The QDriverStation is a cross-platform and open-source alternative to the FRC Driver Station. It allows you to operate FRC robots with the major operating systems (Windows, Mac OSX and GNU/Linux). The QDriverStation is able to operate both 2009-2014 robots and 2015-2016 robots.
The actual code that operates a FRC robot is found in a separate repository, which you can use in your own Qt projects or change it to support more communication protocols (such as ROS).
You can find the online documentation of the QDriverStation and its sub-projects here.
You can download the QDriverStation from both SourceForge and GitHub. We recommend you to download QDriverStation from GitHub, since SourceForge is known for serving misleading advertisements.
Once you finish installing the software, you can launch it and begin driving your robot. Just be sure to input your team number and to verify that the joysticks are working correctly.
Mac users will be prompted to download an additional driver for Xbox 360 controllers to work.
If you happen to use ArchLinux, lopsided98 configured a repository for this project.
Until very recently, I did not generate Debian packages. Dakota Keeler provided a package for version 0.14 and made a video tutorial on how to compile the QDriverstation, which you may find very helpful.
If you are on Linux, the QDriverStation may detect some devices as a joystick (more info...). If that happens, just disable the faulty device by clicking on the power button next to its name:
The only requirement to compile the application is to have Qt installed in your system. The desktop application will compile with Qt 5.2 or greater.
- If you are using Linux, make sure that you have installed the following packages:
- libsdl2-dev
The project already contains the compiled SDL libraries for Windows and Mac.
Once you have Qt installed, open QDriverStation.pro in Qt Creator and click the "Run" button.
Alternatively, you can also use the following commands:
- qmake
- make
- Optional: sudo make install
You can check this tutorial by Dakota Keeler to compile the QDriverStation.
This application was created by Alex Spataru.
Of course, many people contributed in different ways to this project, you can find more details in the contributors list. Finally, we want to thank you for trying this little project, we sincerely hope that you enjoy our application and we would love some of your feedback.