The FRC Dashboard

[Robot Man]

I have the Advanced FRC Robot Project deployed as a stand-alone application and the motors go.

I then loaded onto my laptop the FRC Dashboard Project and ran it.

I do not see any changes on the Dashboard screen as I move the joystick and see the motors run.

I performed all opf the above using the "Using the FRC Framework" document as my guide.

Should I see something change?  Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Philbot]

In order for the dashboard to get data from the Robot, your laptop's IP address MUST be set correctly.

I Know what you're saying: "It IS set correctly because I can load code onto the cRIO".

Well, that's not a good test.

You see, your laptop can load code onto the cRIO if it has any IP address that's compatible with your robot net.

eg: I'm team 1629, so my robot's IP is 10.16.29.2  (See how the middle two numbers use the 4 digits of my team number)

If my PC has IP address  10.16.29.123 it would be able to load code on the cRIO, BUT the Dashboard would not see any data coming back from the robot.

The reason for this is that the cRIO (or DS) is sending the dashboard data out to 10.16.29.6 (The "required" PC address).

If your laptop doesn't match, it won't see the data.

You need to ensure that whatever network adapter your laptop is using to talk to the robot, is set with the correct FIXED IP.

The correct IP is described in the Online manual, section 5.2.

It is based on your team number, and for the laptop it MUST end with .6

[Robot Man]

Thank you!  I had set my IP address to 10.19.18.1 based on the table in 5.2.

As you stated, I was then able to communicate with the robot.

I changed it to ...6 like you said and the Dashboard works!

Thanks again.

[sciencewhiz]

What part of 5.2 made you use .1? I'm suprised your computer didn't complain about duplicate IP addresses, or that anything worked.

[Robot Man]

Well, probably because it was the first one listed? (NOT being sarcastic)  I'm not too familiar with this IP thing.

I wonder if it works because I am talking through the Driver Station?

I ran a standard internet cable from my laptop into ETH1 on the DS and then used the blue cable that came with the system to go from ETH2 to the Ethernet 1 connection to the Linksys box.