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Re: Joystick Connection Issues

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Originally Posted by markgryzwa View Post
Randomly, in two regional events and one week zero event, we've lost the joystick connection during a match on the field. On a few occasions it recovered. On other occasions we never got back the joystick during the contest.

We can run for hours in practice without ever losing the joystick on cable or wireless. It's a little peculiar as we don't lose robot code nor communication.

Anyone run into similar issues and have success debugging/fixing?

Thanks, Team3206 Royal-T-Wrecks
We had a very similar problem at FLR. As we were setting up the driver station before a match, one of our two gamepads did not show up in the setup tab. We unplugged it, plugged it back in, and clicked F1 (to re-scan for HID's), but nothing worked. What we found is that it was the gamepad itself that was not working and we replaced it.

When a joystick or a gamepad does not seem to be responding, my first reaction is to spam the F1 key while unplugging and re-plugging the device. It's safe to say that I will always keep an extra gamepad with me from now on.
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