Frc Driver station/labview

[Jackob9921]

I am part of a rookie team on frc 2017 steamworks. I am trying to have text show up on my frc driver station showing a motor is actavated.

the plan is

When motor 3 turns on, the driver station dashboard log says

Motor 3 On

and when controler button is pressed to turn off

Motor 3 OFF

If this is possible. Please help. Im not sure what to use to enable it to display. I am secound coder in my team. Head coder doesnt know if its possible

[R^2]

Yes, I could make that happen in the Log... but why not use the Dashboard? (see the first image) There is already a place and some default locations already setup for something like this.

See the second screen shot to see the Code and the Dashboard result.

I am a little hesitant to explain how to use the Log that way... That is not really what that is ment for. Please explain why you want to use the Log vs the Dashboard. If I can understand your reasining I will explain how.

Good luck!

Ryan 

[Dawgma]

Hello, my team is actually looking into writing our own error messages to the Driver Station for debugging and logging purposes. We would like to be able to access the messages written during every match or execution in a file, and the Driver Station conveniently saves its error logs/event lists onto the computer. I've seen libraries for writing to the DS logs in java; how would we do the same in LabVIEW?

Thanks,

Hannah (team Dawgma)

[R^2]

Ok... I will post how to do this on a new discussion post.

[R^2]

Ok the post is up!

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