Robot Loses Connection

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

My explanation for the blinking ping results is that another device not he network has the same IP address.

Greg, I don't think this is the case. In my experience these lights always flash green when the Diagnostics tab is left open, as long as the DS is connected to a network. I haven't tried Wiresharking to compare the green flash to the actual pings, but I would guess based on the frequency that the flash occurs each time the DS re-pings the devices.

BlacksmithWoods, I would recommend ignoring the DS radio and Birdge lights blinking. I don't think that is related to your actual issue.

[Greg McKaskle]

In my experience, they shouldn't flash. The exact command line being executed to ping is ...

ping -n 1 -w 150

When the Diagnostics panel is open, the pings are run on each device one after the other once a second and the display is updated after all of them complete. They shouldn't flash unless some of the pings timeout or fail. Perhaps there are other reasons for the ping failure, but in our office, every time I've seen it, it was due to conflicting IPs.

Greg McKaskle