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Unread 16-02-2015, 16:53
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Re: Intermittent Disconnect from Robot

While we no longer have the 'packet drops every 8 seconds' problem, we have seen some unusual behavior.

That is, on rare occasion, we'll get in a mode with heavy, heavy packet loss. You'll see the comm light flicker red/green, and the log will show lots of packet loss.

Our current theory is that it has to do with the smart dashboard getting out of sync with the roborio. The method we've used that has worked (so far; we've only had it 2-3 times) is to power down the roborio, close *every* program on the driver station (particularly the smart dashboard and driver station), and then start clean.

We may be behind a rev on our software as well; we're going to check that shortly. There have been fairly recent (i.e. within the past week) updates that I think we missed. I can't find a detailed changelog to sense whether or not this was covered in it, though.

Cheers,

Jeremy
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