Driver Interface

[BradAMiller]

I believe that connecting another device to the 2nd ethernet port on the cRIO is legal provided that you can come up with a switch that runs off robot power. You should check the rules yourself to be sure.

Given that, I'd expect that the cRIO might have trouble doing image processing from two cameras at the same time depending on what operations your're performing. The problem with doing that is that the AxisCamera class is currently a singleton, meaning that it assumes that there is only a single camera connected.

It might be that this can be changed in an update so that multiple cameras can be supported or it might be something that you can look at.

As for the question of modifying the dashbaord program... the source code is available as a LabVIEW application. You can modify it as needed. You have to be careful to keep the data in sync between the robot and dashboards ends. You can look at both samples to see how this works.