To get back on topic, I want one specific question answered.
What would make us connect and disconnect before the match even began?
Our configuration for the last match was this:
- Dumbed down code, no CAN, no PID, just connecting joystick outputs to motors and solenoids.
- No camera connected
We had trouble maintaining connection to FMS during the pre-match announcements. Why? No EMI, no vibrations, and we know our power is good from testing all the power and connections in the pit. At this point, all of our hardware had been replaced. Our power test consisted of probing voltages when the robot was still, everything came up clean. We then enabled teleoperated, shook, kicked, dropped, rattled the whole robot, and saw no loss of communication, no dropped packets, and no spikes in latency. I'm confident that the power on our robot is in good shape after when I did to the robot during testing. In no case would our robot be subject to the abuse I gave it.
Even more troubling is why it worked Friday night when no one else was in the venue, and why it didn't work Saturday morning when we were still the only one on the field powered up.
So yea, why would we connect and drop before the match even began? It seriously sounds like a crowded WiFi channel or a resource conflict on the FMS side of things.