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Add warning and troubleshooting for disabled web server (#2877)
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* Add warning and troubleshooting for disabled web server

Fixes wpilibsuite/2025Beta#74

* Remove acronymn

* remove acronymn v2

Co-authored-by: Jason Daming <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Jason Daming <[email protected]>
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sciencewhiz and jasondaming authored Dec 24, 2024
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The :doc:`roboRIO's webserver </docs/software/roborio-info/roborio-web-dashboard>` provides some debugging and enables some configuration. However, it also takes memory away from the robot program. You can disable it by clicking on the :guilabel:`Disable Web Server` button. If you'd like to enable it again, you can click :guilabel:`Enable Web Server`.

.. warning:: the Imaging Tool will not be able to connect to the roboRIO when the Web Server is disabled.

## roboRIO Identification

Clicking the :guilabel:`Blink` button will cause the roboRIO's Radio LED to blink a few times to help identify the roboRIO.
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Expand Up @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ If you are unable to image your roboRIO, troubleshooting steps include:

- Try running the roboRIO Imaging Tool as Administrator by right-clicking on the Desktop icon to launch it.
- Try accessing the roboRIO webpage with a web-browser at ``http://172.22.11.2/`` and/or verify that the NI network adapter appears in your list of Network Adapters in the Control Panel. If not, try re-installing the NI FRC Game Tools or try a different PC.
- Use the :doc:`RoboRIO Team Number Setter </docs/software/wpilib-tools/roborio-team-number-setter/index>` to ensure the Web Server is enabled.
- :ref:`Disable all other network adapters <docs/networking/networking-introduction/roborio-network-troubleshooting:Disabling Network Adapters>`
- Make sure your firewall is turned off.
- Some teams have experienced an issue where imaging fails if the device name of the computer you're using has a special character (e.g. dash ``-``), or number in it, or the name is too long. Try renaming the computer (or using a different PC). On Windows 11, to rename the PC, go to Settings > System > About and click :guilabel:`Rename this PC`
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.. figure:: images/roborio2-imaging/teamnumber.png
:alt: The edit Startup Settings portion of the imaging utility allow a team to renumber their robot.

The team number can also be set using the :doc:`RoboRIO Team Number Setter </docs/software/wpilib-tools/roborio-team-number-setter/index>`.

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