Thread: Drivestation to Robot without router?
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Re: Drivestation to Robot without router?
Well I know it can be done. We had problems getting our robot and radios to communicate after our regional. DUH..of course, we had not reset anything after the field crew set them to the required settings for the competition.

Still, we had more difficulties than we anticipated, and our veteran computer guy remarked that it seemed easier initially. In perfect 20/20 hindsight we came to this forum and found we were not the only ones who had this issue. We also noticed that teams were trying to bypass the bridge for off season non competition uses, like we are for recruiting and such.

Our solution was probably not elegant, but we simply used the reset button to allow the Router to reset to its defaults, and used the laptop software to recognize and acquire the router. I think the router had been set to the correct ip addresses for the robot per the FRC documentation, so it appears that the bridge is the problem child in our situation.

I may be wrong, this may not be much help to anyone without more detailed information, but we did find out it was possible and our robot seems to work as well as it did previously.

Mike
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