👩‍💻Programming Your Radio At Home

When at an official FIRST event, the Vivid-Hosting Radio Kiosk will be available for teams to easily program their radios with a GUI interface.

Overview

This page will discuss how to program your VH-109 Robot Radio at home. When at an official FIRST event, you will use the Vivid-Hosting Radio Kiosk to program your radio.

Instructions

1

Configure Your Computer

There are two options to configure your computer:

DHCP

If the configuring computer has it's network interface configured to obtain an IP address via DHCP, the computer will be able to reach the VH-109 device at 10.XX.YY.1 (Client/STA mode) or 10.XX.YY.4 (AP mode).

VH-109's programmed at the factory are configured to team #1 in Client/STA mode, setting the IP address to 10.0.1.1.

Network Assistant Tool

The Network Assistant Tool is a custom tool developed by Vivid-Hosting to configure your computer to connect to your VH-109 radio.

Use the instructions on the Network Assistant Tool page to set a static IP address on your computer, then proceed to Step 2.

Manually Assign Static IP

The VH-109 device is also pre-programmed with a failsafe/management IP address in the 192.168.69.0/24 subnet to reach the management IP of the VH-109 radio. For example, the network interface on your driver station laptop can be temporarily configured to:

IP Address	192.168.69.2
Subnet Mask	255.255.255.0
Gateway	Leave Blank
DNS	192.168.69.1 or Leave Blank

2

Connect To Your Radio

Create a wired or wireless connection between the computer and the radio.

3

Navigate To Radio Configuration Page

Depending on the type of connection, this can be reached one of three ways:

Wired	http://192.168.69.1/
Wireless (DHCP) Factory Default	http://10.0.1.1/
Wireless (DHCP) Team Number Previously Set	http://10.XX.YY.1/

Radios running firmware >1.1.0 (released 02/04/2024) include an mDNS responder. The radio can also be reached at http://radio.local/

4

Configure The Radio

Field	Description
Robot Radio Mode	This means the device will act like a robot radio (Client/STA Mode)
Access Point Mode	This means the device will act like an access point for a radio to connect to.
Team Number	Your team's FRC team number
SSID Suffix	A suffix that is appended to the end of the SSID. Ex: "1538-coolbot"
WPA Key For 6GHz Connection	The key for 6GHz connection
WPA Key For 2.4GHz Access Point	The key for 2.4GHz connection (See Note)

When DIP switch #3 is in the ON position AND a valid connection to an 6GHz 802.11ax Wi-Fi access point is not present, the radio will simultaneously broadcast as a 2.4GHz 802.11ax Wi-Fi access point with the SSID of "FRC-XXYY" where XXYY is the programmed team number. If a suffix is provided, the SSID will be "FRC-XXYY-SUFFIX" where SUFFIX is the programmed suffix identifier.

Once the radio successfully connects to a 6GHz 802.11ax Wi-Fi access point, the 2.4Ghz 802.11ax Wi-Fi access point will shut down until the device is power cycled.

Please keep in mind that when using the Access Point feature enabled by DIP switch #3, radio performance can be severely affected in highly congested 2.4 GHz wireless environments. It is recommended that teams use a SECOND radio and configure it in "Team Access Point Mode".

5

Click Configure

Once you've configured the device, click configure to save it to the radio.