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you probably want to test it the way it will be in the real competition. Make a “competition port dongle”. Basically it’s a 15 pin solder cup with a short piece of wire coming off of it. On it, you can add fancy switches if you like, but I just made mine in a hurry, so it only has bare wires that you short together. If you look on the innovation first web site, they have a document to that explains the pinout of the competition port. On there, there are a few things, if i remember correctly, there are 3 described functions. One is the disable, autonomous activate, and practice mode; which enables the use of multiple channels. There are also some other pins on here that they don't tell you about. For one, i think power can be supplied through the competition port. I went to a practice match were they did not do this and they had external power supplies at every station. The problem with this, is that people have no reason to use the competition port. One could just unplug the competition port and still run their robot. Also, as a side note, if you plan to use the function/pin labeled "practice" which enables multiple channels, you should restart the operator interface WITH this pin shorted. After it starts, and the channel is changed, you can remove the practice pin if you like.