My team has just gotten a WCP Vivid Hosting Radio and I have been having trouble connecting it to my laptop to set it up. I have the radio plugged into a 12 volt power supply and it powers on correctly. I am using a USB- C to RJ- 45 port and an ethernet cable (both of which work when plugging it into wired internet). I am plugging them into the DS port on the radio. After booting up the radio’s SYS light blinks at around 1 Hz so I guess it is unable to ping 10.xx.yy.4 (what ever that means). The third switch on the bottom of the radio is on, the other two are off. The LED next to the ethernet ports on the radio and the LEDs on my USB to ethernet doggle are dark after boot up.
Please help. Thank you.
I’m not too informed on the topic, but have you done everything on this?:
Also, heres a simplified wiring diagram that someone made for me:
Last year, when setting up the old radio, we were unable to power our radio over POE straight from out laptop through the USB dongle, that may also be your issue if its only connected to your laptop and not a PDH, although you did say that you have it connection to a power supply.
Hi!
Have you ensured that your roboRIO has its team number set?
Make sure to also update your radio firmware!
Try disabling the firewall and wifi on your laptop as well, it helps with pinging.
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Updating the firmware is what I am trying to do, but to do this I must first connect it to my laptop. How would I safely disable the firewall?
I am using an external power supply, not POE to power it. I don’t think the power is the problem, it is probably something with my computer or radio.
You just go into your windows settings and look up firewall, you’ll see Domain Network, Private Network, and Public Network, I’ve always disabled all of these and it works (not sure if you actually have to disable all of them tho), you just click on them individually and where it says on flip it to off.
It also might help if you have a picture of the setup you have going on?
To disable your wifi driver you want to go to control panel (assuming Windows), Network and internet, Network and Sharing Center, then Change adapter settings on the left panel. Then, right click on your wifi driver and disable it. Try connecting to your radio then!
Make sure to turn your driver back on after you’re done though!
I am not near the robot right now, but we have the power connected to our REV PD board, an ethernet cable from the rio 2.0 in the RIO port on our radio, and an ethernet cable connected to my ethernet to USB - C adapter connected to my laptop.
I turned off the firewall and wifi and it still didn’t connect
Is there a possibility of it being a bad radio and if so how can I confirm that?
Theres always a possibility of a bad radio, is it brand new? I wouldn’t really now how to confirm that the radio is bad, I highly doubt thats the issue though.
This is on the website for tethering to the robot on the practice field, I see no reason you also wouldn’t be able to upload the firmware from this:
It is a brand new from WCP. I have tried taking out the power and nothing lit up on the radio. Should I try again?
Is there a special driver I need to download to my adapter to work with this radio? @kiettyyyy
Theres not really any harm in trying again, although if it didn’t work the first time I don’t really see it working the second time, your adapter may not support POE if its not powering up, I just researched usb-c to ethernet adapters and they don’t seem to typically have POE unless they are specifically made for that.
Have you tried all the different IP addresses it could be at?
There are other threads on CD that have them listed as others have had trouble connecting as well.
I am not in a place to go dig them up for you this second but will edit it a few hours when I can.
There is another 10.x.x.x, and a 192 or 172.x.x.x recovery address that I can remember
We were able to ping http://192.168.69.1 initially with our radios. If that doesn’t work, from the usage guide: “VH-109’s programmed at the factory are configured to team #1 in Client/STA mode, setting the IP address to 10.0.1.1.”
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I just set up my teams radio and had to connect to 10.0.1.1 at first and then when changing it to my team number it changed to 10.102.19.1 so for @ATEMSRobotics after you set your team number it would be 10.100.62.1 if your team number is 10062
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It’s also important to remember that whenever you upgrade firmware, the team assignment gets wiped. This is common for devices when upgrading firmware, but not specifically documented on the vivid hosting website.
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No special driver needed.
If you’re having a hard time figuring it out and the community answers aren’t doing it for you, feel free to reach out to WCP support. If they can’t figure it out, they’ll pass you on to VH support.
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I found that doing
arp -a
in the command prompt is very helpful for finding the radio’s IP address.
(I don’t know if there’s a better way to do it, but this is the best I found)
The ARP table contains a list of IP addresses and their corresponding MAC (Media Access Control) addresses that the computer has recently interacted with or discovered.
Not related, you can use the arp -a command to see if your Roborio is connected to the network. (it will show the Rio’s IP, 10.xx.yy.2)
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I just wired up my radio exactly like this plus another ethernet cord from the DS port on the radio to my computer, I then went to 10.0.1.1 . Downloaded the firmware from here:
And uploaded the firmware via the instructions it gives you. After the firmware completed downloading I changed my team number and set a password, then I could connect via 10.102.19.1 (for you it would be 10.100.62.1), I then unplugged the radio from my computer once that finished, rebooted the robot for good luck and then was able to connect the robot via wifi. These are the best instructions I can give you because I literally just did it.
Do I need to have the RIO ethernet cable hooked up to POE or will having it directly connected to our mini REV PD board work?
You don’t need to have the RIO port hooked to PoE.
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this this week i updated roborio 2.0 and he felt like changing randomly to 10.xx.yy.200.
i didn’t exactly understand what happened to you but if you are able to connect to the radio and the radio is showing that he is connected to the roborio but DS is not showing comm try to see in arp -a if you have 10.xx.yy.2 and if you don’t, run angry scanner to check what is the ip.
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