Feedback on using driver station software on another machine

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Roger

It turns out that for whatever reason any 192.11.yy.zz connections were ignored by the FMS.

Anything beginning with 192 is going to be ignored, and quite properly so. The FRC control system uses IP addresses in the 10.xx.yy.zz range.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The FRC control system uses IP addresses in the 10.xx.yy.zz range.

Where, of course xx.yy is your team number (for me, 11.24) and zz is .05 (for the driver station)

[Roger]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Anything beginning with 192 is going to be ignored, and quite properly so. The FRC control system uses IP addresses in the 10.xx.yy.zz range.

My mistake. As I said there were FMS experts working on this and they tracked it down.

Until I hear differently, that classmate is our driver station.

[mesamb1]

Read reviews about connecting to networks if your getting a new laptop.

I installed the driver station on my personal laptop(HP Pavilion dv5) for Smokey Mountain and ran into some network connection issues. However, it wasn't the program faults but the junk hardware that HP installed.

Dont forget that coding is light on the processor(I know many a team who code solely on their classmates). Battery life and USB ports are far more important, and your drivers would surely appreciate a large screen.

[Dr Theta]

Thanks everyone, this is great information.