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Re: Driver Station to Dashboard Laptop connection

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
On the other hand, a USB network card connects via USB and you could connect the classmate and second dashboard that way. That is worth clarifying through the FIRST Q/A if you want to go that route.
My understanding is that this is the intended approach if you decide you must run your dashboard on a separate laptop. Screen real estate and independant displays for driver and kicker-operator are the only reasons that I think justify the added complexity. The CPU on the classmate is easily up to the task of running your dashboard... unless you write it exceedingly poorly!

In my opinion, from a software approach, it is best to implement two dashboards... one on the classmate that shows some of your data and also fowards on what data you want to show on the other dashboard. Then the second can just communicate with the first, meaning that the networking is completely up to you since the link between the DS and he Dashboard is independent of the field network.
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