Transmitting data to the cRIO from the Driver's station via TCP/UDP

[PSHRobotics]

So we tried doing this same thing with out dashboard and robot. Specifically sending three enum values from the dashboard to the robot. We got this working when we were running live on the robot through labview on a development computer. We would get one of the "The loop containing the RobotDrive code is running to slowly" error every once in a while but the code would function almost perfectly.
Once we deployed the code to the robot ("set as startup" after building), however, we started to get "Watchdog not fed" errors that would stop the code. Once we pulled the UDP receive stuff from the code on the robot, everything started working right. We decided to use the digitial inputs on the driverstation instead, but I would like to figure out what we did wrong in the old code. Does anyone have any ideas why this would have happened?