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Re: Is Alliance/Position automatically set by the FMS?

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Originally Posted by lollypop2020 View Post
Aha! That's very helpful. So for our robot's actual starting position on the field, I know we can use a toggle switch on our robot, but would it work to have a toggle switch on the driver's station(likely joystick buttons)? We would need it to update before autonomous and I'm not sure if the robot can read values from the joysticks before teleop.
The robot can read from the joystick buttons and DS I/O every time except autonomous enabled.