Using IFI Controller witout Operator System

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

I definitely remember testing autonomous modes in 2003 by setting the team number dipswitches on the RC to zero.

Yes, you're right. The 2003 PBASIC controller supports this (but only the 2003 controller). 2002 and prior does not.

You can read the RC reference guide for the 2003 controller here.

[pafwl]

Please review my post on the first page. You do not have to run this in autonomous mode. It will run fine by your code in normal mode.

The difference in autonomous mode is a bit is set on called autonomous_mode. If this is 1 then your code takes over control of the robot.

If the bit is not on then you allow the controlls to operate the robot. But you can allow you code to run the robot all the time by itself without anyone operating it.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by pafwl

Please review my post on the first page. You do not have to run this in autonomous mode. It will run fine by your code in normal mode.

That's not what the poster is asking for. He wants to run it without the OI - your post does not provide an answer for that.

Originally Posted by RyanN

Does anyone know how to do this with a 2003 or earlier RC that runs PBASIC? I have one right here (since I know how to program PBASIC and not C) and would love to run it without the operator interface but team zero isn't working for me...

[RyanN]

Thanks everybody for the replies! I've been waiting on this information. I definitely have a pre 2003 controller (either 2001 or 2002 since 2003 and 2000 are still in use) I like the older controllers because I'm not familiar with C at all and I'm pretty fluent with PBASIC since I used BOE-Bots while testing stuff. I would just use the BOE with this, but it simply doesn't have enough ports. I guess I'll have to finally move up to C this summer. But the 2003 controller has autonomous? Wow, I never knew that... I just reprogrammed our 2003 robot after having to get it working earlier this year but I never saw anything about the autonomous. Oh well... So If I use the 2005 or 2006 controller, will I have to initially start the RC with the OI before becoming completely autonomous, or will it automatically start up without an OI?

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by RyanN

So If I use the 2005 or 2006 controller, will I have to initially start the RC with the OI before becoming completely autonomous, or will it automatically start up without an OI?

You will need the OI only once, connected to the RC by tether cable, in order to set the team number to zero. After that, the RC will always run autonomously until you change the team number back to something non-zero using the same method.

[RyanN]

Cool, thanks!