On behalf of Team 254, I wanted to thank everybody for your patience with the FMS at Chezy Champs. The e-stop issue, which was experienced by teams at Chezy Champs (using Cheesy Arena) and at SCRRF Fall Classic (using FIRST FMS Lite) seems to be a bug in the driver station software, and is being investigated by National Instruments. At Chezy Champs, we believe that we replayed the matches with e-stop issues where the head referee determined that the outcome of the match was affected. I do not believe that the issue appeared during the elimination matches. For future off-seasons, we recommend that you have each team restart the driver station app prior to each match, as described above by Bill. Our sincere apologies go out to any teams whose matches were missed.
When setting up the field for Chezy Champs, several code changes were made to Cheesy Arena and to the configuration of the advanced networking hardware. None of these changes were in regards to the e-stop issue, which we believe is a driver station bug affecting FMS Lite as well as Cheesy Arena. These changes can be downloaded as a released binary on
Github. For Beach Blitz and CCC, which are using the Chezy Champs hardware, the updated networking configuration is already on the equipment.
As a reminder, if you have any feedback about the event, we'd love to hear it on
this form. From the feedback thus far, it sounds like most teams' experiences were positive, and we've taken some notes on things to improve for next year. In particular, we got very positive feedback for "254 losing", and will be sure to schedule that in next year
. We hope that we will see many of the same teams back next year and that this event continues to grow and improve.
-Nick