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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
The OM5P-AN "robot radio" was a (very slightly qualified) success. Though the way some teams chose to mount them exposed a potential susceptibility to repeated impacts in one direction, the on-field performance was much more than satisfactory. Choosing a device with open firmware (rather than one with unanalyzable proprietary software) worked great. It was especially nice to be able to power it via the Ethernet connector.
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From what my various FTA buddies tell me, IIRC, thanks to the open firmware (DDWRT based), next year they'll have bootup in the ballpark of 15 seconds, simply because they can streamline the firmware that much. They would have gotten it done this year but there wasn't enough time to fully debug and prove it.
On that note, I'll also praise another nice thing about the new radios: Prioritized bandwidth throttling! No more Xmas trees (minus ones caused by wifi interference
) and any ill effects are isloated to the robot in question in a way that will, at worst, kill a camera stream (or some other non-essential dashboard function).
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