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Re: Labview code not in realtime

Directions are given in the FRC_Programming_Guide, page 5-5,
Creating a Stand-Alone FRC Application

You'll find your copy of this on your C drive at:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.5\manuals

In brief here's what you do...

When you open your LabVIEW project you start with the Project Explorer window (I attached a snapshot below).
On that window under "RT CompactRIO Target (10.15.99.02)"
you'll see "Build Specifications" and under that "FRC Basic Robot Deployment" all the way at the very bottom.
(It also might be "FRC Robot Boot-up Deployment" depending on which Framework you started with).


Right click on "FRC Basic Robot Deployment"
-- Choose "Build"

When that's done right click on "FRC Basic Robot Deployment" again to
-- Choose "Run as startup"

When it's all done it'll ask you if you want to reset the cRIO.
-- Choose Yes (or you can also cycle the power on your robot).

Then your PC doesn't have to be attached anymore.

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The PC is only necessary when you use the "Run" button to start everything.
That's only intended to temporarily run your program on the robot just to check out changes quickly.

P.S.
Try it. There may be one or two settings you have to make depending on how you set things up, but you'll get a message about it and we can walk you through those if necessary.

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Originally Posted by camper365 View Post
What word should I use?
Deploy to run at startup.
Real-Time just means the code can run fast enough to keep up with events in the real world. For example, turning when your joystick tells the robot to turn, not when it feels like it sometime later on.
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