Driver Station Freezing

[Jared]

Our driver station is often freezing when we connect to the field, and we were wondering if any teams had experienced similar issues or found solutions. It's causing an issue with our joysticks.

The first time it happened, the driver station froze as soon as it connected to the FMS. I could click on the tabs on the left, but the driver station did not change tabs. The battery voltage display was still changing, so we still had a connection with the robot. When the practice match started, our robot did not enable, but we knew we still had connection with the robot because we could see the battery voltage change.

After using the task manager to close the DS and opening it again, we could see that we had connected to the robot, but we had no connection with the FMS. The FTA was very confused as to how we could be plugged into the field, reading sensors from our robot, and had the option to enable the robot, but we did not see FMS connected on the DS, and the FMS did not see either the robot or the laptop.

We've had more freezes of the DS while playing competition matches, but the robot still enabled and we could control it. Interestingly, the SmartDashboard stops working when the DS freezes.

The big problem is that when the DS is frozen, we can't switch our joysticks if they come up in the wrong order, which happens from time to time, and we won't be able to drive the robot. Closing and opening the driver station application doesn't solve the problem either.