DIY Arduino ATC Pathpilot....

Heard back from the author:

The number of tools, type of spindle and other things I can not remember must match the tool changer code (in the Arduino file) and the configuration file loaded by pathpilot...it depends on what machine you're running as to what info is loaded up. If hey don't match pathpilot will try to update the toolchanger...and fail as this is not written into the code, it was really a starting point and some coding experience is required I'm afraid.

Unfortunately I got to France in the morning and so could be out of communication next week...

Hope this little snippet helps, I haven't been near for such a long time as my machine is now a knee mill and a toolchanger is far too much work at the moment.

Are you trying to run this via VM or anything like that (not sure it makes a difference). If the arduino is ready, I am not sure why it would miss the commands?

The PP code shows it makes 3 attempts to get the info . It does not wait around for an answer before it tries again. The monitor shows that it responded 3 times with the VE and then once with the VL command. I do not know WHAT PP is expecting for data so there is no way to compared what is sent verses what is expected. All I can say is it never gets past this point.

I am looking through the code again to see IF I can determine exactly what PP is looking for in the responce string.

( TP

I did read on a couple of sites where people had to disable the loader in the Arduino because it made it too slow on startup. I did find what PP is looking for but not the exact values it is expecting to see.

still snooping , ( TP

Are you looking in the python file for the atc?  Off the top of my head it’s zbot something or other.  It has all the serial stuff in it.

OK I slowed down the PP atc query and that was not the problem so I need to figure out what the exact string info PP is looking for next then see IF it is in the responce string from the Arduino.

Like eating an elephant, one bite at a time..

( TP

Went back to the Errorlog and it shows a Com timeout issue and it does not see the VE responce. It tried 3 times and failed each time. Pretty much out of ideas to try.

( TP