Home use FMS

[Bryan Herbst]

You can get the offseason FMS here.

Be sure to read the user's guide- you will definitely want to read it to get as close as possible to the same network configuration as the field.

That being said, you won't be able to easily replicate the exact conditions of the field. The full FMS does a lot of fancy work to set up subnets for each team, closes off many ports, and a few other things.

Some scenarios (such as your laptop thinking the network is a "public" network as Alan mentioned) are also hard to trigger at home because they are very dependent on the network itself (though in that case disabling the firewall globally will fix it for all networks).

[plnyyanks]

Another good resource is the FMS Whitepaper, which explains how the networking is set up.

The gist of it:
- Each team is on its own VLAN, so one team's robot/DS can't communicate with anything except FMS.
- Additionally, FMS only allows the ports specified in the manual though (so if you really care to mimic it, you can setup your own firewall and only whitelist the given ports). Otherwise, just ensure to disable the firewall on your DS entirely, so it doesn't block things it shouldn't, like mentioned above.
- The field AP robot radio enforces a 7 megabit/second bandwidth cap. You can enable this while the radio is programmed for home use, as well

Aside from that, there's no substantial difference between the field network and a home network. After all, it's all "just a network", even on the field.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

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- The field AP enforces a 7 megabit/second bandwidth cap. You can enable this on your robot radio to match the field.

Aside from that, there's no substantial difference between the field network and a home network. After all, it's all "just a network", even on the field.

One minor note. IIRC, With the Open Mesh radio, the bandwidth limiting is performed on the radio, not the FMS.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by billbo911

One minor note. IIRC, With the Open Mesh radio, the bandwidth limiting is performed on the radio, not the FMS.

Yeah, you're right, I'll edit my post. Thanks for the correction!