In no particular order, here are some troubleshooting steps for various issues which have arisen over the years.
Radio Configuration
- Did you read the directions? They're right on the radio configuration utility screen.
- Is your ethernet cable bad? This happens alot.
- You absolutely MUST disable all other network adapters or the radio config will fail.
- Robot doesn't work after a competition. Run the radio configuration utility to setup for normal practice & testing
Programming the Robot
- Code changes fail to go live on the robot: Make sure the code was built and deployed properly, this includes making sure that the first downloader preferences were correctly set in the settings panel in windriver
- Random unexpected behavior: replace the battery, strange things happen when you don't
- Can't connect to the robot: make sure your ip settings are configured properly in windows adapter settings for the connected device so that it requests an unused ip in the format 10.17.40.X
- Code fails to build with the error "No Rule To Make Target": Go to Build>Clean and let it reset the makefile and rebuild your code, this most commonly becomes an issue when entire projects are moved into a different directory
- Sometimes for unknown reasons, two projects can become conflicted with each other and prevent either projects code from successfully deploying on the robot, to fix this make a new windriver project and copy all source files into it