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Skier492 11-04-2016 21:41

Radio discontinued?
 
Has anyone caught the end of sale announcement by Open Mesh on the OM5P-AN radio?
See https://help.cloudtrax.com/hc/en-us/articles/209783793
The Open Mesh replacement is OM5P-AC and has some differences.
I'm not sure what this means to the control system...

Arhowk 11-04-2016 21:44

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Router for one year? I'm fine with it. Please let us not use OpenMesh again

ATannahill 11-04-2016 21:46

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
As a CSA, I want to do a happy dance at this news. I've said it before, but if I can switch the wires to the two ethernet ports and cause or fix issues, it is not a piece of hardware for high school robotics.

Ether 11-04-2016 21:58

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Skier492 (Post 1571513)
Has anyone caught the end of sale announcement by Open Mesh on the OM5P-AN radio?

I notice that the announcement is dated April 1.

Coincidence?



rzoeller 11-04-2016 22:03

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ether (Post 1571535)
I notice that the announcement is dated April 1.

Coincidence?



Possibly, but there is a similar article for a slightly different model dated the 11th of April.

MrRoboSteve 11-04-2016 22:17

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
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The Open Mesh radio has been a huge improvement over the dlink in its handling of high bandwidth situations. If I saw bandwidth usage like this on the field monitor last year, it would have scared me.

Attachment 20583

hardcopi 11-04-2016 22:29

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
I love the Open Mesh.. programming them and getting those to work has been great in comparison. The old D-Link's never seemed to want to auto program.

bdaroz 11-04-2016 23:13

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
On the upside the replacement Open Mesh does have a faster CPU... Perhaps it'll boot faster?

One can hope.

MikLast 11-04-2016 23:56

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by bdaroz (Post 1571598)
Perhaps it'll boot faster?

This. Being on the drive team it was painful if you didnt properly turn on the robot and had to quickly run on and turn it on, waiting for a couple minutes waiting for it to boot (happened to us once) or if the radio resets itself right before a match and you get bypassed because of it (happened to another team at an event a couple weeks back)

RyanN 12-04-2016 07:56

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
I would prefer going back with a wireless router / radio / wireless AP with at least 3 Ethernet ports.

GreyingJay 12-04-2016 12:36

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Do they provide a radio each year in the KOP, or only the rookie kit?

Mark McLeod 12-04-2016 12:38

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Veteran KOPs only get radios (or other control system elements) when the model changes for everyone and FIRST outlaws use of the old models (for compatibility or availability).

orangemoore 12-04-2016 12:42

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod (Post 1571859)
Veteran KOPs only get radios (or other control system elements) when the model changes for everyone.

We have too many D links for this to be true. (I don't think we ever bought one)

Mark McLeod 12-04-2016 13:12

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Extra components have sometimes been offered through FIRST Choice, especially at end of model life. I think I picked up extra DLinks for my team through that avenue.
It's easy enough to follow where our parts originated by checking the yearly KOP checklists and corresponding lists of FIRST Choice offers.

Thad House 12-04-2016 13:15

Re: Radio discontinued?
 
Something interesting is looking at the OM5P-AC, its looks like in order to meet new FCC standards they are not allowing external firmwares to be loaded onto the device. With FIRST wanting to write their own firmware this could be a problem for pretty much any new radio they choose.


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