XHC-HB04 wireless MPG pendant HAL module

Hello .\
I pasted the exact MDI_COMMAND you kindly suggested, without knowing what to do with commands 0 to 5 so I left the ... after the = . Is that OK?

The goto zero button now works connected to the MDI 9

now the problem is that my pendant has no touch x , y and z buttons, instead it has a =0 button that is supposed to touch to zero the selected axis with the dial.

so the MDI 6, 7 and 8 commands dont work, if I try to uncomment the next lines it crashes....

#net x0 halui.mdi-command-06 xhc-hb04.button-x0
#net y0 halui.mdi-command-07 xhc-hb04.button-y0
#net z0 halui.mdi-command-08 xhc-hb04.button-z0

I have no idea how to make it work.

Thank you for your help!

Rodolfo

I was reading on this same thread that Tommy managed to use his =0 button but then ran into problems when he said
"But there is still a BIG issue with unwanted switching to joint mode when calling subroutine trough MDI_COMMAND"
And he with Andypough tried to fix it but I don´t know how it ended.

So I don´t know what to do next to make my =0 button work.

Thanks again

rmagnus wrote:

I was reading on this same thread that Tommy managed to use his =0 button but then ran into problems when he said
"But there is still a BIG issue with unwanted switching to joint mode when calling subroutine trough MDI_COMMAND"
And he with Andypough tried to fix it but I don´t know how it ended.

So I don´t know what to do next to make my =0 button work.

Thanks again

You will need to build a HAL config file with AND component to handle the axis selection switch.
For this pendant, use xhc-hb04-layout2.ini layout definition file
If you modify your xhc-hb04.hal file as below, it should work:

Sorry, I have no access to my machine to verify the syntax. Hope there are not too much mistakes !
Frederic.

My machine is a probotix comet so yes it has 2 motors for the y axis. Should I do something different?

Thank you!

I will try it and report back thanks!

So for the Probotix comet with 2 motors for the gantry what should I be aware of ? I don't want to damage it

Thank you

I have no idea! Probotix ships the machine ready to run so this is the first time I hear about that

Where do I look for. Excuse my ignorance

Hello Frederic

Thank you for the help.

I had problem implementing.

I did what you suggest but got this error:

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/and2.ko': -1 File exists
xhc-hb04.hal:3: exit value: 1
xhc-hb04.hal:3: insmod failed, returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for more information.
2375
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components


And if I comment the lone loadrt and2 count=3 I get this error.....

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
xhc-hb04.hal:52: Pin 'and2.0.in0' was already linked to signal 'switches-y1'
2076
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components


Please advice!

Thank you
Rodolfo