[KenWittlief]

best thing to do is to wire up the auton and disable switches as the post above suggested

then you will be using auton mode exactly the same as it will be used at the regionals

if you kludge some special user interface switch and let your own code decide when its suppose to run auton mode

you may end up like many teams last year, who thought they had auton mode working great, but it would not work with the FIRST equipment on the field.

The 'competition port' switch setup is the only way to go.