RobotPy Components

New in 2021, RobotPy now provides a meta installation package that makes it simpler to install and upgrade RobotPy. The meta package allows you to run pip install robotpy and this install all of the core RobotPy packages. This meta package is used both for installation on your computer and on your robot.

Optional/Vendor Components

If you install just the robotpy package via pip, then all of the core RobotPy wrappers around WPILib will be installed. However there are several groups of optional components that you can install. Vendor categories:

  • adi - Analog Devices 6-axis accelerometer support

  • ctre - Cross The Road Electronics motor controllers

  • navx - Kauai Labs NavX MXP Robotics Navigation

  • rev - REV Robotics motor controllers and color sensors

Optional WPILib component categories:

  • commands2 - WPILib Commands framework (2020+)

  • commands - WPILib old Commands framework

  • sim - WPILib extra simulation support

Install all vendors and WPILib optional components:

  • all

Using components

Component categories are represented as ‘extra requirements’ for the RobotPy package. Pip allows you to install extra requirements by putting the names of the categories in brackets.

Let’s say that you wanted to install the latest version of the NavX software along with command based programming. You would do this

py -3 -m pip install -U robotpy[navx,commands]

pip3 install -U robotpy[navx,commands]

Or if you wanted to install everything:

py -3 -m pip install -U robotpy[all]

pip3 install -U robotpy[all]

RoboRIO vs Computer

The RobotPy meta package is used for installation on both the RoboRIO and on your computer.