question regarding driverstation

[ringo115]

So we just updated our drivers station and everything seemed fine, however now rather then saying its enabled or disabled it was watchdog, what does that meen?

[BEEKMAN]

So we just updated our drivers station and everything seemed fine, however now rather then saying its enabled or disabled it was watchdog, what does that meen?

it means that somewhere, your code failed...not sure why though, we've yet to get this

[lynca]

The best way to debug coding failures is to look closely at the default project. Open a default project on another computer and compare with your current project.

Be careful about where you initialize watchdogs and what variables pass through case statements and loops.

[ringo115]

can you reccomend a good place to initalize said watchdog, and where is a good place to learn about the watchdog

[Alan Anderson]

The watchdog is initialized and fed for you if you start with one of the provided project templates. The only time you really need to worry about it is if you want to do debugging using breakpoints. You just have to write your code to avoid tying up the processor in long loops waiting for something to happen without feeding the watchdog.