[Jeremytice]

Originally Posted by pitzoid

Just a note about FMS communication and robot actions:

You know when the field is aligned for your robot/team when you see your team number on the team sign. Your robot will not be able to sync before this as your bot radio SSID will not be registered in the Field Access Point.

ANYTIME your DS hears an FMS message directed towards it, it will shift into FMS/competition mode, doesn't matter if its link with the bot etc... DS will stay in FMS/competition mode until it is power cycled. If the DS does not shift into FMS mode when connected to the field its one of two things, either its a manufunctioning DS or you are plugged into the wrong team station.

cRio will be disabled till it first talks with DS. NI reps will have to verify if teams can actually override this with errant code, but I know of no way that that can happen.

Thanks for clarifying that up Bob. There was a lot of talk about it in the follow-up call this past Monday with Matt and I must have missed that little part about it.