SmartDashboard Poll

[JefferMC]

During some matches on Friday at Palmetto we had, shall we say, "impaired" control of the robot, sluggishness, etc., even while the network monitors showed nominal trip times (<40 ms). We provided our logs to the guys from NI and were asked by several "survey takers" during Friday and Saturday: "Do you (a) have a camera, (b) use SmartDashboard?"

By Saturday morning the official suggestion was to disable the SmartDashboard application on the driving PC, which we did and all "iffy" control problems went away. I've spent much of Sunday thinking about alternate ways to provide configuration information to the robot, and wondering out who make up for the lost feedback mechanisms.

Yesterday, a mandatory update was out for WindRiver C++ to correct SmartDashboard issues. I'm creating this post as sort of an informal survey of my own:

How comfortable are you with continuing to use SmartDashboard during competitions?