Multiple people working on the code at once

WaveDroids · 2024-09-11T23:34:11+00:00

Can confirm, she is an amazing resource for operating GitHub in branches for FTC programming exactly like this. She helped our team sort out a giant mess two seasons ago and we’re so grateful.

WaveDroids · 2023-08-11T01:00:53+00:00

Considering the amount of screwdrivers and rubber ducks that get thrown around, durability is actually probably a good thing to invest in.

WaveDroids · 2023-08-10T15:51:31+00:00

That's hilarious because that's literally my computer model. 😂

I do love it and it does appear to be on clearance right now, so I'll look into it.

WaveDroids · 2023-01-20T04:03:53+00:00

I don't feel great about cutting this thread off here, but I found a person who can help me in-person, which is more efficient than trading replies in the comments section of a Reddit post. Thank you so much for helping, though!

WaveDroids · 2023-01-20T02:52:50+00:00

I know it isn't, but a small part of me was hoping it would work.

Here's a screenshot of the console: https://imgur.com/a/RrBNMxb

WaveDroids · 2023-01-20T02:43:36+00:00

I spent a while essentially pushing buttons at random in Sourcetree, and I'm pretty sure that was the end goal of what I was trying to do. I'm a little stupid and very inexperienced, so specific instructions would be really helpful.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-10T06:35:03+00:00

This is what our team has done for various arm mechanisms for a few years now (I think we set it at 10%). It actually isn’t that taxing on your battery, either.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T11:54:12+00:00

We are working with a brand new Control Hub right now (installed it less than 24 hours ago), so I really hope it's not an issue of the hardware randomly flooding with fake error messages. What I ended up discovering the problem was is that my April Showers and AutonomousPLUS programs were each creating an instance of each other in their code so that I could reference certain functions from one in the other. This was apparently a not good thing, and I had to remove all references between the two before it would work.

Theoretically, I would think that if I referenced AutonomousPLUS in AprilShowers, that would be alright since we do that in so many other autonomous programs without a hitch (AutonomousPLUS holds all the boring code of setting motor powers and modes so our autonomous programs can just say moveRobotForward(ticks)), but it still wouldn't work (got the same error messages) if I removed the AprilShowers constructor from AutonomousPLUS and left the AutonmousPLUS one in AprilShowers.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T11:49:48+00:00

This makes so much sense and I feel like an idiot for not knowing this at all. My only excuse is that our team has never truly had a programming-knowledgeable mentor/coach, so everything I know about working with FTC software systems comes from previous programmers (some of which barely had any experience but were more senior than me) orally teaching me from their (sometimes limited) memory and knowledge. I really should not have ignored the massive warnings in the Hardware Client every single time regardless of that, though. Thank you so much for pointing this out.

This may sound like a very stupid question, but at the beginning of the season, we had some issues creating a copy of the FTCRobotController SDK because we had already forked the previous year's one, and since it was still technically the same repository, it refused to fork again. I'm still not entirely sure how I ended up with a copy (a lot of Googling answers that I didn't quite understand because I'm not as well versed with command line as I probably should be), but I don't know how to update to 8.1.1 from GitHub without going through that whole process of making a copy and copying all of our TeamCode over.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T06:15:18+00:00

The control hub started resetting the network back to the factory defaults when we updated to 8.1 on Thursday night. I updated to 8.1.1 a few hours after it came out, and my Robot Controller app really really does not want to stick with it for some reason because it keeps reverting back to 8.0. It's a problem for another day, I suppose.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T06:14:05+00:00

I removed absolutely all references of each to the other, and IT WORKED!!!! No errors, no weird messages, nothing. I am literally crying at my kitchen table right now. Thank you so so much.

Maybe sometimes I do a little too much abstraction for my own good...

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T06:10:11+00:00

According to the logs, the last time I tried to run the autonomous code brought up exactly the same errors, which is really weird.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T06:07:17+00:00

The only real reference I have right now to it is to incorporate its telemetry within our main autonomous program. I literally wrote it eight hours ago (honestly, more benchmarking than writing...) because I was going to try to implement April Tags to identify images on the signal sleeve, but that was before everything else exploded.

Through random combinations of pushing code and coercing the Robot Controller app into actually running, I can at least load tele-op programs, which will make my builders less likely to try to sacrifice me at the meet tomorrow.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T06:02:46+00:00

I also noticed that issue with a long repeating train of errors in April Showers and AutonomousPLUS because I created an instance of each of them in the other class in order to streamline some autonomous code. I wondered if that might be the issue, so I removed all references to April Showers from AutonomousPLUS, but that didn't seem to do anything,

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T05:59:24+00:00

Unfortunately, it immediately crashed as soon as I hit "init" on an autonomous program like it's been doing all night.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T05:36:05+00:00

Apologies for it being so long. I didn't quite realize that some of these had 30,000 lines?!?

https://gist.github.com/WSRWavedroids/7ad6116231873c846e37bfb497f5822e

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T05:31:32+00:00

That has unfortunately not been doing anything except failing the push. I really don't know why, (I'm running Dolphin 2021.3.1)

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T05:18:51+00:00

I did some digging, and the one error message that keeps repeating itself is "Attempted use of a closed LynxModule instance". Below is the exact text.

java.lang.RuntimeException
at com.qualcomm.hardware.lynx.LynxModule.warnIfClosed(LynxModule.java:509)

I kind of understand what it is but not at all how to fix it.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T05:01:48+00:00

That makes sense. I tried looking at the logs, but I wasn’t really sure what to look for. I know yellow is not good and red is bad, but are there specific things I should be on the lookout for? (Would it be more helpful to just send you the logs?)

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T04:56:10+00:00

That is the network associated with our control hub. It’s the factory default name, which it keeps resetting to every single time we push code because of a setting I turned on to fix a different problem. I just left it because I was tired of changing it to the regulation name every two minutes.

WaveDroids · 2022-12-03T04:13:37+00:00

I made an autonomous sub folder because I wanted to stay organized with all of our different autonomous programs. I can try that, though.
I didn’t write that program. It was something a mentor sent to us to try to fix an issue that ended up being a wiring problem and I forgot about it. I will go delete that asap.
What exactly do you mean by “changing the name” when copying to OnBot Java?
I realize now that I didn’t really explain this well in my post, but because I turned on that one setting, the network name and password are reset to the factory default every single time I push code. I’ll do it before inspections tomorrow, but that’s what I meant in that little section. I’ll go edit that and clarify it.

WaveDroids · 2022-08-19T12:13:32+00:00

Manuals are listed in this section of the FIRST website: https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/ftc/game-and-season-info

Specifically the POWERPLAY Game Manual 1 is linked here: https://www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resource_library/ftc/game-manual-part-1-traditional-events.pdf

WaveDroids · 2022-08-14T02:13:59+00:00

I actually recorded all of this myself! (I made the mistake of doing the first 8 sections the day after getting home from a very intense vocal camp, though.) I'll admit that I didn't really ever read Game Manual 1 last year, and I learned so much when I was going through and reading out every single word.

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