auggie with mpg

[Richard Cullin]

how do go about getting a mpg to work with auggie ?
have wired it up like this

[Richard Cullin]

pokeys setting, I know this screen shot is a demo the real pokeys is set as per this

[ArtF]

Hi Richard:

  Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this, Ive been away.

  I know MPGS are tested, YaNvrNo used them for me as a test. I will reseach to see how its done,
but as I recall you simply hook them up as per Pokeys and select the MPG state in Auggie. The state will
change to something like 10 and will jog by MPG ( and do nothing else) till MPG mode is turned off.

  Do you get any responce in MPG mode in Auggie? Does the state change ( DRO in upper right that displays a 3 when you reset Auggie).

Thx
Art


Art

[Richard Cullin]

I get no response from auggie to the mpg , the mpg counts as expected using the pokeys encoder raw values test

[ArtF]

Richard:

Does the state change to a number 10 when you select MPG mode and is the jogging enable button lit?

Art

[Richard Cullin]

yes
I get a message set mpg mode %d and state goes from 3 to 10

[ArtF]

Richard:

Thx, Ill check it out. I may have to add a couple of mpg's to see whats up. I do have a few on the shelf.
Ill get back to you, they should work.

Art

[ArtF]

Jim:

  In the pokeys pulse engine engine config there is a setting for which encoder is for what axis, and a enable/disable.
Is that turned on?

Art

[Richard Cullin]

no , I missed that bit .  I was hoping to use one mpg with a switch to change axis

[Richard Cullin]

ok that's one axis.
is it possible to move multiple axis' with one mpg ?

[ArtF]

Hi:

Hmm, Im not sure. Once you select state #10, all control is in the pokeys hands. So the way
it operates will be as they describe it as I have no control from Auggies side. I dont think they
allow for one to control both, BUT, I suspect you could just switch one of the encoder outputs between
two inputs. Theres likely a control there to set it from Auggies side from software though, if so Ill add a script control for it so a button could swap the axis for one encoder.

Art

[Richard Cullin]

looking at the pendant connector gives the impression that its possible somehow

[Richard Cullin]

art

is there a  setmpgmode()  and or a onmpg()  function that could set/reset a pin to reflect mpg state and
a way to read a pin to set mpg mode on/off ?

i'm now thinking of a microcontroller to switch mpg signals to relevant enc pins ,it would be nice to control jogging from the mpg unit
might make wireless too , go the whole hog

[ArtF]

Richard:

  In checkng it looks to me like the pendent reports to software in its plugin ( in mach3 for example) and the software then takes care of jogging. That would allow for swapping axis, trouble is, I leave it to the pokeys to
manage its own MPG capabilities, so it limits it to 1 MPG per axis with no swapping as far as I can tell.
  I will look into adding it to Auggie to do this, but it would be a complex upgrade as Auggie woudl have to deal with the MPg on its own and I havent added any code as yet to support that.

Art

[ArtF]

Richard:

  In re-reading, it looks like if you connect your encoder as the one encoder input to the pendent connector,
and then use the axis switch inputs so select what axis will mpg jog, then it should work when in State 10
as the pokeys is then in full control.
  As I read it, when wired up that way, Auggie will switch to the pendent when you select MPG mode. I think
you need only have the "control switch" input on the pendent set to on as well.

Do you have the pokeys PulseEngine.pdf, it shows the wiring of it?

Art