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Re: New Control System Problems

If you install LabVIEW on a computer beforehand, the setup and the bench tests takes ~3-4 hours.

Here's an approximate breakdown, with plenty of slack:
Unboxing, wiring: 2h
Bench tests: 1h
Updating cRIO and DS (+setting team number) : .5h
Configuring the bridge, router, and camera: .5h

A lot of these can be done simultaneously if you know what you're doing (updating cRIO and DS at the same, configuring wireless at the same time), so you can save some time.

We made the mistake of not installing the software beforehand, though. On top of that, we had an old version of LabVIEW installed. The uninstalling took over an hour, and the reinstalling ran for a good two hours. We only had a three hour meeting on our first day with the cRIO, so we did everything beyond updating the DS on the next day since we did not have LabVIEW ready to update the cRIO. If we had installed LabVIEW beforehand, we could've finished the entire thing in our three hour meeting.