A List of Problems

[Mark McLeod]

Did you also update the firmware on the cRIO (V7)?
After the firmware update the DS won't talk to the out-of-the-box cRIO.

[ExarKun666]

No we didn't update, so I'm guessing we do the update through the tether right? And we get the update from the FIRST site... I believe not sure

[ExarKun666]

hold on where do you find the update for the cRIO?

[Mark McLeod]

You get the updates from the FIRST site.

The cRIO update is embedded in the latest LabVIEW Update 2.
After you've installed Update 2, start the "FRC cRIO Imaging Tool" (it'll be on your desktop).

Choose "Format Controller"

Enter a Device Name of "FRC-cRIO-2429"
and enter your team #

It'll take about 5 minutes to complete the update.

P.S. The directions are in the Control System manual section 5.1.2

[ExarKun666]

Okay we updated LabView V2 on the computer, opened up CompactRIO Imaging and it says:

No CompactRIO devices were found. Verify the network connection.

We rescanned the drive, but stil same message, so what should we do?

[Mark McLeod]

Everything's powered up - DS, cRIO?
Everything's connected?
Your PC to the DS ETH2 port
The DS ETH1 port to the cRIO port 1

Your PC is set to an IP of 10.24.29.6
and subnet mask of 255.0.0.0

Firewalls need to be turned off on your PC.
If you have a network card that should be turned off too.
There are a bunch of PC things that block or obstruct network access.

[ExarKun666]

Okay update of both cRIO, and DS is officially over with, yeah!
But now 1 more problem, I hope, and then I think we are good, I realized when I tried to download code, the code didn't go on. To test this theory I flipped the autonomous switch, and the supposed prewritten autonomous didn't run, so I know 100% it's with the target or something, so do you have to set the target, how, and where to? Anything else we should know for downloading code?? TY for the help

[Mark McLeod]

It depends first on what code you started with:
-- LabVIEW Basic or Advanced or one of the examples?
-- Wind River template or example?

When you switch to autonomous does the status light on the Digital Sidecar start to blink by any chance?

If you're using a LabVIEW Basic/Advanced Framework then you set your Target IP when you first create your project. If you forgot to then you'll see it in the Project Explorer as:
"RT CompactRIO Target (10.xx.yy.2)"

[ExarKun666]

Okay we are using WindRiver, example, not template.
So I see on the top bar there is a target option, so I'm not sure what to do... can you help us?

[ExarKun666]

Anyone know how to set the target, using Wind River example?

[Mark McLeod]

Take a look at the C Programming Guide for FRC.pdf to see if that helps you.
It's located on your laptop at: C:\WindRiver\docs\extensions\FRC
Starting on page 13 it describes how to setup the environment and download a program.

An updated copy was installed with the latest Wind River update (http://www.usfirst.org/frccontrolsystem ).

One of the things you need to do is to go to Windows on the top menu bar and select Preferences.
Under Preferences you'll see "FIRST Downloader Preferences" and in there you need to set your team number, and find the ".out" file that your example generates. You can locate it by drilling down through your project files in the Wind River Project Explorer in the upper left window.
The .out will be under whatever project directory you've made. Mine happens to be C:\WindRiver\2009. For instance, I have a Simple Template project and the .out is buried under: C:\WindRiver\2009\SimpleTemplate\PPC603gnu\SimpleT emplate\debug\SimpleTemplate.out

Which of the examples are you using? An FRC one or one of the others that runs a generic C++ program on your PC?

[ExarKun666]

we are using an FRC template.