gluxon/driverstation.js

An open source alternative FRC Driver Station

driverstation.js's Issues

Determine method to get joystick data

So far node-joystick appears to have everything we need to grab standard FRC joysticks.

Anyone that would like to play around with node-joystick and report back, please assign yourself to this issue.

Display Error Messages

Update node-sdl

node-sdl provides cross-platform joystick recognition. It is outdated, and needs to move from node-waf to node-gyp.

creationix/node-sdl#12

Determine when team number is entered

Currently, DriverStation.js will reconfigure the team number and change UDP routes when the user presses enter in the team number input field.

This may not be intuitive enough. AKA, pressing enter as a required step may not be obvious. Other options are..

• Change team numbers instantly as the user is typing it in
• Change team numbers after 3 seconds of no add/edit
• Add a confirm button

I would like to have the first one, but it does cause the DriverStation to send UDP packets to a destination that will very obviously not work.

Automatically grab team numbers

I'm not sure whether or not the software should do this yet, but the possibility of grabbing roborio-####.local addresses from node-mdns is there.

Use with FMS

I was looking around for alternatives to the default Driver Station and found this! Do you know if this project works with the Field Management System and thus could be used at competition?

Detect for Robot Code

It appears that this is done through the control packet (my guess).

Improve elapsed time formatting

Currently, the elapsed time formatting function goes through number, to string, to number, and to string conversions. There should be a better way to do this. It does work for now though, and at the speed needed.

Include font in binary?

Hi, fellow FRCer (Team 1515) here with an interest in open source driver stations :P. At first glance I noticed something in the css directory.
Wouldn't it be easier to just add Open Sans into the CSS folder instead of downloading it from Google's URL, especially if the user has no internet connection? It isn't against Google's ToS (I had researched this for something else).

I could make a pull request for this, it's obviously trivial.

Better Solution for node-gamepad & node-webkit Compatibility

As outlined in the 3rd party modules with C/C++ addons section of the node-webkit wiki, native modules with node-webkit run with a different ABI (application binary interface) than standard node. @Gixxy came up with a nice solution in pull request #13, but it would be nice to automate this. (Say with Grunt)

Implement Joysticks GUI

Tie together with node-driverstation

The GUI does not currently bind to any actions. At the moment, it is only a shell. We should bind buttons and logs to node-driverstation.