Using the Remote Screen in the AIM Control Panel – VEX Library

The Remote Screen in the VEXcode AIM Control Panel displays the connected VEX AIM Coding Robot's screen in real time. You can interact with the robot's screen remotely, and copy or save images.

Note: To use the Remote Screen, the robot must be connected with a wired connection. The Remote Screen will not work over Bluetooth. See this article for more information on connecting your robot.

Accessing the Remote Screen

The upper right hand corner of the VEXcode AIM Toolbar with the gear icon button highlighted, in the bottom row, to the left of the Code Viewer button.

Open the Control Panel by selecting the gear icon in upper right corner of VEXcode AIM.

The top of the Control Panel in VEXcode AIM, with the Remote Screen section highlighted, showing an image of the screen of the connected robot and three buttons that read Pause, Save Image, and Copy Image.

The Remote Screen section is located at the top of the window.

Using the Remote Screen

The same image with a red box highlighted the image of the robot's screen on the lefthand side.

When opened, the Remote Screen will display the current image shown on the robot's screen. When the robot's screen image changes, the image will update in the Remote Screen.

To interact with the robot's screen via the Remote Screen, select the screen image as desired. The connected robot's screen will change, as will the image on the Remote Screen. View this video to see an example of selecting the Info button to view the robot's information.

The same image of the Remote Screen section at the top of the Control Panel, with the Pause button to the right of the screen image highlighted.

To Pause the image on the screen, select Pause.

The same image as above, with the Resume button in the place of the Pause button highlighted.

To start the image feed again, select Resume.

The same image as before, with the Save Image button, below the Pause button on the right hand side highlighted.

To save an image from the screen, select the Save Image button.

The same image as the previous one with the Copy Image button below the Save Image button highlighted to the right hand side.

To copy an image from the screen, select the Copy Image button.

The same image as previous, with the expansion arrows in the upper right hand corner highlighted.

The image in the Remote Screen can be enlarged by selecting the arrows in the upper right corner.

The enlarged Remote Screen showing a larger image of the robot's screen, with the arrows in the upper right hand corner highlighted to show how to return to the default screen image size.

To return the image to the default size, select the arrows again.

The same image of the top portion of the Control Panel with the downward arrow to the right of the Remote Screen heading highlighted.

To close the Remote Screen, select the arrow to the right of the Remote Screen header to collapse the section of the Control Panel.