Working Driver Station for Linux

[demosthenes2k8]

Originally Posted by spat

The latest version of the QDriverStation does the following to get mDNS working:

• It uses the operating system's functions to obtain the robot IP from a mDNS address.
• Implements a built-in mDNS responder class, which works most of the times (at least with our team's robot). However, the built-in mDNS is very, very basic.

TLDR; mDNS should work even if you don't have a package that supports it.

I ended up getting regular mDNS working - after some fidgeting with settings, I set my ethernet adapter connection to Link-Local. After that I have to run avahi-discover every time I connect the cable, but I can work with the robot now.

I've been trying out QDriverStation, and getting an interesting issue saying that the roboRIO is responding to ping, but not the protocol...Time to debug why.