Reboot roboRio After Uploading Code [Java]

[DeeWBee]

Hello!

I am programmer for Team 3630 from Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota. I've run into an interesting issue... I've successfully imaged the roboRio and can upload code to it from Eclipse no problem. But every time I upload code I am forced to reboot the roboRio! I'll upload the code and the DriverStation will show green across the board, but the moment I hit Enable, I magically don't have robot code and the only fix is to reboot the roboRio from the DriverStation. I must be doing something wrong because I was specifcally told I would never have to reboot the roboRio. Any help is appreciated!

Best

[tanguma26]

We had a similar issue last night when we try to get our code into the Rio the only thing that we could see it was that somewhere in the code there was a mistake and after it got fixed we never had that problem again.

Can you put an image of your code maybe we can help you?

[DeeWBee]

This code is dirt simple so I doubt it's a code issue but here you go. We've had this issue from the beginning even with sample code.

package org.usfirst.frc.team3630.robot;
//import the necessary packages for each class 
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.IterativeRobot;
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.RobotDrive; 
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.Joystick;
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.DigitalInput; 
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.Talon;


/**
 * The VM is configured to automatically run this class, and to call the
 * functions corresponding to each mode, as described in the IterativeRobot
 * documentation. If you change the name of this class or the package after
 * creating this project, you must also update the manifest file in the resource
 * directory.
 */
public class Robot extends IterativeRobot {
	//Declare and name the drive train object  
	RobotDrive driveTrain; 
	
	//Declare and name the two joystick objects 
	Joystick leftStick; 
	Joystick rightStick; 
	
	//Declare and name the two front bumper objects 
	DigitalInput leftBumper; 
	DigitalInput rightBumper;
	
	//Declare and name the four motor controllers for the drive train 
	Talon frontLeft; 
	Talon rearLeft; 
	Talon frontRight;
	Talon rearRight; 
	
	
    /**
     * This function is run when the robot is first started up and should be
     * used for any initialization code.
     */
    public void robotInit() {
    	//Construct the two joystick objects 
    	leftStick = new Joystick(1);
    	rightStick = new Joystick(2); 
    	
    	//Construct the two front bumper objects 
    	rightBumper = new DigitalInput(0);
    	leftBumper = new DigitalInput(1); 
    	
    	//Construct the four motor controller objects 
    	frontLeft = new Talon(1);
    	rearLeft = new Talon(2);
    	frontRight = new Talon(3);
    	rearRight = new Talon(4); 
    	
    	//Construct the drive train object 
    	driveTrain = new RobotDrive(frontLeft, rearLeft, frontRight, rearRight); 
    	
    	//Invert the right motors in the drive train 
    	driveTrain.setInvertedMotor(RobotDrive.MotorType.kFrontRight, true);
    	driveTrain.setInvertedMotor(RobotDrive.MotorType.kRearRight, true);
    
    }

    /**
     * This function is called periodically during autonomous
     */
    public void autonomousPeriodic() {

    }

    /**
     * This function is called periodically during operator control
     */
    public void teleopPeriodic() {
    	//Define the drive train as mecanum
    	driveTrain.mecanumDrive_Cartesian(leftStick.getX(), leftStick.getY(), rightStick.getX(), 0);
        
    	//If the right bumper is hit, stop the right motors 
    	if(rightBumper.get() == false) {
        	frontRight.set(0);
        	rearRight.set(0);
        }
    	
    	//If the left bumper is hit, stop the left motors 
    	if(leftBumper.get() == false) {
    		frontLeft.set(0);
    		rearLeft.set(0); 
    	}
    }
    
    /**
     * This function is called periodically during test mode
     */
    public void testPeriodic() {
    
    }
    
}

[gerthworm]

Try opening the Riolog in eclipse, then reset and enable your code. We had similar issues due to null pointer exceptions that crashed the code running on the roboRIO. It was kind enough to print out the issue to the Riolog before dying, though.

I believe the same messages should get sent to the driver station though, I don't know if you're seeing anything there too...

[mail929]

We had a similar problem with the beta. I don't remember if we found a solution but we at least discovered the using the blue reset button was much faster than doing a full reboot.