NavX Library 2023

Technical Sensors
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Does anyone know when the NavX will be updated for 2023 WPILib? The latest version appears to still be from 2022.

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There will be an update. Likely this week, the last I heard. Don’t know much more. Potentially we could get the update from Studica (who owns Kauai now), but not sure if they are making one.

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Studica had a beta build

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we’ve been using an unofficial 2023 version for now: https://github.com/rzblue/navx-frc

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I will be completing the build today. This is the link to the beta JSON, which, when updated to 2023.0.1, will be the link for the release.

https://dev.studica.com/releases/2023/NavX.json

Edit: This has been updated to 2023.0.1 now

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Is there also going to be a release update for Labview users ?

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So just to clarify, is this the official release link that should be used now?

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Yes, it has also been updated on the FRC docs.

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As far as I can tell, the LabVIEW Lib for NavX has not been updated in 3 years. I am not sure if it was intentional or not. I will need to figure out how to get a LabVIEW license, test it, and update the library if required. This will take some time.

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If that’s the case, I’ll try to use last years version of Navx for Labview.

It would also be nice to have a way to install the JAVA/C++ libraries in an OFFLINE manner.
I’ve been at events where I couldn’t get wi-fi easily and was glad I had offline installation media.

No immediate rush.

Thank you!

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I agree. I will work on deploying this tomorrow.

Edit: It has now been deployed. The install and instructions can be found on the product page: navX2-MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor | Studica Canada - Robotics, Automation Technology for Education and Industry

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Is there a link to the Java docs for the latest version for 2023? Want to make see what if anything has changed.

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With the original navX discontinued, is the updated firmware in the coming years going to be cross-compatible with the original?

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I could share with you one of the team’s licenses for this. DM if this would be enough to keep up with this project.

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There was no change, but we are planning some changes. Unlikely that it will be implemented this season, however.

Here is the links to the docs:
C++: navX MXP C++ Class Library for RoboRIO: Main Page
Java: Overview (navx_frc API)
LabVIEW: navX Library v2.lvlib:Z900_navX_Open.vi

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I can’t guarantee that future updates will work on the original navX. If possible, we will release an update if required.

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Thanks for the offer, but I contacted First directly to get a license.

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I upgraded our 2022 robot project to 2023 libraries and now I’m getting an error that’s crashing the simulator.

navX-Sensor Java library for FRC
Error at com.kauailabs.navx.frc.SimIO.<init>(SimIO.java:59): Unhandled exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'edu.wpi.first.hal.SimBoolea        at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.RobotBase.runRobot(RobotBase.java:343)
        at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.RobotBase.lambda$startRobot$0(RobotBase.java:413)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
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I’ve been using the old library with the 2023 version of labview and have not ran into any issues yet.

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Thank you for confirming that

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