deploy does not work

[richardharman]

I recently went through the LAbview programming guide and completed the example in chapter 5 that relates to changing the arcade drive to tank drive.   I hit run to deploy it to the cRIO but then the wheels no longer move at all when I try to use the joystick although all indications are that the deploy wa successful.   I then tried to redeploy the original arcade drive and that will no longer work.  I followed the steps as closely as possible in chapter 5 but now the controls do not respond to any labview at all.  They still work when I re image to wind river.

[NI-Bob]

Hello Richard,

Are you using the default example without making any changes to it to verify that that works?  The behavior that you are describing makes me think that either you are not feeding the watchdog or there is an error occurring somewhere.

When you run your code do you see any errors or even any values change on the front panel?  If you do not see any values changing make sure to create indicators to display the joystick values read from the joysticks and the error wires coming out of the arcade/tank drive VIs.  This will also help verify that your code is actually running and that it did not stop due to some error.

Please let me know when you have had the chance to test out the initial example to make sure that works.  I hope this helps!

Thanks!

Bob H

NI FIRST Support

[richardharman]

Thanks

If I do anything at all the code does not deploy so following your advice seems to not be the direction to take at least for now.  From what I can tell, it is the system watchdog that is causing the problem and this indicates that there is something funky going on with making sure that everything is configured at the latest level.   Although I have reconfigured everything until my face has turned blue and my wrists are wracked with carpal tunnel it may be that there is some code I need under a rock somewhere in the FIji Islands that I must find and install before I can get this blasted thing to work.  Unfortunately, I have a job and a life outside of First which precludes in probability the undertaking of such a noble quest.  Maybe next year.

Rich

[sciencewhiz]

Did you reimage to LabVIEW before starting? Have you installed the latest labview update? http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1180/lang/en