Using the "Team Use" TCP ports

[tstew]

Originally Posted by pensono

The address of the roboRIO is determined by DCHP. This makes it impossible to know for sure what address to connect to from the laptop. I think the driver station software gets around this by using mDNS, but there's no support for mDNS in something like winsock.

You can give your roboRIO a static IP address through the roboRIO Webdashboard. Then, you can just access the roboRIO through this IP address. mDNS should still work, so I don't think it will break anything.