Axis camera IP changes during the game

[Chris Hibner]

[minor rant]

It's very unfortunate that using static IPs is has become obfuscated. It pretty much cost us the first 3/4 of our first event as I stupidly believed that static IPs wouldn't work and/or were against the rules. It would be nice if the documentation was explicit, or at least it said somewhere that it is okay to do it if you follow these guidelines.

[/minor rant]


[important part]

After I read on chiefdelphi.com that people were using static IDs and it was indeed allowed, I then looked for what IDs we could use. That wasn't easy to find. When I finally found what I was looking for, it is stupidly simple. So here it goes:

1) Find the documentation for the FRC control system from 2014 (or earlier). 2) Set the IPs as described. 3) Profit

[sub minor rant]What bothered me is that they could have just said "you can continue to use the same static IP ranges from past years".[/sub minor rant]

For those without past years' documentation, here it is:

Set roboRIO to 10.xx.yy.2
Set driver station to 10.xx.yy.5
Set camera 1 to 10.xx.yy.11
Set camera 2 to 10.xx.yy.12

(where xx.yy is your team number, so 2112's roboRIO would be 10.21.12.2 and team 51's would be 10.00.51.2).