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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa
Procedure for robot startup:
Across all of FRC worldwide, we had some issues with robots establishing connections with their robots. FIRST is aware of this, and is working on improving things. We have the following procedure for you to follow. This involves steps your team MUST take in order to successfully connect your driver station to your robot through the FMS.
0) Power your robot off before you enter the field.
1) Connect driver station to field using provided cable
2) Verify that DS says "Connected to FMS" in the status area
3) Signal your team to turn on robot (this may happen while robot being positioned)
4) Stay with your drivers station. The FTA’s are watching, and will know if you are having issues.
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I feel happy to have been a part of having solved this problem. We found out about it in a practice match and recreated the problem in the pits. It only seems to be an issue when connected to the field or when tethered.
We used network tables and it seems that they can read from the robot but not write to them unless you follow the above procedure. It had us worried for a bit that the fancy control box we used was going to be a paper weight until we found that boot up procedure that worked.