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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: July 30, 2018, 11:43:46 PM »

So here is the deal.

I just started a new job and am still in the process of moving to another state.
My computer (with all the development files) is still in a wearhouse awaiting delivery to our new home, which we are still in the process of closing on.
Even if I had the develpment files and wanted to share them, I cannot.  I signed a non disclosure agreement with Artsoft in order to receive and use their API and therefore cannot share the source code as it refferences the API.

Since you seem confident that you can fix my plugin. I suggest you contact Artsoft and request the API, and perhaps write your own plugin. Even better, express your frustration to XHC for not supporting MACH 4.  Frankly I am getting tired of supporting thier product for free. I wrote this plugin for my machine which took me a long time to figure out. I was kind enough to share it and even went the extra mile to try to accomidate other versions of thier product. But right now I dont have the time, patience, or resources to be dealing with this right now.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: March 27, 2018, 12:14:46 AM »

The wireless feature is handled in the hardware level and is entirely transparent. The driver is the same for the LHB04 (wired) and the WHB04 (wireless). IE. it works for both the wired and wireless versions of the HB04.
However, the WHB04B-4 and WHB04B-6 are entirely different and this driver/plugin will not work. IE. it does not work for any version of the HB04B

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: March 24, 2018, 03:05:11 AM »

er... I think there may be a bit of confusion here.
the driver linked to above should not work for the "B" variant.
it should only work for the WHB04 not the WHB04B
I do have a kludged driver for the WHB04B. I had to code it in the blind, because I don't have the pendent to be able to test it on. So it is kind of one of those "use at your own risk" things. in theory it should work, but if it opens a portal to Hades...   ...message me if you want to try the WHB04B driver.
While I'd love to be spending more time helping everyone get their XHC pendants working under Mach4, my life is a hurricane at the moment and I have very little time to play with this stuff.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: February 26, 2018, 01:08:56 AM »

hey guys, sorry i have been slow to reply. I'm in the process of building a house and have a hundred pot's on the fire.
@Peter Knell, Yes I did hear back from him. He said he has moved on to another job and did not keep any of the files from his previous workplace. again, if you message me, I'll send you what we had when we parted ways. we had it mostly working, there were just a few minor things left if i recall correctly.

@McBride, I have the same issue with the plugin running on my window's 7 machine. Mach refuses to fully shutdown for some reason and has to be shutdown via task manager. I've been poking at it for a while with no success.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 won't shut down

« on: January 19, 2018, 03:35:55 AM »

Where would I put the file mkullman posted ?

that's up to you. I keep it on the desktop, right next to the Mach4 Launcher icon.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 won't shut down

« on: January 18, 2018, 10:05:14 PM »

I have this issue as well (win 7 & win 10)

I cant remember if power-shell runs on WinXP, but others may find this useful.  I made a power-shell script to kill the process, which is a bit easier and faster than opening task manager, finding the process and killing it every time you want to restart Mach4.
here is the code:

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Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "Mach4GUI" } | Select-Object -First 1 | Stop-Processjust cut and past this into a text file and change the extension to .PS1

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: January 08, 2018, 07:34:12 PM »

so I took a closer look at their "driver"  and it is not a driver, it is a plugin. they are using the default HMI driver that comes with windows.
I attempted to do the same thing but had issues so I had to make a more explicit call to the WINUSB driver by making an INI file, telling windows which driver to use.

I am at a loss as to what the issue on your machine is because I cannot seem to duplicate the issue on any of my computers (Win7, Win8.1 & Win10).
it almost seems like windows is ignoring your request to uninstall the driver.

All I can think of is try using a windows restore point or maybe try installing the driver for the actual Shuttle-pro over my driver.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Looking for ideas / advice, i think :)

« on: January 07, 2018, 02:52:00 AM »

I like your idea, but with respect to the fact that a majority of the home-built-CNC market is a Do-it-yourself kind of crowd, you may see more business in the cabinet itself. I.E. many of us pride ourselves in having put the electronics together ourselves, but having a chassis to launch that build from would be a great starting point.

but perhaps you could meet in the middle and offer both.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Xhc HB04 MPG Pendent with Mach4

« on: January 07, 2018, 02:37:23 AM »

If you have a driver that is working for you please pass it along. I am on windows 10 running the latest mach3.

This driver/plugin is for Mach4. XHC has a working driver/plugin for Mach3 that should work for you.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Looking for ideas / advice, i think :)

« on: January 06, 2018, 02:18:28 PM »

I like your idea of custom control cabinets. I know I would be interested in a box or kit that I could get to clean up my existing control cabinet.  I am currently using an old 4U rack mount PC case I hacked the face off of and replaced with aluminum sheets milled into panels. I'd love to upgrade it with something more... professional.

A couple of suggestions for potential markets that may be of interest to you.
3D printer related parts and or Quad-copter drone related parts are pretty hot right now.
within the last couple of months, I've had a few job requests for drone camera mounts and couple requests for brackets to mount a tablet to a RC controller.
As for 3D printer parts, it's very similar to CNC hardware and it attracts the same the do-it-yourself minded people.
I'm sure by poking around in either community, you could drum up some fantastic niche market ideas