Detecting connection to FMS

[chris.boyle]

Is it possible to determine if we are connected to the FMS or running locally? I am trying to help a team control their off-board compressor.

R80 - Compressed air on the ROBOT must be provided by one and only one compressor. Compressor specifications may not exceed nominal 12VDC, 1.05 cfm flow rate. Off-board compressors must be controlled and powered by the ROBOT.

My thought is that if we can determine if (at startup) we are connected to the FMS, then any code related to the compressor would not be run (Open & Control Loop), thus avoid generating and reference errors during a match. I have searched the WPI palettes and only find the alliance color and position.

They have implemented a manual approach to this problem for now, check for the existence of a file in begin.vi and use that to run the compressor code. This method requires a file to be copied to the cRIO, then reboot it, let it fill the air tanks, then delete it from the cRIO, reboot it again, before placing the robot on the field.

To many possibilities for mistakes and causing errors during a match.