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Originally Posted by rsegrest
My contention is that you should never plug and unplug the programming computer from the router or cRio when the robot is powered. Period. Turn off the robot, disconnect the battery and then plug and unplug from the router. Or do I not correctly understand how code is uploaded and transferred?
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There's no need to turn everything off to plug in or unplug a ethernet cable. You can leave the robot running and upload code as many times as you want, you just may need to occasionally reboot the cRio.
The real use for a port like this is for the practice field. If you're driving the robot around while it's tethered, or attempting to test autonomous, it's possible (even likely?) that the ethernet cable will get yanked at some point. Even in your pit, it's possible for someone to trip over it. When that happens, you don't want it to break the ports on the router!