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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 MQTT Client

« on: April 04, 2019, 04:28:07 PM »

Hi made this work to send messages from Mach 4 thanks all!

has any one been able to have it send tool change messages? i have not found that part of the code yet.

cheers
Raptor

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Arduino GPIO and sensors - has anyone done it?

« on: February 21, 2019, 02:18:26 PM »

Thanks all,

i will most likey go with the "have the arduino raise a pin and notify the BoB" methold until i can work out the serial communications.

My ultimate goal is to have the Temp readout in mach 4 but having it trigger a stop on high temp and low flow would be sufficient for now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: encoder counts into a dro

« on: February 21, 2019, 02:16:21 PM »

would you be willing to share the solution to this?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Arduino GPIO and sensors - has anyone done it?

« on: February 20, 2019, 04:10:51 PM »

currently i am using a parallel port board, but im considering moving to a PoKeys or a Warp9 ESS.

the sensors i have hooked up to the arduino now is:

flow sensor:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/828?gclid=CjwKCAiAkrTjBRAoEiwAXpf9CRjsMO3gZVK2a2yW4xUgGDR3OFu6lz3xyUpw6CaN1Wa2ldT4fUcYphoCerYQAvD_BwE

temp sensor:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/381

they are reporting info back via MQTT right now. that is option b is to make mach4 work with MQTT.

serial or modbus would work also, but i don't know how to start integrating those with mach4

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Mach4 General Discussion / Arduino GPIO and sensors - has anyone done it?

« on: February 20, 2019, 03:43:22 PM »

Hi,

so ive been using Mach 4 for a few months now and i would really like to be able to bring in some sensor values and inputs and outputs into mach 4 that my BOB doesn't support.

Specifically a water temp and flow sensor on my spindle and outputs for my shop vac, lights etc.

ive not seen anything specific for using an arduino for this. has anyone done it?

thanks
Raptor

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 MQTT Client

« on: January 03, 2019, 11:16:36 AM »

i'm interested in setting up mqtt with mach4. is the bidirectional communication working?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: January 02, 2019, 10:56:42 AM »

this is something i am trying to do, i was able to make my huangyang work with spindle talker 2 and with 0-10v but it would be nice to have modbus working. i dont even know where to start with writing a plugin or how the modbus is supposed to work

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 and lasers

« on: January 02, 2019, 09:51:34 AM »

awesome thanks,

im using the darwin plugin with mach4 and a BoB today.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 and lasers

« on: December 29, 2018, 04:58:13 PM »

Hi, apologies if this has been brought up before, but the search seems to be broken.

im looking to add a small laser to my CNC to allow for marking of parts and basic vector engraving.

has anyone done this with mach4? if so what controller was used and how was it controlled. im looking to move away from my parallel port breakout to something like a pokeys57cnc but want to make sure its going to do what i need going forward.

thanks
Raptor

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: TUTORIAL FOR SETTING UP MACH4 and MODBUS RTU / TCP and a HITACHI WJ200 VFD

« on: October 23, 2018, 02:28:38 PM »

Awesome! i was trying to get modbus to work with my Hunayang VFD today to no luck!