FMS-lite / cheezy-arena - having trouble getting driver station to show up

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by billbo911

One quick question. Why would you want a default gateway at that address (10.0.100.1)? That address only gets you access to the internet. I usually don't even bother adding a default gateway on the RoboRio.



The RoboRio is only communicating with the DS and maybe an off board Vision processor or camera. All of which should be on the same subnet. Thus, 255.255.255.0 would be the correct subnet mask for the RoboRio.

Now, the DS needs to be able to receive and respond to commands from FMS, thus the DS's subnet mask needs to be 255.0.0.0.

+1 to everything Bill said. Gateway is only useful if you have your roboRio connected to a LAN and need to point it to where it can access the internet, which you don't.

[Mark Noworolski]

Agreed. I was simply following all the steps described elsewhere in other threads, lest somebody bring up not configuring the GW :-)

Perhaps this is what made the Rio GUI insist on 255.0.0.0. No matter at this point, of course.

Team reports that the Autonomous worked in this configuration - so crossing fingers for calgames.

Again, thanks for the help.

[RufflesRidge]

Does your autonomous use SmartDashboard? Particularly the Sendable Chooser?

The FMS flag being set does very little to change how user code runs, but the startup/connection order and network (which is more difficult to recreate) can.