Restart Robot Code at competition

[engbrech]

We are having trouble initiating our camera setting when we deploy the code (labview for us) such that it starts on power on. Instead of applying the manual setting we want it default to auto exposure.

This doesn't happen when we simply deploy the code from our laptop in interactive mode.

We are baffled to find the reason it works in one instance and not the other and of course this makes us nervous going to competition this weekend.

A work around we have found is simply to "restart robot code" from the dashboard. Takes about 10 seconds and fixes the problem and then we are off and running just fine.

My question is, will I be able to do that at the competition? There should be time but I don't know if the difference in the communication system between competition and our practice scenario will make this impossible.

Obviously I would rather figure out the problem causing the camera to initial correctly at some times an incorrectly at other. But we've been working on that for a while with no joy and if we don't get that sorted out I'd like to know if the work around will work.