Thread: Are we required to use the new control system?
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Re: Are we required to use the new control system?
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Originally Posted by plnyyanks View Post
I don't expect the FMS to be changing much, at least from a communication protocol standpoint. Teams have used their beta hardware at competitions have have run with the existing FMS.

I doubt there will be any compatibility issues between the 2015+ FMS and the cRIOS, but I still don't foresee the cRIO being competition legal* (especially since all teams will be getting new hardware in their kits)

/speculation

* Of course, we'll have to wait for the actual rules to be released
2014 and 2015 will have different and incompatible communications protocols. We had a RoboRio team at an offseason event that they forgot to switch to 2014(the beta software defaults to 2015) before a match and it took us a while to figure out the cause. Every time they linked it immediately crashed FMS.
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