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Re: "No Comms"
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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
The new DS update only affects the autonomous enabled mode. You can still read the switches in autonomous disabled (or any other mode). If you latch the data from before the transition to autonomous disabled, you can keep the switches on the DS.
Just a small correction - I think Joe meant to say "If you latch the data from before the transition to autonomous enabled, you can keep the switches on the DS".

I was helping numerous teams with this and some other control system "gotchas" at the NJ regional this past weekend. As long as you read the DS inputs during startup/initialization (while the match is in auto disabled) and save the info somewhere (like a functional global in LabView or a static in C++), then you can use that info during auto enabled. We use DS switches to select which autonomous mode we want to run - much more convenient than having them on the robot.

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Ron
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