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Re: Communication Between Driverstation and the Robot Main

The Dashboard is for display only. It can show you what the robot is sending, but it can't do anything to change what the robot is receiving.

If you want to change a boolean value during development, you can put a control on the Robot Main front panel, then simply run Robot Main instead of building and deploying it. Part of the build process strips the front panel from the VI, so you won't be able to do that during competition.

If you want to change a boolean value using code you've set to run as startup, you have two options. Either use a physical control on a USB-connected device (joystick, gamepad, or Cypress I/O module), or use one of the emulated Cypress switch inputs in the Driver Station application.