QtDragon USB gamepad jogging

turbostew
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5 years 7 months ago #200755 by turbostew

QtDragon USB gamepad jogging was created by turbostew

Hello All,

I am trying to get my USB game pad to do jogging with buttons just like the arrow/pgu/dn buttons. I have the hal getting all the signals from the game pad and I can see them working on the hal meter but I am a bit confused how to connect it to the QtGragon GUI (using linuxcnc 2.9). I read a few tutorials but they are older and for analog jogging. I connected them in my main HAL like so but no luck, also tried many, many other things.

net axis-select-x input.0.abs-a-is-pos => halui.axis.x.select
net jog-x-pos input.0.abs-hat0x-is-pos => halui.axis.x.plus halui.joint.0.plus
net jog-x-neg input.0.abs-hat0x-is-neg => halui.axis.x.minus halui.joint.0.minus

Idears???

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5 years 7 months ago #200756 by persei8

Replied by persei8 on topic QtDragon USB gamepad jogging

This is how I do mine.

Code:

loadrt or2 count=3
loadrt mux4 count=1
addf or2.0 servo-thread
addf or2.1 servo-thread
addf or2.2 servo-thread
addf mux4.0 servo-thread

..... bunch of other stuff

setp mux4.0.in0 0 # this one must be 0 to prevent motion unless a button is pressed
setp mux4.0.in1 600
setp mux4.0.in2 1200
setp mux4.0.in3 2400

# the following sets the jog speeds
net remote-speed-slow or2.1.in0 input.0.btn-a
net remote-speed-medium or2.0.in0 input.0.btn-b
net remote-speed-fast or2.1.in1 or2.0.in1 input.0.btn-x

net joy-speed-1 mux4.0.sel0 <= or2.1.out
net joy-speed-2 mux4.0.sel1 <= or2.0.out
net joy-speed-final halui.axis.jog-speed <= mux4.0.out

net joy-x-jog halui.axis.x.analog <= input.0.abs-x-position 
net joy-y-jog halui.axis.y.analog <= input.0.abs-y-position 
net joy-z-jog halui.axis.z.analog <= input.0.abs-ry-position 

setp input.0.abs-y-scale -127.5
setp input.0.abs-z-scale -127.5

It uses 2 OR2's but I need a third for other stuff.
This works for a sixaxis PS3 controller so you may need some adjustments.
Jim

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5 years 7 months ago #200780 by cmorley

Replied by cmorley on topic QtDragon USB gamepad jogging

Your code probably would have worked except you didn't set a jog speed in halui.

Jogging with dragon and jogging with halui are completely separate.

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5 years 7 months ago #200794 by turbostew

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Thanks Jim and Chris,

Ok, got it working, one of my problems was I was not homing first. Did not know it only works when homed. How do I make jog work when not homed?

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5 years 7 months ago #200803 by turbostew

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i found a hint, had to add joint. that works for unhomed...

net jog-speed halui.axis.jog-speed halui.joint.jog-speed
net joy-x-jog input.0.abs-hat0x-position => halui.axis.x.analog halui.joint.0.analog

Kent

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5 years 7 months ago #200897 by cmorley

Replied by cmorley on topic QtDragon USB gamepad jogging

Yes I should probably add optional jog pins to qtvcp to avoid HALUI altogether.

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