2016 Beta Software Access

[frcguy]

The situation is that our team built a chassis with the full 2015 control system except substituting the dlink access point for the Openmesh one that is new for 2016. We are now having problems with wifi control (the robot intermittently connects to driver station) that we haven't been able to pin down, and at this point we are thinking that the problem is with the configuration of the Openmesh AP. On WPIlib's 2016 Control System site, they link to a page for the FRC Radio Configuration Utility on TeamForge, but there is no download there, just a blank release page. We are essentially asking if there is a place we can get that software to image the AP, or someone with experience can help us adjust the AP, which is currently running openWRT, settings so we can use wifi and the driver station to have a basic functioning robot to play around with. I totally understand if you cannot share any software or the like, but can you suggest any steps to take to troubleshoot the connectivity issues? We are completely stuck at this point. Thanks in advance!

[EmileH]

Originally Posted by frcguy

The situation is that our team built a chassis with the full 2015 control system except substituting the dlink access point for the Openmesh one that is new for 2016. We are now having problems with wifi control (the robot intermittently connects to driver station) that we haven't been able to pin down, and at this point we are thinking that the problem is with the configuration of the Openmesh AP. On WPIlib's 2016 Control System site, they link to a page for the FRC Radio Configuration Utility on TeamForge, but there is no download there, just a blank release page. We are essentially asking if there is a place we can get that software to image the AP, or someone with experience can help us adjust the AP, which is currently running openWRT, settings so we can use wifi and the driver station to have a basic functioning robot to play around with. I totally understand if you cannot share any software or the like, but can you suggest any steps to take to troubleshoot the connectivity issues? We are completely stuck at this point. Thanks in advance!

Have you followed AndyMark's instructions for imaging the AP for 2015 home use?

http://files.andymark.com/OM5P-AN_QuickAP_Setup.pdf

[david.e.boles]

I did follow all of those instructions, and that shouldn't be the problem as it has worked and then not with no settings changed...

P.S. Our post on that subject is here.

[Mark McLeod]

The 2016 radio kiosk application would do you no good without the matching 2016 FRC specific firmware.

The OpenMesh radio will have DHCP enabled serving IP addresses in the common FRC range, e.g., 10.te.am.20 and higher.
Both the roboRIO and the Driver Station laptop typically get their IP's from this.
The IPs can resort to default values, like in the pit use, but you can get conflicts this way on an open network.