Driver Station Installer

[kevint]

Does anyone have the installer for the 2010 driver station? I'm trying to get in on a separate laptop because we want to run a separate practice bot and don't have another classmate or the original flash drive they told us not to loose (oops). It would really help if anyone could send me the file(s) or give me a link.
Thank you,
kevinT

[jspatz1]

We were able to simply copy the program folder from the classmate and run the exe. Seems to work.

[Dkt01]

If you still have a computer with the Labview from last year, you can create a new driver station project. Then build it and you'll have the .exe program. It will run on any laptop, but you'll have to manually start it whenever you need it. It won't auto run on startup like the classmate.

[byteit101]

http://usfirst.org/frccontrolsystem

scroll down to Mandatory Driver Station Update/Driver Station Installer (for use on any PC)

[kamocat]

Originally Posted by Dkt01

If you still have a computer with the Labview from last year, you can create a new driver station project. Then build it and you'll have the .exe program. It will run on any laptop, but you'll have to manually start it whenever you need it. It won't auto run on startup like the classmate.

For clarification, this is the Dashboard you're referring to.
The Driver Station is not open-source, and we only receive it in a compiled .exe or an installer.

[kevint]

First I followed jspatz1's suggestion and opened up the developer on my class mate. I pulled out the files "FRC Driver Station" and "FRC Dashboard" located in "C:\Program Files". Neither of the executables in the folders worked. Instead it gives me a pop up prompting me to "Find the Shared Library Named "nicyapi.dll"". I can exit out of this and it will ask for a few more files similar to it. Eventually the driver station and dashboard will open up but they don't do anything and I can't interact with them.

Then I downloaded the file suggested by byteit101 and installed it. I went to the same location and opened the same executables mentioned before and got the same result.

This makes me think I'm simply not finding the right executable despite numerous searches. Any thoughts?

Also I should point out that I've been using C++ and don't know much about labview right now.

[kevint]

I had a chance to talk to our team mentor and he seems to think that I ought to install labview as well. I'm doing so now...

[kamocat]

The installer byteit101 reccomended should put the Driver Station in the Programs section of your START menu. You shouldn't have to copy the old driver station over.

By the way, if you've installed the LabVIEW update after the driver station update, the nicyapi.dll does go missing. Right below the Driver Station update on http://usfirst.org/frccontrolsystem is
"Fix for Driver Station Missing 'nicyapi.dll' Issue".


As for installing LabVIEW, I don't believe this would be an issue. However, it won't hurt, and it will give you some tools to help you with vision processing. (You can also use LabVIEW to make custom Dashboards)

[kevint]

I checked the nicyapi.dll issue and copied it into my system32 folder and it stopped asking for it. It kept asking for other .dll folders to though and that's why I thought installing labview would be a good idea. I ended up getting the update for Labview on the page that byteit101 recommended and it still didn't work. I assume that it was because the file was just and update. (It did put the crio imager on my desktop so it wasn't completely fruitless). Anyway I ended up just copying every folder (a total of 7 or 8 I think) from my class mate's system32 folder into the system32 folder of the soon to be driver station. This was adequate to make the computer function as a driver station.

[kamocat]

Originally Posted by kevint

I ended up just copying every folder (a total of 7 or 8 I think) from my class mate's system32 folder into the system32 folder of the soon to be driver station. This was adequate to make the computer function as a driver station.

Not ideal, but I suppose it works.

One thing I forgot to ask:
what version of Windows are you running? If it's Windows 7, that may be the issue. Otherwise, the Driver Station Update should work on both XP and Vista.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Not ideal, but I suppose it works.

One thing I forgot to ask:
what version of Windows are you running? If it's Windows 7, that may be the issue. Otherwise, the Driver Station Update should work on both XP and Vista.

Kevin was using a computer running Windows XP SP3.

-RC

[kamocat]

Originally Posted by R.C.

Kevin was using a computer running Windows XP SP3.

-RC

Strange; I've installed the driver station on XP SP3 before.
It'd be interesting to know the cause of the problem.