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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: July 01, 2018, 01:24:16 AM »

You are posting faster than me, read my last post... sorry

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: July 01, 2018, 01:21:01 AM »

Hi,
OK so you have a keyboard not just a series of push buttons?

Does the keyboard come with any documentation as to how the keys are coded?

Its possible that the keyboard issues serial pulses to represent ASCII characters in which case we a re barking up the wrong tree.

Do you mind me asking why bother with another keyboard? I mean it sounds like you are duplicating the keyboard on your PC. There is a thread by a guy
who has made his own panel which had individual pushbuttons for various functions and an MPG handwheel. I'll see if I can find it.

Craig

notice my card is not a c25 its c11g i posted website...

On key board its not here yet...its a x keys board i think is brand,...but i have been tryn to use external switches but
Ive been through 2 pokey cards tryn to get the external buttons working, il get it working for a few mins then the card locks up an wont let me back in it, so thats why im try something different witb the key strokes because if i can map functions to keys then the ipac will do my external joysticks an my e keys will do my other  random functions...im feel so beat thats why im tryn to use the keyboard plugin in mach 4 so im not burning up cards with inputs an outputs if thats whats killing my cards

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: July 01, 2018, 01:13:56 AM »

C11g i believe  but im using 10 through 15 for  limits an emergency stop so i think im out of inputs they are labeled outputs in diagram but i belive thst a typo those are inputs

https://www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/products-page/breakout-boards-mpg/c11g-multifunction-cnc-board/

Sordy i had to double check i te wrote it i guess after you posted c25 info

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: July 01, 2018, 12:01:46 AM »

This info you are giving me is a way to add button by bob, but to add a keystroke function do you know how thats done?, ive purchased a programmable keyboard that has 80 keys that can have functions programmed to keys an i also have a ipac that emulates keyboard keys,..i went through 2 pokey cards with no luck, not sure why there not working

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: June 30, 2018, 11:38:53 PM »

C11g i believe  but im using 10 through 15 for  limits an emergency stop so i think im out of inputs they are labeled outputs in diagram but i belive thst a typo those are inputs

https://www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/products-page/breakout-boards-mpg/c11g-multifunction-cnc-board/

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: June 30, 2018, 11:06:27 PM »

I dont want to burn it up by hooking + or - into wrong input

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: June 30, 2018, 09:24:46 PM »

Whay will trigger the esz input 5v or grnd?

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Mach4 General Discussion / easy way i can make "Enable, Cycle start,ect" in mach 4 work with key stroke

« on: June 30, 2018, 08:26:18 PM »

using mach 4 on win 10

 there is a keyboard plugin in mach 4 but it has loaded with keystrokes you can map to keys but its limited in what functions you can map to a key,...or is ther a way to add some that arent ther into it...
whats the easiest way i can make mach4 buttons like "CYCLE START" , "FEED HOLD", "STOP", ''ENABLE"  need to start when i hit a key on keyboard,... im thinking its in the lua script or code im guessing but i have not a clue in how to do it or use it, ive tried to figure the script out but its just to much right now im pulling my hair out tryn to figure it out, Therese no vids that i know of unless yal can point me in right direction

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: "Jog inc" is under ouput signals so how to trigger inc Jog step in mach 4??

« on: June 28, 2018, 09:21:44 PM »

Even then i still have same problem with that being set as a output, but i did findthe function i want in the keyboard map plugin, but i gota figure out how to make ess or pokeys trigger a keyboard key an all will be right with the FORCE AGAIN

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: "Jog inc" is under ouput signals so how to trigger inc Jog step in mach 4??

« on: June 28, 2018, 09:18:35 PM »

No only using the 1 but pikeys seem to have allot more inputs an outputs then the one i have, pikeys has over 50 an my ess only had like 15 may be slightly off on #s