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Re: Robot Loses Connection

The diagnostics page does a few different things. It pings the ethernet devices and shows the results, and it shows whether it was able to identify and open a connection to a USB HID joystick or gamepad device.

My explanation for the blinking ping results is that another device not he network has the same IP address. You may be able to do a reverse DNS lookup and determine the other device. Or perhaps you should simplify the network to get rid of the cross-talk. Our office at work is also a 10.xx.yy.zz network, so this happens there. You generally fix this by turning off or disabling all of the LANs and WANs on the PC until only the one connected to the robot is enabled.

I don't really have an explanation for the joystick except that the PC drivers say that there is. Perhaps if you open up the control panel and go to the joystick section and see if it agrees. I have seen BT or wireless joystick adapters that "reserve" connections to devices that they own. I was a BT mouse set that claimed to be a mouse, keyboard and joystick all the time just in case you owned the other devices and turned them on.

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