DS version 2009-02-10a3

[heydowns]

Anyone tried this? Any significant changes?

[jross]

The beta teams have been testing it for a few days.

There were a few behind the scenes changes dealing with robustness of handling joysticks. I think the only user noticeable one is displaying watchdog status when it's expired.

[Joe Hershberger]

And the fact that you can unplug and replug joysticks without resetting the DS.

[lyncas]

Will teams be required to load this update at competition ?

[Mike Betts]

Will teams be required to load this update at competition ?

Andrew,

Please read Team Update #12. The answer is yes.

Mike

[heydowns]

And the fact that you can unplug and replug joysticks without resetting the DS.

Nice! This is a much welcome feature addition. Thanks for the change rundown.

[freds]

Can First or someone please provide details, new features of the current and new Driver Station firmware?
New features, I think:
- ability to plug/unplug usb joysticks without repowering?
- ability to reboot cRio from Driver Station?
- new WatchDog status? which watchdog: user/software or crio system?
- what else?

[writchie]

The link for downloading the required version of the DS 2009-02-010a3 is broken.

Does anyone have a valid link or a post with the file?

[Mike Betts]

It is working now...

http://usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/dsud_pkg.bin

Mike

[Joe Hershberger]

Good thing... we had a number of teams at the OK regional who had the wrong DS image installed stating that they had downloded it only days before.