Robot Coms Issues

[TomH]

UPDATE: Mounted the cRIO on our test board and got it set up. Imaged it with Java v43 and with a simple code, as well as last years working code. After disabling the firewalls on my laptop, I could successfully flash code. Still have 2 red lights/dots for comms and robot code on the classmate driver station and the one I installed on my laptop. Both projects still came with the issue. Classmate is a 10.0.87.5 and my laptop is on .6. I have been able to ping the cRIO, as well as access it via FTP. Everything right now is wired via ethernet cables (crossover), the cable from the DLink to the cRIO I am not sure if its crossover. Also, before imaging, I did make sure the DLink was configured correctly. Any ideas?

I want to mention one other thing. The signal light on the robot did the same thing it did last night. When there was no DS connected, it was flashing fast, when the DS was connected, it flashed slowly. So I think the cRIO sees the DS, but the DS doesn't see the cRIO fully. Not sure if that helps at all.

Thanks,
Tom H

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by TomH

I want to mention one other thing. The signal light on the robot did the same thing it did last night. When there was no DS connected, it was flashing fast, when the DS was connected, it flashed slowly. So I think the cRIO sees the DS, but the DS doesn't see the cRIO fully. Not sure if that helps at all.

That's an unusual enough symptom that I suspect something more than user error. On the Diagnostics tab of the Driver Station, what do the Communication "LEDs" show?

You might try running the Driver Station program on your programming laptop and see if that gets a good connection.

[TomH]

Already tried the Driver Station on the programming laptop and no luck. I recall seeing the robot having a green light on the diagnostics page. Won't be able to look at it for another few hours.