Joystick Communication Problem

[mechatronics]

So, we're a first-year team. Probably running miles and miles behind schedule. Right now, we're trying just to be able to run one of the example programs. Specifically, we're trying to run the joystick input example.

We're pretty sure we've got things hooked up correctly, and we can successfully deploy the program to the cRIO (we think). The problem is, no matter what USB input it's set to take, it won't recognize the joysticks, even though the driver station will. Any suggestions about what's wrong?

[Mark McLeod]

Are there any red status lights on the Driver Station Diagnostic tab?
Did you Enable the robot?
What is the Robot Status LED doing (on the Digital Sidecar to the right of the wago power connector) ?

[mechatronics]

Our situation is really inconsistent. At the moment, the light is slowly blinking. There's a red light for "Robot Code", and that prevents us from enabling the robot.

We're currently connecting to the cRIO directly with a crossover cable (we are having a billion communications problems. We haven't even been able to start programming because we're trying to figure them out).

[JoeyTNT280]

You can't use a Crossover cable from Laptop to CRio. Use a standard Ethernet Cable and it should at least fix communication problems

[Mark McLeod]

If the communication light is on then your cable is fine and I think it's just how you are running the code and the Driver Station.
The Robot Code light is because of the way you are trying to run the LabVIEW project.

First, Exit the Driver account (from the Driver Station you do that by going to the Setup tab -> Exit).
Login to the Developer account and start the FRC Driver Station from there. Look under Windows Start -> All Programs -> FRC Driver Station.

If you are using the default Robot Project, then from the LabVIEW project Explorer window go to the very bottom of the file list and you'll see "Build Specifications."

• Under that, right-click on the file that's listed and choose "Build"
• Then right-click on it again and choose "Run as startup"
• At the end you will be asked if you want to reboot the robot, click "Yes"

Finally, click enable on the Driver Station you already have running.