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Dianne
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Sending SmartDashboard Data to cRIO without pressing [ENTER] key

Hi,

Our team is attempting to tune a PID controller using the SendablePIDController and corresponding widget on the SmartDashboard. We ran into a little problem last night. We successfully displayed the widget on the dashboard. With our robot enabled, we typed in a new P constant on the SmartDashboard and then hit the [ENTER] key, which immediately disabled our robot.

Last year on the driver station the space bar was used to disable the robot. This year it is the [ENTER] key.

Does anyone have a solution on how I can enter data into the SmartDashboard triggering the SmartDashboard to recognize the new data and send it to the robot, without me using the [ENTER] key on the driver station? I don't want to keep inadvertently disabling my robot when I'm trying to see the effect of a new P constant in my PID controller.

Thank you!
Dianne
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