[mjcoss]

If the smart dashboard is bypassing the cRIO when accessing the camera, then it's hard to imagine how it would cause an issue with the cRIO. For us, there is no code on our cRIO that has anything to do with the camera. The camera is accessed by the driver station and completely bypasses the cRIO.

The driver station can be overwhelmed, run the task manager and see what is happening when it's connecting to the camera. Can you access it via a browser from the driver station? with no noticeable lag?

Now there is another way to run things, where you let the cRIO capture the camera data, and send it out. But then you'd be connecting to the cRIO not the camera for the video feed. This would mean that you'd have code that handles the streaming video. This will put load on the cRIO, and is unnecessary if you're access the camera directly.

If you have the capabilities, you could hook a network sniffer to capture the traffic to the driver station. There may be some clue there.