photonvision Expose available pipeline names to photon-lib

when setting up PhotonVision, the students know what the pipeline names are. They have to select the pipelines from the roboRIO by index. It would be a Good Thing™ if they could set by name from the roboRIO, or know what pipeline names are available.

Feb 01 '23 04:02 fovea1959

It is technically true that names are guaranteed to be unique... hm

Feb 01 '23 15:02 mcm001

I assume the main issue with this would be that the current method of changing the index couldn't be changed, an additional NT Topic would need to be created, and a better solution might be the make a read-only topic that just displays the pipeline name.

Feb 02 '23 06:02 srimanachanta

I agree, using my second suggestion would be best. If I have a list of the pipeline names in order, picking the correct index is easy, and no existing team code would need to be modified (you still pick by index). We are just adding a very static string array to the network table.

I can take this enhancement on. Do we assign issues in this project?

Feb 02 '23 11:02 fovea1959

@JochemvdBroek Did you ever make any progress on this?

Oct 13 '25 21:10 samfreund