How to run wo robots at the same time

[acastagna]

My team is doing an off-season event where we are entering two robots. Does anyone have any advice on how to configure the radio/roborio so both robots can compete at the same time?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by acastagna

My team is doing an off-season event where we are entering two robots. Does anyone have any advice on how to configure the radio/roborio so both robots can compete at the same time?

Contact the organizers of the event. You'll set the second robot up under a different number. FMS this year is littered with more persnicketiness on what numbers you can use; if they can get in touch with their FTA, it'll make it easier.

(When we did SCRIW this year, we had a team running 8101 as their number since they couldn't use the next-number-up approach most teams do; that next number was another team competing! Except FMS won't take a number above 7000 this year unlike last year, so we had them configure their roboRIO and radio as 4101 instead. Everything else flowed fine; with 22 teams, we knew what was going on and just connected the dots.)

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Except FMS won't take a number above 7000 this year unlike last year, so we had them configure their roboRIO and radio as 4101 instead. Everything else flowed fine; with 22 teams, we knew what was going on and just connected the dots.)

I've seen offseasons this year with teams numbered 9XXX; did they use a different version of the FMS? It appeared that they used the normal version.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by ctt956

I've seen offseasons this year with teams numbered 9XXX; did they use a different version of the FMS? It appeared that they used the normal version.

I can't say what they did. Some hypotheses:

1) They're using 9XXX on the bumpers and plugging in another number elsewhere.
2) They're not using FIRST's standard FMS, the kind that is used during the season. (Cheezy Arena, perhaps? The lack of LED seven-segment displays on this picture is a tell for me.)
3) They knew something that our FTA (who was on event #19 of the season) didn't.

(full disclosure: SCRIW's FTA was also my coworker at AndyMark)

[acastagna]

Thanks! I'll contact the event organizers to see what numbers are acceptable.