Adding a ShuttleXpress

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23 Jun 2020 20:09 #172501 by Haarie

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You can disable it in from the setttings - input devices so you can use it only in LinuxCNC.

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25 Jun 2020 04:04 #172684 by JetForMe

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Settings in Debian somewhere? Or in LinuxCNC?

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25 Jun 2020 11:53 #172707 by tommylight

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Probably in Debian.

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25 Jun 2020 12:45 #172720 by JetForMe

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Yeah, my googling has not been successful on the subject, and the Plasma UI doesn't seem to surface anything appropriate. I'll keep searching.

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25 Jun 2020 13:07 #172725 by JetForMe

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Ah, I found it! The command is xinput. I had to install it (sudo apt install xinput). With that you can see that the ShuttleXpress is a “slave pointer” “slave keyboard,” and you can “float” those so they no longer affect the UI.

rmann@router:~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Contour Design ShuttleXpress              id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse                id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Logitech USB Keyboard                     id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Logitech USB Keyboard                     id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Contour Design ShuttleXpress              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
rmann@router:~ $ xinput float 9
rmann@router:~ $ xinput float 13

Unfortunately this doesn't stick around. This page talks about calling xinput in the ~/.xsessionrc file, but I wasn't sure the IDs would persist. I did some quick tests, and they seem to, at least if you don't move the ShuttleXpress from one USB port to another. It even survived this, but I don’t know if it will with a reboot mixed in. That page has a script for searching the list more robustly. For now I'm hoping the IDs stay the same.

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25 Jun 2020 13:28 #172726 by JetForMe

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Ah, yeah, the IDs change if you reboot with it plugged in elsewhere. Might also change if another USB device is added. I'm gonna work on that script solution referenced above.

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26 Jun 2020 08:23 #172779 by JetForMe

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This seems to work:

xinput list | grep ShuttleXpress | sed -ne 's/^[^V].*id=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' | while read id
do
	xinput float $id
done

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10 Jul 2020 20:30 #174268 by Haarie

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10 Jul 2020 20:38 - 10 Jul 2020 20:43 #174270 by Haarie

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Here is my working shuttle.hal file for version 2.9, the only thing to add/change is: loadrt or2 count=4 in the .hal file, I use an other or2 so your count can differ.

I found this file here and had to modify it a little to got it work in 2.9.

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17 Oct 2020 00:48 #186336 by JetForMe

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Haarie wrote:
Here is my working shuttle.hal file for version 2.9, the only thing to add/change is: loadrt or2 count=4 in the .hal file, I use an other or2 so your count can differ.

I found this file here and had to modify it a little to got it work in 2.9.

Thanks for that. I tried to take the jog wheel part to add to my config, but unfortunately, up to now, I've been using halui to handle jogging. That component doesn't have the jog-count pins. So my big question is, should I be using halui or motion/motmod to drive the jogging?

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