Wifi at St Joseph Event

[Ryan_Todd]

As a CSA (both FRC and FTC) who's spent countless hours wrestling with "the wifi problem" and related issues, I am ECSTATIC about the prospect of having a well-managed public wifi option at any venue, let alone all venues!

There is simply no better way to guarantee that the robots' preferred frequency bands are kept clear, than by providing free wifi outside of those bands. (Not to mention that teams won't need to set up hotspots, burn through their data plans, and cause additional interference whenever they arrive to discover that their firmware is out of date!)

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Ryan_Todd

[b]As a CSA ... (Not to mention that teams won't need to set up hotspots, burn through their data plans, and cause additional interference whenever they arrive to discover that their firmware is out of date!)

Yes, that was a frustration during robot inspection. The orange hat guys at FiM Week 2 Districts were kept hopping, Thursday night and Friday morning. Free, professionally managed WIFI reduced the strain considerably when the word started to spread that updates were required.

[ATannahill]

I was a CSA this past weekend and the only software I needed to update any team to that is not installed with the driver station is the driver station. What I mean is that if you have installed the driver station you have the PDP, PCM and Talon SRX firmware in C:\Users\Public\Documents\FRC. The roboRIO image is at C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2015\project\roboRIO Tool\FRC Images and firmware is at C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\Firmware\cRIO\76F2.

During the entire weekend the only thing that needed to be be obtained otherwise was the update suite for the 16.0.2 DS which I had and the LRI had on a few flash drives and the radio configuration utility to load the radio firmware, which teams should have done before coming to the competition.

The other points made are still valid, but I wanted to post this information so people don't have to search out an internet connection or create a hotspot to get the files they already have.