Non-Classmate DS Problems

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by ayeckley

Is anyone besides me having problems when running the Driver Station application on a PC (in this case, a laptop) other than the Classmate? The problem is that the cRIO and DS application seem to lose their connection after a random amount of time (anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds). We're not seeing this issue when using the actual Classmate. It would be helpful to be able to leave the Classmate at the school while doing off-site development work using our other cRIO.

I use it on a non-classmate all the time with no issues.

Have you tried looking at the cRIO console output to determine if the cRIO is rebooting or if it is just a networking or application drop out? Is it possible that your program is crashing? What language are you programming in?

What is the processor utilization of the PC you are running on? Is it saturated?

Originally Posted by ayeckley

Based on the number of questions/issues I'm reading about this year's DS here on CD, it looks like the 2010 control system architecture might be a step backward from last year's Blue Box, despite its ESD-sensitivity

It seems that most of the issues with the driver station are just getting the update installed. At least you can try again. Perhaps you don't recall that last year if a firmware update failed, the device was bricked and had to be sent in for recovery. How can you possibly step backward from that?