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Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

After you've applied Mark's changes, please post the output of running this command at the command prompt. Best if you put the output in the file and upload it as an attachment.

Code:

powercfg /query

Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod (Post 1573708)

Some people have reported that the Xbox One controller does do weird things with the Driver Station app and has sometimes been found to have issues playing nicely with other controllers. Of course, theirs might have been some other issue, too. (e.g., http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=142183)

Our team has had several issues with connectivity of our xbox controllers to the DS. We have one Xbox One controller and one Xbox 360 controller. The DS would stop responding until we unplugged the XB1 controller. Sometimes, the controllers would get swapped in DS (Xbox One controller would show up as 360 and vice versa). The problem still occurred when we tried using USB hubs and switching to other computers. We only could test on other Windows 10 machines, however. This problem was somewhat rare (didn't occur during our matches), but still a nuisance.

I'd suggest listing specs of your driverstation laptop. I've had driver issues with Windows 10 on my personal computer, too, especially with USB 3 ports.

Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

It seems that plugging the laptop in on the driver station helped, though it didn't totally alleviate the problem. Instead of disconnecting 4-5 times a match, it seemed to happen only once.

It is less of an inconvenience now, but something I would really like to solve for whenever we compete next.

Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

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Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42 (Post 1574000)

It seems that plugging the laptop in on the driver station helped, though it didn't totally alleviate the problem. Instead of disconnecting 4-5 times a match, it seemed to happen only once.

When you are actively using the computer, nothing you are using should go into sleep mode.

Might be a bad USB Controller. When plugged in, it might get a little more power to overcome a defect in the controller.

Ditto for a marginal USB connection. Extra power can overcome a marginal connection.

Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

Do you run with the problematic controller plugged alone into a direct USB port? Or has it been sharing a USB hub with other devices?

I have seen power hungry controllers (lots of lights, bells & whistles) that didn't like to share the limited USB power provided through a hub and would be the only device to drop out (brown out) if the overall power supplied through the USB port couldn't support all the devices hanging off that one computer port.

Re: Joystick disconnecting constantly during match

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod (Post 1574149)

It has been running through its own USB port. In fact, we tried plugging it into 2 different USB ports on the computer, and it still happened.