Wireless Communication Setup (Home & Competition)

[Mark McLeod]

Normal operation at home would be to connect wirelessly for ease of driving freely. It can be handy to have the DLink serve DHCP for both the roboRIO and the PC, but even without that the DLink will usually work with just about any settings, even the default factory settings.

Try this for wireless robot operation:

• On your PC, wireless needs to be Enabled and set to DHCP.
• The Ethernet adapter can be Disabled to simplify this testing or at least set to DHCP if you want to tether directly to the robot DLink.
• On the PC there is a list of AP's the PC wireless has found. Do you see your team number listed as one of the available networks?
• Does your PC label any other network access point as "Connected"? If so then you need to Disconnect from it and Connect to your team number AP.
• After Connecting your PC to your team number network, the message should be "No Internet Access" or "Limited network access." That would be normal, since the robot's AP isn't normally connected to the Internet.
• Start the Driver Station app and on the Diagnostics tab (second one down on the left) you will see a list under "Pinging..." See what gets a green light in that list. It should be green for Bridge and Robot.

[SaMSoNhs]

I want to thank all of you for the answers. Thanks to you I was able to setup wireless communication successfully today.

@adammiller3122
Troubleshoot suggested me to reset the access point, but resetting did not help.

@timytamy
I followed your suggestions and it worked!

@Mark McLeod
After following instructions at the previous post, I was able to connect AP(which is named as my team number)