Emulate competition switch using CLI

[ItsMurf]

Expected Behavior: Competition Switch through Command Line Interface.

Actual Behavior: Non.

Steps to reproduce:

System information:

Operating System: (Windows, OS X, Ubuntu)

PROS Version: (run pros --version)

Additional Information

I am not sure if this is already a feature, if it is in development, or whatever the case is, I just thought that Pros should be able to start and stop autonomous programs to the robot from the CLI. One example program with this capability is seen in EasyC.

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[HotelCalifornia]

As discussed internally, this suggestion is different from the ability to flash to the cortex while it is connected to a physical competition switch. Rather, this suggestion seems to seek the ability to emulate the competition switch using CLI commands.

[brenapp]

I would love to see support for this! Is this a currently developing feature?

[pingbird]

I suggest implementing a general command system using a special character for the PROS kernel and CLI to communicate

This would allow automatic fault reporting https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros/issues/2

But RN you can easily just have a background task fread stdin, I prefer testing auton using an LCD though.

[HotelCalifornia]

we should look into this again following purduesigbots/pros#17

[edjubuh]

Thoughts: what if we add a task that runs only if field control isn't connected - i.e.: https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros/blob/master/src/invoke.c#L68

So opcontrol and this other user-registered task would start up. You'd register it in initIO as something to the effect of invokeOfflineTask(&myControllingFunction) which wouldn't have any particularly special abilities except you could program some logic to control the opcontrol/autonomous tasks. We can provide a template for simulating a competition through a time based control and a template for controlling via the terminal (type 'auto' + enter to invoke the auto task, etc.)