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Originally Posted by Jared
I've experienced three or four delays on the field from our team so far, all of which were caused by issues with mDNS.
The laptop will say "FMS Connected, correct station", and our robot will show up as connected with the battery voltage and everything, but the field people cannot see that our laptop is connected. We must disable/enable the network adapter, restart the driver station software, and sometimes even restart the robot.
I've also noticed similar things happening to our alliance partners, where their laptops don't connect to the field, and they have to restart things or try connecting and disconnecting again and again to connect to the field.
The field seems to always connect to the robots in the end, but this year, it seems to take longer on average for all teams to get full communications.
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We have had this problem as well, but to a greater degree. So far we have only been fully connected to the field without issues for one match (and during that match our alliance partner ran into our driver station wall and our robot somehow disconnected again...). We had a practice robot which ran with very minimal problems for 20+ hours. The transfer of parts over was smooth and yet somehow we have stacked 1 tote in 7 matches because our robot has been rapidly disconnecting and reconnecting. With 20+ hours of driver experience I was sure hoping for a better showing than that. For reference we had 5 CSA's in our pit for over an hour on Thursday night and the problem was never resolved. I'm a little frustrated but hope my team can turn it around for our final 3 matches today so all of our hard work wasn't for almost nothing for no competiton results. I'll most likely do a long writeup about my experience with Recycle Rush after today.