SmartDashboard SelectableChooser not showing up

Technical Python
1

Hello,

I am trying to set up a set of selectable auto modes via a chooser on the SmartDashboard. I have all the code working, with the chooser sending a value to the robot, which selects the auto based on whatever value was chosen. However, I have found that if the dashboard is restarted after the first time the code was run, the Chooser will disappear from the dashboard, and only come back when you create a new dashboard layout- never from loading a saved layout.

Is there anything wrong with what I am doing here?


	def robotInit(self):
		self.chooser = wp.SendableChooser()
		self.chooser.addDefault("None", 4)
		self.chooser.addObject("Auto1", 1)
		self.chooser.addObject("Auto2", 2)
		self.chooser.addObject("Auto3", 3)
		wp.SmartDashboard.putData("Choice", self.chooser)
2

Are you using smart dashboard from the 2017.3.1 release? http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13503/l/685689-issues-and-faqs-for-2017

3

As far as I know we are not. How do you update it?

4

Depends on how you got it originally. However, the latest jar is at http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/roborio/maven/release/edu/wpi/first/wpilib/SmartDashboard/

5

I forget exactly how we got it, but that jar seems to fix it.

thanks!