Chinese Remote Controller

[Tony Woollacott]

Ok, so I bought this remote contrller off of ebay , I checked and saw that there had been good feedback left . It arrived today and looks really good for the price, but if the buttons don't do anything its of no use to me.
I plugged it in to a USB port and the power light comes on, but thats the end of the good news! I don't want to put it down because I am pretty sure that its me who does't know how to connect it up to Mach3.
I have done everything it says in the instructions, which is simply to plug it in and then re-config the hotkeys, but no joy. I would expect that it needs to be aligned with something in Mach3, but what?
Can anyone throw some happiness my way please, I would love this thing to work.

[HimyKabibble]

"this remote contrller off of ebay" doesn't give us anything to work with....

[Tony Woollacott]

sorry, I was going to try and paste the page in but could'nt. The link below is the one in question.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MACH3-CNC-USB-Manual-Remote-Controller-U1-/330628965926?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Automation_Control_ET&hash=item4cfb05a626

[Hood]

Looks like it must just be emulating a keyboard so all you should have to do is go to Config menu then System HotKeys and then press the X++ on that page and when the box pops up press the key on the pendant for X+ and then do the same for the others. For E-Stop  etc I presume the keys must correspond to the hotkey assignment in Mach so should work fne if you use a standard screenset.

Personally I would never rely on it as a sole E-Stop but may be ok if used as an additional one.
Hood

[budman68]

This may be of some interest to you- 

http://www.youtube.com/user/cncnutz#p/a/u/0/Mnum5PgvHWw

Dave

[Tony Woollacott]

Thanks, it looks like the unit is faulty, because windows is supposed to detect it automatically, but I have tried it on 3 PC's and no luck. I will have to send it back and try again, it's just my luck because it seems no-one else has had this problem.