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Re: Changing autonomous routes through driver's station software

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
To add to this. The information above is correct. The I/O values on that tab will mirror the Cypress settings with a Cypress is plugged in, but are inputs when no Cypress board is used. These virtual I/O values are transmitted to the robot and I believe they are latched during auto. So set them during disabled period before the match starts.

The other approach is to use network tables or smart dashboard variables. This is somewhat more flexible, but not necessarily better.

Greg McKaskle
Do I infer from this that at least one DS packet is sent to the robot at the beginning of Autonomous?

We had a problem last year when our autonomous code was looking for a motor speed from the DS via an SD call. In testing, autonomous worked fine. On the field, it never did anything.

Maybe I just answered my own question. Does the DS data get sent in autonomous, while the SD data is not?

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