Manually Setting the Driver Station to Start Custom Dashboard

Note

If WPILib is not installed to the default location (such as when files are copied to a PC manually), the dashboard of choice may not launch properly. To have the DS start a custom dashboard when it starts up, you have to manually modify the settings for the default dashboard.

Warning

This is not needed for most installations, try using the appropriate Dashboard Type setting for your language first.

Set Driver Station to Default

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Open the Driver Station software, click on the Setup tab and set the Dashboard setting to Default. Then close the Driver Station!

Locate Dashboard JAR file

Find the location of the dashboard jar file.

Open DS Data Storage file

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Browse to C:\Users\Public\Documents\FRC and double click on FRC DS Data Storage to open it.

DashboardCmdLine

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Locate the line beginning with DashboardCmdLine.

Replace the string after = with java -jar "C:\\PATH\\TO\\DASHBOARD.jar" where the path specified is the path to the dashboard jar file. Save the FRC DS Data Storage file.

Tip

If the dashboard jar file was located at C:\Users\USERNAME\frc\dashboard.jar, one should replace the string after = with java -jar "C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\frc\\dashboard.jar"

Launch Driver Station

The Driver Station should now launch the dashboard each time it is opened.