and help make TBA even better on mobile.
Another one of my side projects actually implements this note taking. It’s called FRC Notebook, and it will automatically download the schedule for an event, and allow you to take notes on matches and teams competing. I wrote it specifically for my use as a CSA (keep track of things that break, etc), but it can also be used as a scouting tool. Notes you take are saved and will show up the next time that team competes. I plan on doing a huge overhaul for Android L, cleaning up data sources, and adding sharing/synchronization/backup of notes between devices and users. That will probably happen in December over my winter break.