Thread: If your robot is jumpy, has watchdog timeouts, loses connection to the field, etc.
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Re: If your robot is jumpy, has watchdog timeouts, loses connection to the field, etc
We had a similar issue with interference in the 2.4 GHz band from our schools local wireless system.

I connected a bridge to a computer to do a scan of all local networks to find that our robot network and the schools network were both attempting to use the same channel, in this case 10. I just set the bridge to a different channel that was not listed. That corrected the interference issue.

I was very surprised that we had 12 local systems. The lesson learned was to know what is in your air!

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