Configuring Static IPs for Teams
It is highly recommended, though not required, to have teams use static IP addresses on their driver stations and roboRIOs. Doing so eliminates mDNS as a potential failure point in communications, and can result in robots connecting to the field much faster, allowing events to have shorter and more consistent match cycle times.
When a team arrives at an event using Cheesy Arena, they should follow these three steps:
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Program the robot radio using the WPA Kiosk, in the same way as during the competition season.
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Assign the driver station a static IP address of 10.xx.yy.5 with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0, where xx and yy are the first two and last two digits of the team number.
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Assign the roboRIO a static IP address of 10.xx.yy.2 with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. To do this, turn on the robot, tether the driver station or any other computer to the robot radio, and navigate to http://roboRIO-xxyy-FRC.local in a Silverlight-compatible browser to open the web configuration interface (where xxyy is the team number). Reboot the robot for the change to take effect.
