Talk:Veyron Community Challenge/@comment-33275462-20171019011220/@comment-33275462-20171019110902

You don't need a robot, Powerup777.

You only need a program. Either one that runs on your device and sends these events to RR3, or one that runs on a computer and sends these events through a USB debug interface.

Physically pressing your screen with a kind of a robotic arm is overkill. Doing so in conjuction with a video feed of the race (that needs to be processed in real time, no less) is the mother lode of overkills.

There exists programs with which you can do stuff like checking the value of a coordinate (the color of a pixel) on your screen, so you can detect when the retry button appears, and send the three "clicks" (touch events) that you need. Or, you can ignore the detection, and do a simple loop:

1.click on the coordinates of the retry button. Sleep for a second.

2. click on the coordinates of the continue button. Sleep for a second.

3. click on the coordinates of the continue button. Sleep for a second.

3. sleep for 7 minutes

4. repeat

I can't be bothered to do it right now, but it seems that in Android at least it's possible with ADB and a program called "monkeyrunner" (and ain't that ironic).

Now that I'm thinking about it, the color checking trick would be awesome for drag races in special events (although shifting gears is a bit trickier). Hmmm....