How long does your robot take to boot?

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How many seconds does your robot take before it’s “fully ready” after a roboRIO reboot?
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During a match we had an electrical issue with our robot that caused a brief power interruption to the robot systems so we had to wait for both the roboRIO to boot as well as our code. The FTAs noted that our boot cycle was longer than usual, so I’m curious - how long does it take your robot to be fully ready after a roboRIO reboot? (We tested this by pressing “RESET” directly on the roboRIO and waiting for comms/robot code green lights on the FRC Driver Station.)

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In retrospect this was probably the wrong kind of poll, since I’m not seeing a way to extract vote counts for each choice…

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Here’s one where we can see the distribution:

How many seconds does your robot take before it’s “fully ready” after a roboRIO reboot?
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Your testing is innacurate because it takes different amounts of time to connect to fms, or your robot.

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In general…

Radio should take ~40-45 seconds to boot

Roborio should take ~25-30 seconds to boot

Code restart alone is variable depending on language choice and a number of other factors.

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Could you explain what you mean in more detail? For our tests away from the competition, we had the Driver Station connected wirelessly to the robot and invoked both the “reboot roboRIO” button seen here as well as pressing the “RESET” button directly on the roboRIO (both seemed to produce consistent and equivalent results).

Just for more information, we fairly consistently saw a roboRIO boot time of ~33 seconds followed by a code boot time of ~22 seconds (Java-based team). The code boot we know is slower than most due to our use of Guice but we wondered how much slower this put us compared to other teams.

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