can't get control system to function

Technical Programming
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We still can’t get system to work using Wind River. We have flashed the crio and ds twice. Have updated Wind River.

When we download the sample program after building all with no errors it seems to work. It downloads in about 3 seconds. We have tried telling Wind River to download the out file created -simple template I think - as well as whatever the default was when we first did it.

Have run undeploy which flashes an unreadable message and then downloaded. Have rebooted everything in about every order.

We get no movement when we move joysticks. We turn on ds after plugging sticks in. I’m guessing that the intro program robot.cpp - I think would use pwm1 as output for stick in arcade drive but can’t find it in the docs.

We’re going nuts!!! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!

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What is the Robot Signal Light doing – is it flashing, or is it on steady?

What do the lights on your speed controllers look like – flashing, a steady yellow/orange, or something else?

Does the Driver Station screen say “Enabled” or does it say “Disabled”?

What is displayed for the battery voltage?

Did the system work properly out of the box when you did the bench test?

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What is the Robot Signal Light doing – is it flashing, or is it on steady?

Robot signal light is flashing.

What do the lights on your speed controllers look like – flashing, a steady yellow/orange, or something else?

Speed controllers are flashing yellow/orange.

Does the Driver Station screen say “Enabled” or does it say “Disabled”?

We’ve got the dongle on it. Have been trying it with enabled.

What is displayed for the battery voltage?

Battery voltage says no comm. The engineer working with us was going to install a jumper today to get this to work I think.

We are trying tethered at the moment- didn’t want to introduce another variable.

As far as bench testing - I’m not sure it was done - i got into this to help with programming - wasn’t there at the beginning.

Thanks for the help!

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Well, there’s your problem.

You need to make sure that the Driver Station is set to the proper team number. You need to make sure that the proper team number was selected when you reimaged the cRIO. You need to make sure that the wireless router has the proper IP address and that all its settings are correct as directed by the instructions in the control system manual.

The engineer working with us was going to install a jumper today to get this to work I think.

The jumper would fix a “0.00 volts” indication. It will have no effect on a “No comm” situation.

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Alan - correct team number is in driver station and crio - 539.

As for the wireless router - we’re not using it - are tehering through the ds.

Thanks!

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Been there- still doing that

the NI support #- 866-511-6285. They are happy to help

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Maybe I found the problem? The crio imge I’ve been loading is frc_2009_v7.zip. Is this out of date? Anyone know where the latest on is

Thanks!!

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Pretty much everything you need to know, including setup instructions, component manuals, software updates, example programs, and pointers to much, much more can be found by going to http://www.usfirst.org/frccontrolsystem.

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You’re an Update behind. Install LabVIEW Update 3a from Alan’s link, then re-image the cRIO with v11.
Install the latest Wind River update too.
There is also recently released firmware for the Driver station that you should install, but get v11 onto the cRIO first.

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We have fixed the problem. Apparently our crio had some corrupted code in it. We set all of the pin switches on the crio to the opposite of their original settings and rebooted it clearing all of the memory . We then flipped them back and reformatted it. This gave us communication with the driver station.

Thanks for everyone’s help!

team 539