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SmartDashboard not connecting to robot.
Our roboRIO is working fine, and we're able to wirelessly deploy Java code and drive it around, but the SmartDashboard won't connect to the robot. When we add a connection indicator, it just stays red. I tried un-installing the SmartDashboard and then reinstalling it by following the online instructions. The latest version I could find was 1.05, but it says it was created in 2013... After reinstalling it, somehow it did not prompt me for my team number, it remembered from last time. In addition, the preferences menu doesn't have an option that the instructions say it should have. It has no "use mDNS" checkbox. This makes me think that the preferences file didn't get deleted when I uninstalled it.
I also tied installing the SmartDashboard 2.0, but that didn't work either. None of the SmartDashboard code values would appear. We were able to successfully use the SmartDashboard last year. Does anyone know what we can do to fix this? |
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the latest versions of both SmartDashboard and sfx (SmartDashboard 2.0) are installed automatically by the plugins.
The location is referenced here: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...smartdashboard. SmartDashboard can also be launched from the wpilib menu in eclipse (sfx launching is currently broken using the wpilib menu). |
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Where is the SmartDashboard.jar located? The new one should be located in "<USER_DIR>/wpilib/tools".
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That instructional page says to download the SmartDashboard here: http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/frs/do/.../frs.installer
The latest version available there is from 2013. We deleted every copy of the SmartDashboard we had in an attempt to reinstall it from scratch using that download page. |
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You shouldn't need to install anything separately. For me, it was installed when I installed the Eclipse plugins.
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I already have the eclipse plugins. Should I reinstall those?
The link you put above says this: "download the latest installer package from this page" |
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You shouldn't download anything from the FIRSTForge site because everything on there is old now. I think the link on the Screensteps might be a mistake. |
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Yeah, it looks like we deleted the SmartDashboard version that came with the plugins. I'll try reinstalling the plugins, and I'll let you know if it doesn't work.
Thanks! |
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You need to stop eclipse, delete the entire WPILib folder from your user home directory, and rerun eclipse. It will notice that the folder is missing and recreate it along with the tools directory. Inside there is SmartDashboard, sfx, and the other tools. Those will always be up to date (at least as up to date as the plugins) you are running.
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Well the good news is that now the SmartDashboard works. I deleted the wpilib folder and it was replaced with the latest SmartDashboard.jar. The sfx also works too.
The bad news is that now we can no longer deploy our code... I have no clue why this spontaneously doesn't work. Buildfile: C:\Users\Developer\Dropbox\1Robotics\FRC2015\FRC20 15\build.xml BUILD FAILED C:\Users\Developer\Dropbox\1Robotics\FRC2015\FRC20 15\build.xml:28: Cannot find C:\Users\Developer\Dropbox\1Robotics\FRC2015\FRC20 15\${wpilib.ant.dir}\build.xml imported from C:\Users\Developer\Dropbox\1Robotics\FRC2015\FRC20 15\build.xml Total time: 2 seconds |
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Try setting the team number or tools version in the WPILib Preferences menu. This fixed the problem for us.
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Thanks, everything works now!
It had lost our team number. |
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