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Can a team have two dashboards

During the off season we decided to implement the Cheecy Vision to our list of things to get done before the new season.  We were able to get this working and now learning that real estate on the dashboard is getting scarch. I'm think of have dual monitors on driver station with two dashboards.  One dashboard will be for Cheecy Vision and the other will be for TeleOp.  The question is will this work when connected to FMS?  The two dashboards work fine in stand alone but we don't have a way to connect to the FMS.

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This has been allowed in the past ever since 2010 when the Driver Station was first running on a laptop.  The primary restriction in the rules of previous years is that the Driver Station software must run on a laptop that is directly connected to the field network (not through a switch brought by the user).  This means for the second dashboard to be accessible an additional network interface has to be added to the primary DS computer which is bridged to the FMS network interface.  This additional NIC is typically a USB network adapter or an expresscard network adapter.

Naturally this could be different in next year's rules, but this is what they have been for 5 years.

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