SystemCore at FRC Offseasons

[Kevin-OConnor]

Hi all, I've received questions in a few different places from folks about using SystemCore at offseasons:

• Yes, it is allowed and encouraged to use SystemCore at offseason events
• There are no changes to FMS or anything particularly special FTAs should need to be aware of. You'll be using the same version of the DS that everyone else is and the FMS software only communicates with the DS.
• We currently recommend using the SystemCore web interface to set the Eth0 interface to a static IP of 10.TE.AM.2 (using the Gear tab) to maximize the robustness of the NI DS search process. It's possible later on that there may be a VH-109 update that makes this no longer necessary, if so I'll reply to this thread.
• While everything should just work, we recommend contacting the event FTA (event organizers can likely put you in touch) to let them know you'll be bringing a robot with SystemCore and that you would like to try to do a connection test as soon as feasible based on the event schedule. We recommend bringing your configured roboRIO with code loaded and ready to go in case any unexpected issues do pop up and are unable to be resolved.

[ericgaudet]

Sounds great. We would love to use it at the STEMley Cup Overtime event in Ontario (Sun Nov 2)!