Access Mesa Pins from QTPYVCP

Hello,

i have installed QTPYVCP on my Machine and played a bit with it. Its very nice and works fine. Then i found, that i can add Buttons and other GUI Elements very easy to the GUI. But there is my Question:
How can i connect the Button to a In or Outputpin of my Mesa 7i76e ? I want to enable my vacuumpump via Relais.
It would be very nuce, if somebody can help me.

Thank you!

Have a nice day.

Okay thx. I tried it with qtpyvcp.MYBUTTONNAME... but qtpyvcp was not found...
I will try it with iocontrol. Thank you.

I was just at the machine and tried it. However, my ActionButton is not displayed in the HAL. Do I need to make any other settings in QTDesigner? I had added a normal button the last few days and it was displayed in the HAL.

But I don't want to use that for cooling but for a vacuum table and other things. What would I then enter instead of: iocontrol.0.coolant-flood ?Can I only take predefined? Like here in the case collant-flood ? Where do I write my button name or something like that ?

Apologese if I am missing the point but if you want to adjust the gui and use a button or other gui control to activate a HAL pin that you are using to control a relay or some such to activate your vacum pump (or antything else for that matter) then you can look at:
www.qtpyvcp.com/widgets/hal/index.html

However if you want to activate and deactivate via gcode you need to look at the M62 to M65 gcodes. These trigger on/off bits on the motion.digital-out-xx (where xx is a number per documentation).

Edit 1: Equally if your machine has no coolant function there is nothing wrong with using the existing coolant pins. However if you do have coolant as a capability as well as the vac system then see above for ideas.

Edit 2: If you want to change the button name for an existing coolant button then you will either need to open the .ui file in qtdesigner and adjust the button text or open the .ui file in a text editor, search for the existing button txt and change it. Depending on the gui there may be a need to run the qcompile command (www.qtpyvcp.com/tools/qcompile.html).


Cheers - J.

Thank you very much. That was the Clue. Iam using HALButtons right now. And now i works.