We just updated the Driver Station with the latest update and now we notice that the digital inputs are not available during autonomous mode…
Is this a undocumented enhancement and what else did they change, any ideas?
thanks
If you mean the Driver Station inputs, then it’s an intentional and documented change. During Autonomous Enabled, no Driver Station joystick or switch or analog data is sent to the robot.
Can you give me a reference for where this is documented? Not that I am doubting you… just curious because we cannot seem to find it. 
It’s not very well documented, granted.
The FRC Program Manager warned us last month that it would be changed to work this way.
A Q&A response today mentions it working this way.
Save the values that you want to be using from the switches
during the disabled period. As there is a race condition the
values during the last disabledperiodic() call will be unreliable.
Buffer the values, and use the ones obtained from the call
just before the last.
Eugene