[MotorHead]

If the vi is part of the realtime target, you should be able to hit the run button without building and deploying. This runs the program and you can interact with any panels. If you reboot the crio, the program is gone.

I keep the driver station open just to verify I have communication and the program is in fact running, but it is not req'd unless you are doing things within telop or autonomous, then you need the driver station to set those modes and enable the robot.