The reason you home doesn't require you to enter an IP address is because your router does what is called dynamic host control protocol or DHCP, this automatically assigns you an IP within a set range. The robot on the other hand, doesn't have any piece of equipment that runs this DHCP service, while you can enable it in the router, the Driver station requires a specific IP (10.te.am.5). What I do to avoid navigating through menu after menu to change my settings is write batch files that switch from DCHP to Static IP on my computer and place those as shortcuts on the desktop.
This is the .bat file I have for DHCP
@ECHO OFF
cls
ECHO setting wired adapter and DNS to DHCP
netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" dhcp
netsh interface ip set dns name="Local Area Connection" dhcp
ECHO Done! Compliments of Seth.
Pause
and here is the .bat I have for Static
@ECHO OFF
cls
ECHO Setting defualt FRC Static IP addresses:
ECHO Wired Address: 10.16.25.5
ECHO Subnet: 255.255.255.0
ECHO Gateway: 10.16.25.1
netsh int ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 10.16.25.5 255.0.0.0 10.16.25.1
ECHO Done! Compliments of Seth.
Pause
make sure to configure yours to your team number. If you need help with creating and implementing batch files just ask!!
-Seth
