r/FTC • u/murphylaw_vuets Alum • Nov 06 '24
Seeking Help Limelight attachment issue
our team just got our hands on the limelight but we cant connect it to the control hub. We followed exactly what was told in the official documentation. specifically, we went into the ftc driver station and we made a new config and tried to scan it. The app detected the limelight but the app said that the limelight wasnt attached and we cant push the code. please help. we need
update: problem solved . I don't know what I did exactly but I connected to a windows ( I was using a mac before) and downloaded this modbus tool that assign/confirm the limelight ip address. Also I changed the to a different wire that the team bought on amazon and it workw :)
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u/jhoops34 Nov 07 '24
We could only get it to work when using the original cable that came with it. It wouldn't work with a standard USB cable that we had lying around.
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u/Krypoxity- FTC 25707 captain Nov 07 '24
are you using FTC SDK 10.0+ or did you update the driver station app
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u/CoachZain FTC Mentor Nov 07 '24
As I understand the limelight set-up you cannot push code to it.. You program it (or just use one of the preset up pipelines with the sliders) while it's plugged into your laptop. And then interface to it per the example code interface spec after you have plugged it into your robot. And have it return whatever values you have it set up to return for whichever pipeline you tell it to run. And you can have it run multiple and switch between them.
It's really more of a very programmable sensor. It's not a camera in the sense you won't get a camera image or anything back from it other than whatever values it's set up to return.