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Driver Station Tutorial
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This document describes the new driver station for the 2015 FIRST competition season. Read through it
to learn about new features and functionalities introduced with this software-based driver station.
Contents
FRC Driver Station
Overview
Main Viewing Areas
Operation Page
Robot Operation Modes
Robot Run Information
Diagnostics Page
Communications
Version Information
Setup Page
Configuring Team Number
Practice Round Parameters
USB Settings Page
Power & CAN Page
Messages & Charts Page
This seems to use an older Driver Station version that does not allow the choice of language specific dashboards on the setup tab. It should look like this: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/3120/m/8559/l/92377-frc-driver-station-software/show_image?image...
Where does the .ini file for the driver station data storage live now? Can't find where to change the dashboard from the default.
I didn't check if it actually works, but the tutorial (tutorial 6 - Creating a Costum Dashboard) sais this: (direct quote) "
After you customize the FRC Dashboard Project, you must rebuild the project so that the Driver Station launches the most recent version of the project.
Complete the following steps to rebuild the project and specify which project the Driver Station launches automatically.
Hope this helps you!
Where can we download just the driver software? I need to update our classmates, and I cant find it.
A good starting point to find anything related to FRC is at www.ni.com/frc
There's a link there to the software download page: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-34731