Anyone get Autonomous mode to work?

[Larry Barello]

I have last years competition port dongle and it doesn't seem to select alternate channels, or enable autonomous mode anymore. The "disable" switch still works.

I followed the instructions in the IFI OI interface manual, setting the team # to 0 and disconnecting the tether and still no joy. I can never get the RC Mode LED to blink yellow (autonomous mode) and my autonomous code never runs.

The OI documentation still refers to last years Competition Port Dongle and I can't imagine they changed it (think of all those competition controllers). It sure looks like the IFI RC/OI is broken for autonomous and alternate channel selection.

[Steven Carmain]

It sure looks like the IFI RC/OI is broken for autonomous and alternate channel selection.

I know in the OI guide, IFI talks about the competition port (Here (http://www.innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/pdfs/FR-2004-OI_Ref_Guide_2003-12-19.pdf), Page 12). This is the same pinouts as last year's documentation, but auto mode is not listed in the port list. I would assume they are are using the same pinouts for the game controllers, but I'm not sure. We are working on testing this too.

[Mark McLeod]

I have last years competition port dongle and it doesn't seem to select alternate channels, or enable autonomous mode anymore. The "disable" switch still works.

I followed the instructions in the IFI OI interface manual, setting the team # to 0 and disconnecting the tether and still no joy. I can never get the RC Mode LED to blink yellow (autonomous mode) and my autonomous code never runs.

The OI documentation still refers to last years Competition Port Dongle and I can't imagine they changed it (think of all those competition controllers). It sure looks like the IFI RC/OI is broken for autonomous and alternate channel selection.

We tested ours from last year with our Team # set and the tether, and the OI disable LED blinks for autonomous and stays solid for disable. We didn't check the autonomous bit from within the code yet.

[Larry Barello]

My how emberassing! Just because it was a dongle from last year and didn't appear to be modified I assumed it was working. Silly me: Two of the switches were missing their guts...

[GregTheGreat]

My how emberassing! Just because it was a dongle from last year and didn't appear to be modified I assumed it was working. Silly me: Two of the switches were missing their guts...

I don't even want to know how or why you would take the guts out of your dongle.... but at least you know the problem....

Yay! You get to solder... :D

-Greg The Great