Hi this is Chris Larsen from FRC team #3374,
My team has decided to help mentor an FTC team but ran into confusion with setting up the Samantha module so that data can be streamed to run motors, and read sensors. We’ve found that our Samantha module is correctly linked to our router cause the power is solid red, wifi is solid white, and NXT is blinking blue. Another way that allows us to know that we have established connection is that the FTC driving station program says it has connection with the robot. Plus we are running a program (can’t be too precise cause I’m typing this up late at night at my house) that tells us what wifi the Samantha is searching for and that program’s wifi data matches that data our router is sending out. The questions start with the programming. My program (which is written on Labview Mindstorms) works both wired and Bluetooth but yet it doesn’t seem to want to stream to the Samantha module, also if i write a program for the FTC brick with controls made for controller/keyboard/mouse the program wont let me download it or run it on an FTC brick.
My mentor, and I have a theory that we need another program that maintains a connection with the brick from the computer that tells the brick which program is teleop and which program is autonomous, but we don’t know if this program is a separate program from Labview Mindstorms or if it is built in to Labview Mindstorms. In the long term it would be extremely helpful if someone could help me with getting programs running through the Samantha module and the correct format to write the program to make sure that we will be fully accepted into competition.
It sounds like your NXT doesn’t have the Program Chooser/Samostat/NXTShell files on it.
First I would try to see if you can update the firmware of your NXT, and if it’s already updated, then I’d follow the instructions from this thread on the FTC forums: http://ftcforum.usfirst.org/showthread.php?2331-Program-Chooser-Samostat-NXTShell-LabVIEW&p=7857#post7857
Hope this helps.
I figured it out, I didn’t know that you had to download the program onto the brick and then select it with program chooser. Now I can help the kids be ready for matches… Thanks a lot!!! 