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Third party software and hardware support forums. => PoKeys => Topic started by: AlexRu on February 18, 2018, 04:13:17 AM
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Hello,
I have built a custom pendant with wiring like in the documentation and connected to the pendant connector. I also have added a matrix-keyboard. With the matrix-keyboard I call OEMButtons and on some I call OEMTrig over OEMButton 301.
Everything is working fine, until I use the rotary encoder to move an axis. As soon as the rotary encoder is used, macro execution in mach3 stops working. I can't execute macros. Beeing mapped to buttons in the screenset or over the matrix-keyboard. No macro runs. Only direct calls to OEMButtons work. In screenset and at matrix-keyboard.
When switching to keyboard Jog Mode, macros will run again.
PoKeys57CNC V1.1, Firmware and Software 4.3.8, mach3 plugin from 31.12.17.
Is this behaviour maybe a problem of the firmware, the plugin or a problem of mach3?
Greets
Alex
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Hi, Alex
Try selecting the option 'Let PoKeys handle MPG jogging' in the plugin settings.
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Hi,
this is set since beginning. I don't have a problem with the rotary and the function of MPG. I have the problem with macros. No single macro will run, when I have used the rotary to move an axis. Beeing it X,Y or Z, 1 step or multiple steps. I have to go back to keyboard movement to be able to run macros again. Seems like when the rotary is used, it blocks macro execution in mach3.
As I have used my parallel-port cable for the Pendant, I cannot recheck the MPG function with a standard parallel-port bob, if it is the MPG function in mach3 itself (or maybe the screenset, but standard functions of mach3 are used), or if it is the PoKeys-plugin.
Greets
Alex