programming 8 thymio from 8 different pcs with vpl

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programming 8 thymio from 8 different pcs with vpl

ngeo23 28 Mar 2019 18:57

hello, we have 8 thymio wireless and we want to programm each one independently from 8 pcs. I have done the thymio wireless configuration but when i open thymio vpl, on the second pc, an error shows that it cannot connect more than one thymio. Each one run great the pre-installed activities.Have you got any experience? can anyone assist? should i give different channel or node identifier to each one? thank you

Re: programming 8 thymio from 8 different pcs with vpl

riedo 29 Mar 2019 14:39

Hello,

if you want to use 8 wireless thymio in parallel, they need to have each a different network identifier. If Thymio VPL give you an error message, it means that several robots have the same network id.
When you do the network configuration, please make sure you label the dongles to not mix them, and configure one robot at a time (the others are off and their dongles unplugged). Give each robot a network id (for example 0x0001, 0x0002, …, 0x0008). Do not change the node id. Divide the robots among the 3 channels as a precaution to avoid interference, though having them all on the same channel is not the cause of your problem.

Kind Regards