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Originally Posted by FrankJ
I know the definitive answer might have to wait for kick off, but no harm in asking. 
Can the 2015 driver station be used with the pre 2015 robots?
Can the 2014 driver station coexist on the same computer as the 2015 DS. We use the IO page on some the robots and I understand that it will be gone on 2015 DS.
The 2015 system uses DHCP & mDNS rather than fixed ip addresses. Where the DHCP going to live when connected to FMS? Will the 2015 system have the option of fixed addresses so it will work with the existing FMS systems. |
Lots of yes's.
You might want to rename the older Driver Station before installing the new one, so that you keep track of which is which.
That also avoids the possibility of overwriting the old DS with the new DS.
Any events using FMS Lite will have to use the '09-'14 communications protocol and the 2015 Driver Station will have an option to switch to the older protocol, although it will default to the new 2015 protocol whenever it first starts up.
The use of DHCP will depend on how your home router or DLink is setup, but static IPs are always accepted.
If using the new DS without DHCP, you will have to set the laptop static IP by hand.
mDNS will not work on older cRIO robots, so they keep their static IPs