paper: FRC cRIO II

[T_stephens67]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Any problems so far? Has anyone used it yet? Are there any noticeable advantages/disadvantages? If so, what?

Thanks!

We are a rookie team and we have the crio 2 we have yellow flashing lights on our jaguar motors and we don't know what is wrong if you or anyone on the thread can help it would be appreciated

[Mark McLeod]

Yellow flashing lights on the Jaguar speed controllers means they are not receiving a PWM command signal. Lots of reasons this could be:

• Did you image the cRIO with the imaging tool?
• Did you then download code?
• Does the code activate the PWM you have your motors connected to?
• Did you connect to the cRIO from a laptop running the Driver Station (are the connection status lights red or green)?
• Did you Enable the robot from the Driver Station?
• Are the PWM cables connected in the proper orientation?
• Is the Digital Sidecar powered properly (all three power LEDs are bright green)?
• Is the cRIO Digital module in slot #2?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Yellow flashing lights on the Jaguar speed controllers means they are not receiving a PWM command signal. Lots of reasons this could be:

Adding to Mark's list.

Is the DB37 cable correct? Some in the kit were built incorrectly. See http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...structions.pdf

[T_stephens67]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Yellow flashing lights on the Jaguar speed controllers means they are not receiving a PWM command signal. Lots of reasons this could be:

• Did you image the cRIO with the imaging tool?
• Did you then download code?
• Does the code activate the PWM you have your motors connected to?
• Did you connect to the cRIO from a laptop running the Driver Station (are the connection status lights red or green)?
• Did you Enable the robot from the Driver Station?
• Are the PWM cables connected in the proper orientation?
• Is the Digital Sidecar powered properly (all three power LEDs are bright green)?
• Is the cRIO Digital module in slot #2?

The only thing we arnt sure of is If the code activates the pwm because we are running the tutorial but the robot signal light on the digital sidecar is off

[Mark McLeod]

What language are you using, and which tutorial did you pick?

Did you check the ribbon cable as Joe suggested?
A good cable should be able to plug into itself without requiring a twist in the cable to do so.

[T_stephens67]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Adding to Mark's list.

Is the DB37 cable correct? Some in the kit were built incorrectly. See http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...structions.pdf

THANK YOU VERY MUCH that was exactly the problem (we hope) we a currently flipping the female part on the DB37

[AlexD744]

Did anybody ever find out if you could use the fourth slot as an additional digital sidecar module?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by AlexD744

Did anybody ever find out if you could use the fourth slot as an additional digital sidecar module?

You can use it for any of the 3 modules. The module you insert will be detected at power-up.

[The Trooper]

I can not access the digital soft switches for the cRIO in the new imager, does anyone have any suggestions? I am using the new cRIO II
I am using the crossover cable, the imager gave a new name to he cRIO II and the IP address alright, but I can not upload an image.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by The Trooper

I am using the crossover cable, the imager gave a new name to he cRIO II and the IP address alright, but I can not upload an image.

What happens when you try?

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by The Trooper

I can not access the digital soft switches for the cRIO in the new imager, does anyone have any suggestions? I am using the new cRIO II
I am using the crossover cable, the imager gave a new name to he cRIO II and the IP address alright, but I can not upload an image.

What is the specific error? Can you quote it exactly here?

[The Trooper]

Originally Posted by apalrd

What is the specific error? Can you quote it exactly here?

Unable to complete operation because of unexpected error:
Error -2147220304 occurred at nisyscfg.lvlib:Restart.vi:1

Possible reason(s):

NI System Configuration: (Hex 0x800404B0) Timeout while waiting for reboot. System is offline.


Complete call chain:
nisyscfg.lvlib:Restart.vi:1
ConfigUtility.lvlib:2012_FormatSystem.vi
ConfigUtility.lvlib:ReImageTarget.vi
ConfigUtility.lvlibialog.vi

[The Trooper]

The cRIO II has the IP address and name, but when I select the option to image it, it does not allow me to. It gets halfway through the formatting process, and it displays the above ^ error code.

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by The Trooper

The cRIO II has the IP address and name, but when I select the option to image it, it does not allow me to. It gets halfway through the formatting process, and it displays the above ^ error code.

Make sure your computer's netmask is set to 255.255.255.0 and that you have disabled (by right clicking and selecting "Disable") any adapters other than the one being used to connect to the cRIO.

[The Trooper]

Originally Posted by RufflesRidge

Make sure your computer's netmask is set to 255.255.255.0 and that you have disabled (by right clicking and selecting "Disable") any adapters other than the one being used to connect to the cRIO.

I have done that, and it still does that.