Configuring Cheesy Arena Settings - Team254/cheesy-arena GitHub Wiki

This page documents the settings on the Setup -> Settings page in Cheesy Arena. Default IP addresses and credentials for the components that ship with the Cheesy Arena road case can be found at Default IP Addresses and Credentials.

Event Settings

Name: Name of the event. Shown in page titles, on the audience display, and on the rankings display, suffixed by the year.

Number of Alliances: Number of alliances participating in the playoff rounds. Must be between 2 and 16, inclusive.

Round 2 Selection Order: Whether the second round of alliance selection picks goes back to the first alliance, or is serpentine.

Round 3 Selection Order: Whether the third round of alliance selection picks goes back to the first alliance, or is serpentine. A value of "None" indicates that alliances will only have three teams.

Automatic Team Info Download

Enable Automatic Team Info Download: Whether team information will be downloaded from The Blue Alliance when teams are added on the Setup -> Team List page. This option has no effect after all teams have been added to the event.

Publishing

Enable The Blue Alliance publishing: Whether to publish team list, match schedules, match results, alliances, etc. to The Blue Alliance via their Trusted API.

TBA Event Code: TBA code for the event (such as "2018cc" for Chezy Champs 2018).

TBA Auth ID / Secret: Credentials that must be requested from TBA in advance of the event.

Authentication

Password for 'admin' user: Password that protects any Cheesy Arena pages allowing the modification of data or field state, or viewing of sensitive data. Leave blank to disable.

Password for 'reader' user: Password that protects any other Cheesy Arena pages. Leave blank to disable. Note that enabling this will necessitate logging into each display, and repeating each time the server is restarted.

Networking

Enable advanced network security: Whether each team should be isolated to its own VLAN and SSID (requires a Linksys WRT1900ACS access point and Catalyst 3500-series switch). If not enabled, no other field in the Networking section needs to be specified.

AP Address: IP address of the field access point.

AP Username / Password: Credentials for the administrative account on the field access point.

AP Team Channel (5GHz): WiFi channel on which to broadcast the team network. It is recommended to use a WiFi software utility to scan the spectrum and select an uncongested channel.

AP Admin Channel (5GHz): WiFi channel on which to broadcast the "Cheesy Arena" field network, or whether to disable it. It is recommended to use a WiFi software utility to scan the spectrum and select an uncongested channel. It is suggested to disable this and use a separate manually-configured AP connected to any VLAN 100 port on the field network switch, as the field AP is prone to crashing while being reconfigured between matches.

AP Admin WPA Key: WPA key for the "Cheesy Arena" field network, if enabled above.

Switch Address: IP address of the field network switch.

Switch Password: Administrative password for the field network switch.

PLC

PLC Address: IP address of the PLC, which is in the main PLC cabinet located at the scoring table.

LEDs

Scale Controller Address: IP address of the Advatek PixLite 4 MkII Rugged LED controller located at the Scale.

Red Switch Controller Address: IP address of the Advatek PixLite 4 MkII Rugged LED controller located at the Red Switch.

Blue Switch Controller Address: IP address of the Advatek PixLite 4 MkII Rugged LED controller located at the Blue Switch.

Red Vault Controller Address: IP address of the Philips Color Kinetics sPDS-60ca LED controller located at the Red Vault.

Blue Vault Controller Address: IP address of the Philips Color Kinetics sPDS-60ca LED controller located at the Blue Vault.