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> I just ran a 2-day event using the new OffSeason FMS and would like to post my
>  report.
> 
> Event: SCRRF Fall Classic 2014
> Dates: 9/27, 9/28/2014
> 
> Before the event:
> - I tried to load the new FMS onto two Win7 laptops with only 2GB of RAM and 
> both failed miserably.  FMS needs plenty of 
> 
> RAM.  I didn't see any system specs on the web site or in the PDF docs.  
> Perhaps some minimum specs could be added.
> 
> Saturday (33 robots):
> - I did find a Win7 laptop that would load and run FMS.  I loaded all the 
> teams and generated a match schedule.  But 
> 
> unfortunately, it had a locked firewall for which I didn't have the password, 
> so it wouldn't connect to any robots and 
> 
> couldn't run any matches.  (This isn't a bug, just some frustration about 
> corporate controlled laptops)
> - I tried a brand new Win8 laptop.  FMS installed and appeared to run, but 
> would frequently throw up an error box when 
> 
> editing the team list.  This prevented us from entering more than 3 teams in 
> the event.  (This is probably bug 3413.  I'm 
> 
> having the owner re-test to see if he can workaround the bug.)
> - In the end, I had to run the event using a combination of the the Win7 
> laptop that could do event management along with 
> 
> the 2009 FMS Lite to run the robots.  Inconvenient, but functional.
> 
> Sunday (24 robots):
> - On Sunday, I located another Win7 laptop that would both run FMS and talk to
>  the robots.  Yea!  I ran the entire event 
> 
> from this laptop, but noted a few bugs (ranked in my priority order):
>  1) The field monitor didn't work: The frame of the field monitor would appear
> , the team numbers would populate and would 
> 
> show bypass flags, but the squares were always white, no robot status.  This 
> was really disappointing to be so close...
>  2) In many matches, I would pre-start but 1-3 driver stations would not 
> connect to FMS (neither on their end nor on 
> 
> mine).  The DSs that didn't connect would be random and it could happen to DSs
>  that had successfully connected on previous 
> 
> matches.  After trying many things, I finally found that I had to back out of 
> PreStart, go down a match, back up a match, 
> 
> re-prestart, and then more DSs would connect.  There was still a chance that 
> some wouldn't.  On one match late in the day, 
> 
> I had to re-prestart 3 times to get all 6 DSs to connect.
>  3) Due to the complex nature of scoring this year, the scorekeepers were 
> scoring the matches on paper and feeding the 
> 
> rolled-up scores to me.  I was not trying to use any of the breakdown buttons 
> for cycles or anything like that.  I just 
> 
> recorded the match scores using the Fouls and Adj Score boxes on the Score tab
> .  The bug showed up on the Pit display: Two 
> 
> of the teams in the rankings were listed with '0' Teleop points despite the 
> fact that they'd scored lots (the 22 other 
> 
> teams all had non-zero Teleop points).  This didn't appear to affect the 
> ranking, only the display of their team stats.
> 
> Concerns for 2015:
> - We had a 2015 beta test team (330) at the event and found that the 2015 DS 
> defaults to 2015 mode.  If connected to 2014 
> 
> FMS in 2015 mode, FMS crashes.  It was up to the team to always remember to 
> set legacy mode before connecting to the 
> 
> field, which they *almost* always got right.
> 
> I expect to run a pre-bag scrimmage in February.  I really hope that an 
> updated 2015 version of OffSeason FMS will be 
> 
> available for that event because I guarantee that a room full of nervous teams
>  scrambling to get their robots running will 
> 
> forget to pick legacy FMS mode and will crash 2014 FMS on every single match.
> 
> Terry Wells
> - SCRRF Field Ops
> - Los Angeles Regional Field Supervisor

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