[rod@3711]

I had tried the connection indicator and it stayed RED. I tried assigning a different team number, then reassigning 3711. It stayed the same. I finally gave up and went home.

This morning, I restarted both roborio and PC and it worked. A little dissatisfying, since we had done that multiple times yesterday.

I will write this off to a flakey PC.

One followup on Smart Dashboard. This is a repeat question from last year. If we delete smartdashboard.xml and start smart dashboard, the non-test mode buttons and indicators spread out randomly, while the test mode widgets stack on one another. When we edit and rearrange the buttons and widgets, everything is ok. If we save the layout either via SAVE or by saving upon exit, the next time we start smart dashboard. the new layouts are saved and non-test mode indicators look ok, but the test mode widgets are mostly blank. To get past this we usually delete smartdashboard.xml when we want to use test mode.

I am a strong advocate of Robot Builder and Smart Dashboard for getting rookie programmers started, but I lose credibility when so many unexplainable things happen.