[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Tayo

Okay, thanks. That should answer our question. We were just unsure if the robot could get DIO values from the Dashboard during autonomous mode-- we wanted to create a type switch on the dashboard to toggle between the 3 different starting positions.

As mentioned above, the robot cannot read new (changed) values from the driver station during autonomous. However, all of the Driver Station inputs (including joysticks, gamepads, etc.) can be read while the robot is disabled. An autonomous program can be selected by using the Driver Station input devices (e.g. joysticks, gamepads, etc.) while the robot is disabled before the match starts. Our team has used this approach for autonomous program selection (and setting of program parameters) ever since 2006. We use the Driver Station display to show the ID of the currently selected program and any parameters to the program.