Making cRIO 9014 Wireless

[gtrevino80]

I am working on a project that due to the location of the cRIO there will be no ethernet cable close by. One solution I was looking at is to connect a wireless bridge to the cRIO and then connect this bridge to an available Router signal. I looked at the First competition and they are using this solution to control robots. Does anyone know how this works and if this is a reliable solution?

I have to install this at school so I do not know if this works with DHCP or if I have to request a static IP address.

[Ben_S · Accepted solution]

Gerardo Trevino,

I've helped out with the FIRST robotics competition and the only problems I ever saw with the wireless setup were the typical problems associated with Wireless Communication (Range limitations, Network Dropouts, etc).

To make your cRIO Wireless you can certainly use this method and it should work great, I've personally done it and haven't had any issues.

Check out the tutorial we have on our website for Making PACs Wireless with NI Industrial Wi-Fi Access Points. You could also check out the 3rd Party Wi-fi Module for cRIO.

It is possible to do this with DHCP, but setting all your addresses statically makes things much easier in a closed/private network setting.

[gtrevino80]

Thank you. We might use a more robust solution later for now we can play with this.