Static IPs on the field

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by dvanvoorst

Using static IPs was not an issue last year. As CSA I helped a handful of teams switch everything to static to resolve issues with communicating with their Axis cameras. This was done after consulting with FIRST technical support. This provided consistent camera operation both in the pits and on the field.

A counterpoint from another CSA:

I too helped a few teams go full-static IP in order to get their Axis cameras to work in the pit. In some cases this caused them to fail to get an FMS connection on the field until they set the Driver Station back to dynamic, though we never pinned down exactly why it wouldn't work. The defaults and fallbacks should have made everything happy.

The more stable fix was to keep everything dynamic and reconfigure the camera with the expected "axis-camera" name. This never failed on the field. It was only an issue off the field if the team's computer was one of the few to be unreasonably reluctant to release a DHCP-assigned ID, and the workaround of disabling/reenabling the Ethernet device always worked in that case.