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Re: Configuring the CAN bus devices.
Presetting the CAN ID before adding a new Talon SRX to the CAN chain might not be as valuable as you'd think. The webpage is pretty tolerant of common-ID Talon SRXs as explained in the software reference manual, section 2.2. So you can pretty easily find a duplicate and change it's device ID.
If you do want to check each one in a one-at-a-time fashion, you can still use the roboRIO web-page configuration and just insert a single Talon directly into the CAN bus RIO weidmuller connector. It's explained better in section 1.3.4.2 in the Talon User's Guide. What's nice about that is if you're just connecting a single Talon temporarily for the purpose of reflashing/setting ID, you usually can get away without having a second terminating resistor at the free-end of the Talon.
Currently only the NI roboRIO supports the Talon SRX. At some point there will probably be something like non-FRC firmware for Talon SRX so that it can be used outside of competition. The priority right now is making sure Talon SRX's first season in FRC is as successful as possible.
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