No Robot Code

[Diserasta]

Our team has started programming and we have come across a problem. We are using WindRiver C++ and when we deploy our code, the driver station does not recognise the code we deploy or it's not even being found. Was there any specific name the program has to have to be recognised, because to remember having this problem last year, and it having something to do with this.

Thanks in advance!

[Greg McKaskle]

The correct interpretation of the No Robot Code light is that no robot code is running and responding to the protocols in place. The DS has no way to know what is on the disk of the cRIO, and it doesn't try to manage that anyway.

You may want to use an ftp program or even Windows File Explorer to ftp to the cRIO and look at the info on the startup program. You can then rebuild and deploy and see if it is updated. If not, your build is failing in some way.

Another debugging technique is to use the serial cable or netconsole to see if your program starts and promptly exits -- a possibility when using C++.

Greg McKaskle

[Diserasta]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

The correct interpretation of the No Robot Code light is that no robot code is running and responding to the protocols in place. The DS has no way to know what is on the disk of the cRIO, and it doesn't try to manage that anyway.

You may want to use an ftp program or even Windows File Explorer to ftp to the cRIO and look at the info on the startup program. You can then rebuild and deploy and see if it is updated. If not, your build is failing in some way.

Another debugging technique is to use the serial cable or netconsole to see if your program starts and promptly exits -- a possibility when using C++.

Greg McKaskle

Thanks for the info. It was just me being stupid after all, I reflashed with this years cRIO image and it works fine. Dunno what it was 0.o. But problem solved, so all is good.