Driven Station options?

[levydev]

Hello,
I'm a first year mentor and would like to gain some insight as to the options the team has in configuring their Operator Interface. From what I understand, the OI's LabView Driver Station is locked down for safety reasons. That makes sense from the perspective of how and when the Driver Station makes communication out to the robot control system. But what are the options for the Driver Station's inputs. From what I can see Labview has the ability to recognize USB joystick inputs as well as inputs from a Cypress board.

Is it possible to configure the LabView Driver station to receive other inputs - i.e. from a usb connection to an Arduino board , or a labview vi that receives inputs from a socket, or possibly via a java api?

I know there are options for configuring the OI Dashboard but have heard that can only be used for outputs from the Driver Station.

Unfortunately , I can't launch my expired eval of LabView until the team receives its license, and thus an unable to poke around. )

Thanks,
-David