Wireless USB MPG/Pendant Support

yaddatrance

Lol, I'm Ken Dizzeru on Facebook, I have that same pendant. I hate it very much. The way they implemented the buffer for the MPG is dangerous, the designer has obviously NEVER used a CNC with a jogwheel.

The protocol is available (http://forum.planet-cnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1125) and I thought it was mach 3/windows that was the problem, so I played around using it to send commands for my pick and place (OpenPNP), but after figuring out how to read the data, it has two modes... "Annoying joystick mode" and "Crash machine mode"... In "annoying joystick mode", the faster you crank, the faster it moves.... but no relationship between steps and position.... basically a shitty video game about fishing... In "Crash machine mode", I discovered the unit itself just loses steps for no reason, then pauses and buffer steps for no reason and then send all the steps at once causing machine to fly everywhere. Using a CNC with it is like a shitty video game about driving, but more dangerous.

Maybe you should try getting a USB bluetooth module working in DDCS? Then you can use wireless keypads as well as DIY panels that use arduino to HC05 bluetooth modules or maybe ESP32 that act like keyboards. e.g. https://github.com/Galzai/MK32 or maybe https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Black-34-Keys-Mini-Numpad-Wireless-Bluetooth-Numeric-Keypad-For-Apple-PC-keyboard-Numpads-Keypads-2018/32946936840.html

yaddatrance

Lindo, Since you have a keyboard, the Del key will unmount the usb stick so you can safely shutdown or remove the usb stick

yaddatrance

Lindo, the DEL key on the main keyboard (not number pad) unmounts the usb stick... I haven't tried but the 'F10' and Numpad's '*' acts like the mode key normally (which is used to delete files in the file tab) so I would use caution pressing those keys in the file tab.

ESC homes to the main page or selects values in parameters, and does not unmount disks.
Also note that the Number pad's Delete key zeros an axis.