2015 RoboRIO/Control System Feedback

[RyanShoff]

This was actually an issue at Worlds, since Chrome dropped NPAPI support the week before. So we spent about 10 minutes trying to connect to the webdash, until I remembered, and we switched to IE. I would prefer to use chrome, which means they should switch to something chrome supports, and not silverlight.

This chrome://flags/#enable-npapi and click enable will work for another year or so until Google has said they will really remove it.

[tcjinaz]

I’ve noticed this for several years now. You need to go into the properties of the WiFi adapter on the laptop and disable all power saving options. Otherwise when the battery gets below a certain level the Wifi adapter will actually disappear from the operating system until the power cord is plugged in again.

Team 111 Wildstang did this season: http://wildstang.org/blog/?p=225

We used the Wildstang part this year, worked like a charm.

Thanks 111!

[timytamy]

Requiring Silverlight to manage a Linux device bugged me.

I agree it seems wrong, however maybe have a look at Pipelight (http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html). Seemed to work ok for me (admittedly, I only opened the management page and clicked around, I didn’t do any serious work with the roboRIO this year).

For convenience, Pipelight installation on Ubuntu (and derivatives):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi && sudo pipelight-plugin --update

[MrRoboSteve]

[quote=“JamesD,post:13,topic:144126”]

. physical retention for control cables at the roboRIO – maybe someone should design a 3d printed part that sticks to the top/side of the unit, with retention like the Jaguar?

I’ve noticed this for several years now. You need to go into the properties of the WiFi adapter on the laptop and disable all power saving options. Otherwise when the battery gets below a certain level the Wifi adapter will actually disappear from the operating system until the power cord is plugged in again.

Team 111 Wildstang did this season: http://wildstang.org/blog/?p=225[/quote]

Thanks for the pointer. I noticed in today’s email blast that AM has a product to address this as well.