Magicbot and the execute() method

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I’m doing some testing right now and trying to understand the execute() method with the magicbot framework. I should also mention that I’m simulating this tonight since I don’t have a robot in front of me, but am hoping to teach this to some students this weekend. I’m testing this with the LEDs and have the relevant code here:

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This code works if I am in autonomous/teleop with the sim. However, I need to include self.leds.execute() to get them to work if the robot is disabled. I just set them to be enabled in robotPeriodic() and don’t have to call the execute() method for autonomous or teleop and was wondering why that’s needed for the disabled method?

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This appears to be because the execute method is only called in _enabled_periodic.

https://robotpy.readthedocs.io/projects/utilities/en/stable/_modules/magicbot/magicrobot.html

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Thanks for pointing that out. That makes a lot of sense now that I see the source code.

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