Switching CAN Jaguar Control Modes

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We've got our Jaguar connected via CAN, and we have an encoder and limit switches hooked up to it. We can read the encoder inputs from it (woo!), and the limit switches work correctly too.

We were trying to get the kPosition mode to work correctly, but it doesn't seem to work at the moment quite yet. We were already planning to implement a manual override for our arm, so that works perfectly fine. However, once we switch to kPosition mode, it seems to indicate that it did the switch, but when we switch back to the kPercentVbus mode the motor control doesn't seem to work anymore.

I'm probably going to make a simpler mockup tomorrow morning and try it, but I was wondering if anyone has tried doing this sort of thing before (switching back and forth between different control modes), and if there were any tricks to getting it to work.

Any thoughts? We're using C++/python, but I feel this is probably a language agnostic thing. Thanks!