I am just getting started with my new V5 kits for the coming school year. I noticed that the timer is off by a constant 1.5 factor. That is, if you want to run something for T seconds, you need to divide the timer value by 1.5 in a command like “until timer = T/1.5 …”
This is true whether the brain is connected to a PC or not.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a better solution?
can you give more details ? The timers should be very accurate, how are you testing ?
I think user is using a Robot Mesh Studio Blockly program and I’m following up.
Confirmed a bug in our Timer.elapsed_time() python method. We’ll test the fix and release a hotfix to Robot Mesh Studio Python on Monday. This would also impact RMS Blockly programs using the Timer blocks.
https://www.robotmesh.com/docs/vexiq-python/html/classtimer_1_1_timer.html
https://www.robotmesh.com/docs/vexv5-python/html/classtimer_1_1_timer.html
Fix now released to the online Robot Mesh Studio programming software. The elapsed time, as read by Timer.elapsed_time() is now accurate in all circumstances.
Yes, works great now. Thank you!