Remote Layout Downloading

For situations where you want to load a dashboard layout from your robot, Elastic supports downloading a layout remotely and merging it with your current layout.

On-Robot Configuration

In your robot code, add the following line in robotInit() or another initialization function

Java

WebServer.start(5800, Filesystem.getDeployDirectory().getPath());

C++

WebServer::GetInstance().Start(5800, frc::Filesystem::GetDeployDirectory());

Next, you will have to deploy the Elastic configuration file to your robot:

1. Export the layout from Elastic

2. Move the exported json file into the deploy folder of your robot project

3. Deploy your robot code

The name of the exported json file MUST be "elastic-layout.json", and should be placed at the root directory of your deploy folder, the folder structure should look like this:

/deploy elastic-layout.json ...

Downloading Your Layout

To download the layout to your dashboard, enter the File menu, and click Load Layout From Robot

Alternatively, you can use the shortcut Ctrl + D

Shuffleboard API Migration Guide

Code-Driven Layouts

Migrating Shuffleboard API layouts to remote downloading layouts is simple:

1. Clear all tabs and widgets of your dashboard, it is recommended you save your layout to a safe location before doing this step

2. Connect to your robot to populate Elastic with the code-driven layout

3. Export your dashboard layout

4. Set up the remote layout downloading as described here

After migrating your layout, it is advised to remove any Shuffleboard API-related code from your robot project.