Facility Control

Howdy all,

A persistent issue with Dashboard we are running into is the inability to refresh anything under the game controllers section of Dashboard.  This is really killing us right now because we use a Thrustmaster as camera controller (Shout out to my man Matt Marion) but every time the computer is locked, sleeps or just feels like it we lose connection and are forced to restart all of dashboard which can take up to 3 minutes.

Right now this issue is affecting three sites but will be a problem for seven by end of year.  Would love to cross this one off if we could. 

Best, 

Brandon 

Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the java.net.games library we use. They never exposed the methods to build the controller list and ONLY run it once. We are aware of it and understand why it is irritating but do not have any solution/workaround other than restarting DashBoard.

We also aware of that limitation, as we work with 2 joysticks on 2 stations, but my workaround was to disable sleep in power option, and also disable auto pc lock.

Ben, 

That sounds like a pretty limiting issue that makes a refresh button a significantly harder lift.  I still think this is a quality of life addition to dashboard for my engineers.  

What library are you using? LWJGL or something else? 

Alexander, 

Unfortunately we don't have the option to keep the computers unlocked. I appreciate the input though.