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Re: Networking remote dashboard
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Originally Posted by buchanan View Post
It's a bit unfortunate that what seems to be a reasonable and useful configuration, apparently not prohibited by the letter or spirit of the rules, is effectively prohibited by a practical limitation of the FMS that wasn't revealed until the last minute.

I'm also a little baffled about how the remote dashboard feature on the DS was INTENDED to work. Was it truly understood by anyone that this was a development-only feature that couldn't be supported in competition?
The entire thing seems like a bit of a Catch-22 to me. We'll also be switching over to some sort of proxy system today. It's quite unfortunate that this "feature" of the FMS was never revealed to teams. Echoing buchanan, I don't understand what was intended at all, or if there was some lack of communication higher up in FIRST. Despite over and over giving teams the resources and suggesting procedures for running dashboard software on another laptop, it is now impossible to have a second laptop on the same subnet.
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