I have heard at events, read on CD, and seen hints in screensteps that 'advanced' teams connect their driver stations, multiple robots, and multiple programming computers wirelessly through a single home router. Yet I have not seen any instructions that include the robot OM5P-AN or OM5P-AC as configured with the 2017 FRC radio configuration tool which eliminates the radio's manual management interface. Has anyone made this work? How must the home router be configured?
We have a 2017 control system with OM5P-AN wired and all firmware updated. When configured as access point it works fine, but we have had issues in 2015 and 2016 with things working at home but failing when the bridge was reprogrammed at regional events. We want to avoid that drama by testing at home as close as possible to event conditions with the robot radio in bridge mode. Also, we are tired of having to disconnect from the robot each time we need to look something up online.
We have access to several home routers, but started with
https://www.gl-inet.com/ar300m/ Using FMS lite mode in the 2017 FRC radio configuration tool went as expected but the home router never logged a connection with the robot radio. If we just program the robot radio in bridge mode, without FMS lite mode, what conditions is the robot radio expecting at the router? SSID, password, port forwards, etc? Once configured that way, what do we have to do to make everything connect since the robot radio won't be broadcasting a SSID?
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