Thread: Modest request for next Jaguar firmware
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Re: Modest request for next Jaguar firmware
My team is using LabView, and we haven't found an equivalent for the enable and disable command for individual CAN jaguars. Perhaps there is a terminal on one of the vi's that we missed.

My proposal is essentially to automate the disable/enable on the jaguar, based on setting conditions, rather than explicit programming from the team code. If you look at limit switches, for example, there is no way to enable or disable them from LabView. They are explicitly enabled by default, so you do not have to send an explicit command to enable them on the Jaguar. If you use BDC-Comm, you can disable or enable the limit switches. The FIRST Labview libraries take this choice (or responsibility) away from the student programmer, and make the limit switches always functional. No code required.
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