Hi,
Until now my team has been using the WPI SmartDashboard (not the SFX one), it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t very good either. Now we are having some problems with it (we can not display graphs and can not save our layouts). We tried switching to the new SFX one but had technical problems and we couldn’t display anything on it. I heard about team using the Labview dashboard in java but i’m not sure how they did it.
Can some of you please share your experience with your dashboard and maybe paste some example code or share a resource about it?
We switched to SFX this year. Right off the bat it fixes some problems
There’s a nice tree of variables
You can choose what to display and whether to auto-add
It has great layout and grouping tools
It comes with problems of its own
graph widget is bad, no support for USB camera. To solve these we used a graph widget plug-in (from 1768 -https://github.com/Nashoba-Robotics/SmartChart) and made our own USB camera widget using code from the old dashboard
It’s very resource intensive
It has some minor glitches such as not being able to edit widgets inside certain containers, and it often fails to save your layout with no visual feedback
We haven’t used the labview dashboard since we used labview
thank you for your response.
can you please add a small code snippet as an example of how to use the SFX dashboard? maybe something simple like how to display a variable or how to put a PID configuration widget
The dashboard front-end doesn’t change how your robot code needs to work. Just use SmartDashboard.putDouble, SmartDashboard.putData(PIDController), etc as usual.
