[Radical Pi]

I have never seen this issue on our DS. We were at 2 regionals (FLR and philly). At both regionals I was always sleeping the classmate before each match to save battery. At FLR we had the cypress plugged into the usb hub along with 2 other joysticks (KOP I believe), the hub being plugged in with only the black cable. For philly, the cypress was on the 2nd classmate port and it was being removed before each sleep. In software, the only changes from the default setup were using a custom dashboard, but no data was being sent by the robot (was used for the camera only, no tracking data). I had also bypassed the lockout on task manager in Driver mode for debugging early in the season and never bothered to re-enable it. We did lose connection once or twice on the field, but I believe that was related to our broken ethernet port, since it never happened again after we duct-taped an extension cable to our port.

At FLR though, our two alliance partners in quarterfinals could not connect to the field, but seemed to be tethering fine. One of them got a new classmate after the first match and was able to play in the second. I'm not 100% sure this is true, but I think I saw the default dashboard on both of their robots, and both were using the cypress, and I think they may have slept too.

Has anyone checked to see what happens if a classmate is waked up when the ethernet cord is plugged in? I was having our drivers make sure the classmate was fully running before plugging into the field.

On another note, would it be possible for NI to release an optional update to the DS that includes the cypress fix so that it can be gone for the remaining offseason events?