Hal_input Help!!

Ok. So I am trying to use a Pokeys55 with EMC.

Pokeys setup:

Pretty simple right now one rotay switch connected to digital inputs to the pokeys which are then mapped to joystick buttons. When configured in windows I can see all of the digital inputs change state as expected.

Emc hal setup.

I have loaded Hal_input and can start EMC and view all of my pins in hal.

Problem.

If I plug the pokeys in and start EMC. Go to Hal meter or configuration to view pin status. When i rotate the switch the pins will go high and stay high.

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Close EMC and restart EMC (NOT the whole PC) View pin status again all are low and the pins do respond at all.

If I unplug the pokeys and plug it back in, this cycle repeats.

Any Ideas where to look?

John,

Yes i set the permission and also ran,

sudo addgroup plugdev
sudo addgroup myloginname plugdev

to verifiy.

To load the PoKeys i used,

loadusr -W hal_input -KRAL PoKeys:0 PoKeys:1

I had to load the two components as the pokeys shows up as two devices.

0 = standard HID joystick
1 = standard HID Keyboard

As background if i map the digital inputs on the pokeys to keyboard buttons it seems to work fine. I just dont know if thats just linux reconizing the keyboard like any other keyboard

John,

here is a screen shot of the less /proc/bus/input/devices response

I will add another post with my pokeys config.

John,


Here is the Pokeys Config file. FYI,I had to rename the file extension to .txt to upload


Thanks
JP