Connection issues at regionals

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Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I assume that you mean the Comm light on the actual roboRIO, not on the DS. My first idea is that you have two instances of the driver station software running on your computer, possibly in different user accounts. I suggest you do a restart of your computer while in the queue to avoid this issue.

Yes the Comms light on the roboRIO were on but not on the DS, and I doubt there were two instances because it happened across regionals/days/matches were we restarted the power many times.

Originally Posted by SuperBK

Going with my standard response: Make sure the firewall is turned off on the drivers station. Before we turned it off, I would see driver's station Com light turn green after rebooting the Roborio.

What version of windows is the driver's station?

Also, we switched to static IP addresses.

Brian

Originally Posted by Jpatterson1710

That's funny, because as an FTAA my first step to troubleshoot issues at the DS is to make sure its set to DHCP.

The firewall on the DS is off and runs Win7. The FTAA did in fact tell us to switch the DS to DHCP (not in SD though).

If it helps we have the ethernet to the roboRIO connected through the port furthest away from the power. Also we did try experimenting with using a ethernet switch to test our camera in the pit. In the pit we had to switch to static IPs (had last octet was 40) and switch to DHCP on the field.