[robocup-small] Ball replacement in SSL refbox

[Bob Rubbens]

Mark, Christopher, thanks for the help. Once I enabled the remote control
in the refbox and found out there was more than one executable in the
ssl-refbox repository I got it working.

Regards,

Bob

On 13 June 2017 at 17:38, Christopher Head <chead at chead.ca> wrote:

> Yes, I can confirm the situation. There is no button in the refbox to
> start a ball placement. The reason is because, for a human operator to use
> it during a game, we would really need to show a diagram of the field to
> allow selecting a target position. Adding this, with the ability to receive
> SSL-Vision data, would take some work; since we wanted to move to
> autonomous referees anyway, that work was not really needed.
>
> So, currently, the refbox will pass on ball placement orders from its
> remote control port, but there is no UI for issuing them by hand. That
> means the autonomous referees can issue placement orders and, for testing,
> as Mark mentioned, the command line remote control client can also issue
> placement orders.
> --
> Christopher Head
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