I know that in VCS, there is a little icon you click on that brings up a panel that allows you to set the color signatures for the vision sensor, but how is this done in PROS?
I was under the impression that the signatures are stored on the laptop (in VCS?) and not on the Vision Sensor itself, so how would PROS know how to access these signatures?
I think on the PixyCam, the signatures are stored on the PixyCam itself, and you can get those signatures off of it when you hook up the PixyMon, but I don’t know if the Vex sensor works the same way.
Set the signatures with the Vision Utility and it saves them to the Vision Sensors internal memory.
Ok, thanks! I couldn’t find that information anywhere in the documents.
Also, for some reason I found the signatures won’t save if the frame is frozen, so unfreeze it before unplugging the vision camera or quitting the vision utility.
The Vision Sensor’s internal memory seems to regularly lose it’s signatures. For me, I’ve never got it to remember signatures from the utility.
The solution for me is to grab the signature values and programmatically set them in the code.
In the past, I would use RobotMesh (you could use VCS), which dumps signatures from the utility into text in the code, to be programmatically set on program run. Then, I would rearrange the numbers to fit the PROS format of programmatically setting a signature and copy it to PROS.
However, there is a new version (0.2.4) of the PROS Vision utility that has an option to copy the signatures directly to the clipboard.
This does not solve the issue of converting to PROS format, but PROS has a new feature that lets you directly paste VCS-formatted signatures.
I have heard some reports that it might not work yet, so I also have created (with help from James from 20785A) a regex pattern that let’s you paste a VCS-formatted list of signatures and it converts them into PROS signatures.
It can be found here: https://regexr.com/467ah
Good luck!
How do you copy the signatures to the clipboard through vision utility?
For the version we sent to the PROS team we added a small icon in the lower right corner of the status bar. The VCS version doesn’t have that capability.
I only see the 0.2.4 version for windows.