Help please! Can Robots be turned on in queue prior to Matches?

[Kevin Sevcik]

You'll never be able to legally maintain a connection from the pit all the way to running a match on the field. In the pit, you MUST only communicate with the robot on tether. On the field your robot is wireless and your driver station is connected to the wireless network through a wired LAN connection. I can think of no way for your driver station to stay linked to your robot through this process unless you're illegally wirelessly communicating with your robot. Or, i suppose, if you have two lan ports and do something exceedingly weird and clunky that's likely to be a huge delay of the game.

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

You'll never be able to legally maintain a connection from the pit all the way to running a match on the field. In the pit, you MUST only communicate with the robot on tether. On the field your robot is wireless and your driver station is connected to the wireless network through a wired LAN connection. I can think of no way for your driver station to stay linked to your robot through this process unless you're illegally wirelessly communicating with your robot. Or, i suppose, if you have two lan ports and do something exceedingly weird and clunky that's likely to be a huge delay of the game.

I believe they are configuring it via the wired LAN, then disconnecting to connect to the field. I think their only requirement is that the robot itself stay on, not the DS.

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

I don't suppose you could write an AutoHotKey script or something to set it up for you?

+1 for AHK, but it seems to be a robot configuration problem. I do wonder what the Kinect is connected to - Rasb-pi?
If you ever need any AHK help, please let me know.