Updating Probing Routines with Probe Enabled Pin

Good morning

Before i go down a path of updating all the Probing routines i wanted a sanity check. 

I am running 2.9-Pre1 and Probe Basic from the Python3 branch. Things are working great, I am at the stage of integrating the probe protection (Only allow probing to run when the probe is connected using topcom.cz/products/smart/smartmer2/ allows combing of different NPN / PNP inputs and also dose disconnected device detection) For this to work i was going to add in M64Px and M65Px for signaling that probing operations should be enabled. (This is working fine in the ETS).

Is there a best practice for adding in and using a variable to pass into the different probing scripts or am i just going to need to do a copy / replace type action.  

What i did for the ETS was the following.
In the Variables section
Then above the section with the G38.2 i put 
and after the probing has stopped

If the best approach is to use a global variable from linuxcnc.var and reference that in all the probe files is there register of variables so i dont tread on anyone else? (Would use 4 Variables, TS Probe Protection, TS Probe Protection Pin, Probe Protection, Probe Protection Pin). 

hope that all makes sense.

I added a section to the default.ini as then it could persist if the linuxcnc.var got wiped.

In there put the 2 pin numbers and then created 2 new subroutines one for enable / one for disable.

Then did a search and replace for all the G38's to have the enable above and the disable below.

Hi daveyr,
Sorry for reviving this thread but I am working on setting up my mill to use the same smartmer/2 probe guard that you used. Is it still working ok for you with how you integrated it into your probing routines? Also, would you mind sharing your default.ini file? Also, can you share how you hooked up the smartmer/2 to your controller? The probe works great but the documentation is not the gratest with regards to how the guard function works.  Thank you for sharing.

-Sean
 

Don't worry my reply is even older. I ended up not using the probe protection pins in the end. As if there was any real vibration from the machine it kept on tripping while moving.

I had tried to switch to the DIG3D.Fix but that is what just kept on tripping on me so i went back to the DIG-Z.Fix and have just learnt a lot more now so crash way less regularly.