Accessing files on the driver station laptop from the robot

[GuyM142]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I suppose you could run an ftp server on the Driver Station computer and have the robot program connect and transfer the file. That does mean you will have to delay the initialization of your robot program until after there is a network connection.

If you are considering Network Tables at all, why not just use a Dashboard program to read the file and publish Network Tables variables for the configuration parameters? I think the Java SmartDashboard will do that sort of thing for you.

Why don't you want to put the file on the robot itself? I can think of a couple of ways to make doing that less of a hassle, the easiest of which might be to use a simple batch file to copy the file from the Driver Station computer to the robot filesystem after you've made changes to it.

1. Is there a way I can make sure that everything that is working at home will work with field setup as well? That's my biggest concern.
2. I remember reading about a team which tried to do that and had problems (with over 100 parameters). I will search for it.
3.I didn't know it was possible, how can it be done with a batch file?