Remembering LED and DRO status

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I haven't fooled around with my screen set it awhile and added some buttons/dros/leds the other day except the two dros and leds aren't getting remembered when I restart mach. The dros are 1251 and 1252 - one I added a few months ago, dro 1250, is right next to them and it gets remembered. also the leds i'm using are 1051 and 1052 - what makes mach remember or forget the status when it is closed and restarted?

[BR549]

MACH3 remembers OEM dros and leds.

(;-) TP

[ger21]

What version of Mach3 are you using? Newer versions will remember all of them, while older versions will only remember up to the old limit. Maybe the old limit was 1250?

[BR549]

HIYA GERRY, I must have missed something along the way. We use to have

DROs
OEMDROs
USERDROs

And they were seperate items and used seperate commands to update

Is there a DOC somewhere that defines the current ranges of each. WERE they combined as one range???

Also it seems that I can write to a UserDRO or a OEMdro with ether command

SetUserDRO(1250,33)
and
SetOEMDRO(1250,22)

WIll set the same dro.

Confused again, (;-) TP

[ger21]

I believe you can use OEM for everything except setting UserLED's.

I use DRO's and LED's in the 1800 range.

You can use SetOEMDRO(1800) and GetOEMDRO(1800).

And you can use GetOEMLED(1800), but SetOEMLED(1800) won't work, so you have to use SetUserLED(1800).

As for saving them, I don't know when the change occurred, but earlier 3.0 versions won't save DRO's in the 1800 range, but 3.42 versions will.

The Wiki says the User range was 1000-1254. I believe it's now 1000-2000? I know it was specified at some point on the Yahoo Group years ago, but i don't recall the exact number.

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I running the latest Industry Controls build; and still having the problem. I've tried a few different DROs and LEDs with no luck. The only way it saves is if I enable config and save config - then the led status and dro values are remembered - but if I change them without doing enable/save config then when I restart they're back to same values that were in when I saved config last. Any ideas?

[ger21]

Never seen the Industry Controls version, so can't help you.

[archcomp]

Hello,
Because this is comparatively new discussion, I am adding my query here.
I have made an UserDro No 1111
I am able to use it and manipulate it for some works like parts count etc. But I want to be save immediately after a new value is entered by VB Script or some OEM Code. Because when MAch3 Shuts down abnormally it loses all the updated values from the start.
Please suggest a way around.
Mahesh Vyas

[ger21]

I'd figure out why Mach3 is shutting down abnormally? How can you run a machine if it's randomly shutting down?

[archcomp]

Ger,
Thanks for the answer.
It is not always like that mach3 is shutting down abnormally. But I need to take care of any entualities. Also there is a possibility of power failure.
Mahesh Vyas