Programming for TalonSRX without RoboRIO?

[Greg McKaskle]

I can give a partial answer, but you will get much more detailed info from CTRE.

The CAN devices allowed on FRC robots are running a firmware that relies on safety tokens on the roboRIO to provide an extra level of safety. If the robot is Estopped or disabled, the CAN devices need to go into safe mode, even when they have been told to do closed loop operations like position control. So you will not only want to set the CAN IDs, but you will want to install different offseason firmware to get rid of the dependency on the NI FRC_Comms library that provides the safety tokens.

It may in fact be the easiest to use the roboRIO to connect to the talons for imaging and ID setting, but other CAN bridges could be used. This is where they could list more alternatives than I can.

Have fun with your project.
Greg McKaskle