At my state championship today, we found that we could toggle the state of the solenoids while field control was disabled. It was my assumption that vexos would automatically ignore all controller inputs while field control was disabled, but we found that this was not the case. We were able to press…

this is just how vexOS behaves with regards to the 3 wire ports. if you wanted, you could disable the control yourself by making the buttons you press not do anything during the pre-auton function, and only during driver.

Shouldn’t controller input be ignored though? [image] Auton Selection on Controller V5 VEX Coding Studio Tech Support Whether or not the brain receives data from the controller depends only on the competition mode. The brain does not receive data from the controller during…

not sure about that, I’ve actually never tried operating my pneumatics under disabled state. that post was from way back in 2018 too, vexos has changed considerably since then.

Yeah, I know that you can still operate 3-wire ports while disabled, but it doesn’t make any sense to me why they would change it so that you could send controller data while disabled. This could probably be exploited to gain an unfair advantage.

I seem to recall @jpearman explained this situation a while back. James, any insight to this situation?

Controller should be disabled. Guess I need to check.

I also noticed this. I have a bad habit of fiddling with controller buttons while waiting for them to start driver (need to start putting my controller down even when they aren’t requiring it to avoid looking like I’m controlling anything), and noticed that my pneumatic cylinders would fire.

huh I know you can set the positions of the pneumatic cylinders in preauton to specific locations. I do that sometimes, typically so preloads dont come off

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Using pneumatics while field control is disabled

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xTigr March 13, 2022, 2:56am 3

Shouldn’t controller input be ignored though?