Hello everyone,
This year team 7877 has a brand new team. We could use some support with updating the phoenix tuner, how to scan the RoboRio and prepare it for code deployment. The team meets after school from 3:15 to 6 on Tuesday and Thursday if anyone is able to call in with some guidance.
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The WPILib documentation site goes through installing the environment and imaging the rio, ect.
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Has their local mentor gone through the basics of reading the documentation, do they not have a mentor?
Is there a piece of the documentation that doesn’t make sense?
During the build season it’s going to be hard to get someone to be a remote mentor for your team in terms of calling in to actively teach, but I’ll be happy to help as much as I can here.
I just need to know what you’ve done, and where you’re stuck.
We have 2 mentors but they are not familiar with this part of robotics. I honestly just need a refresher. I am confused with what cord is needed to hook to the RoboRio so we can scan for motors on the phoenix tuner. It keeps saying we are not connected. We have imaged the RoboRio and wired. This is the piece before we can start working with code
From the two pages below, it sounds like USB is preferred, and you need to load code on the robot for it to work. Either the direct Phoenix Library/Diagnostics from the Phoenix Tuner, or deploy robot code from VSCode with the Phoenix Framework Vendor Lib installed.
The cord connecting doesn’t matter…as long as the other stuff you have connecting is configured correctly. So, if you’re not familiar with how to get IP addressing correct, then USB is most definitely the safest bet for you.
Every now and then, you have to manually type in the IP address in the address line of Phoenix Tuner, and click the Install Diagnostics … button on the right.
In this case you’d type the 172.22.11.2 as referenced in the linked documentation. When you click the install diagnostics button, pay attention to the output that is in the Window. It will help you start to troubleshoot what may be going on if it’s not working.
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