[BradAMiller]

So when you say that the SmartDashboard doesn't "receive the connection", what exactly do you mean? Are you sending values but they aren't showing up?

Maybe you could try running it manually from a command line to see if there are any exceptions or error messages coming out of the SmartDashboard. Use cmd.exe in windows and type the command:

java -jar smartdashboard.jar

will run it. Let us know what you see.

Brad