Virtual Scouting System

VEX V5 General Discussion General Forum
#1

I’m looking into developing a web based virtual scouting system for the upcoming game which will be open source and obtain team and match data from tournaments along with scouting forms for teams.

I would like to know what people would want to see in a system like this as I do plan on releasing it later in the year (before NZ regionals hopefully) and would like something that would seem to suit people’s needs.

It will be written with PHP & MySQL and I hope to be able to make it open source and freely distributable for other teams to run on their systems.

I am also looking into mobile phone apps to feed data back to a central database but this is a long while away

Thanks

#2

The Cheesy Poofs (254) had a webpage scouting form for last years VRC and FRC games that they made available.

www.cheesyscout.com i think was the URL

#3

i think was the URL

Cheesy Scout (scout.team254.com)
We mainly used it for FRC this year, as at VEX Worlds Wi-Fi was not allowed, so we did paper scouting.
I think we used Cheesy Scout for a few VEX tournaments, but now with the Wi-Fi-VexNet interference (supposedly) it will probably be used less.

#4

That could work…

#5

I looked at this website and it I truly amazing (what I had hoped to do plus a lot more). The only question I have is can it use other events from other countries (I’m in New Zealand).

The wifi issue could be fixed with a bluetooth personal network between devices which get data from a local server (laptop) or a 3G enabled device, however I have to look into the limits of a bluetooth network on mobile devices and if they support the networking needed.

#6

Bluetooth uses the same 2.4Ghz band that both Wifi and VEXnet use, so i’m guessing that bluetooth is frowned upon as well

#7