How to make a tool changer move to home

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07 Jan 2021 17:45 #194381 by Aciera
I'm fairly busy with other projects. I'll try to have a look at it in the next few days.
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07 Jan 2021 17:48 #194383 by Clive S

I'm fairly busy with other projects. I'll try to have a look at it in the next few days.


Thanks there is no hurry at all.

I have plenty of other things to get on with.

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08 Jan 2021 07:38 - 08 Jan 2021 07:56 #194472 by Aciera
Had a quick look. I'm really out of my depth here (again) but I'll take a stab anyway. This seems to come from the bowels of halui.cc and, if I'm looking at the right thing, it seems to want to send an mdi command while it's not in MDI mode? Not sure what "%d" stands for.

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This is from axis.py and it seems to use MANUAL mode when homing all joints:

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I wonder if it's trying to run the MDI command (o714 call) while doing the 'home_all_joints' thing.

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Maybe comment out the line 23 in your .hal and try again just to be sure:
# net x-is-homed-dly  <=  delay.homed.out  =>  halui.mdi-command-00

If that makes the problem go away, you could uncomment line 23 again and try to increase the delay for calling the MDI command (.hal, line 19):
setp delay.homed.on-delay 2.0

to something like this:
setp delay.homed.on-delay 10.0

If that works you could then lower the delay again to find the minimal delay necessary.

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Just noticed we seem to have the wrong axis on .hal lines 22,23:
net x-is-homed  <= halui.joint.0.is-homed  => delay.homed.in  
net x-is-homed-dly  <=  delay.homed.out  =>  halui.mdi-command-00

shouldn't we be using this (since Z is the last to home):
net z-is-homed  <= halui.joint.1.is-homed  => delay.homed.in  
net z-is-homed-dly  <=  delay.homed.out  =>  halui.mdi-command-00

So maybe if you change this then all will be resolved.
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08 Jan 2021 11:31 #194477 by Clive S

net x-is-homed <= halui.joint.0.is-homed => delay.homed.in
net x-is-homed-dly <= delay.homed.out => halui.mdi-command-00

shouldn't we be using this (since Z is the last to home):

net z-is-homed <= halui.joint.1.is-homed => delay.homed.in
net z-is-homed-dly <= delay.homed.out => halui.mdi-command-00

So maybe if you change this then all will be resolved.


As usual you were not out of your depth . I should have noticed that myself. :blush:

That was the problem.

I have attached my config for the Boxford 125 tool changer for the benefit of others.

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