Well I have several push buttons on my pendant working in MACH4. These are buttons in a keyboard matrix, so that aspect of POKEYS seems to be working for a few keys. The first two keys in the matrix were Cycle Start and Feedhold. As DazTheGas pointed out in another post on Feedhold this is a two step process. Since Feedhold was not an input but an output you had to use an input and then put some code in the PLC script to send the feedhold command or cyclestart command when it sees that given input. I am struggling to get that to work for Spindle Forward, Spindle Stop, Spindle Reverse buttons. I actually copied the code from the Spindle clockwise button on the screen set and tried to add that to the end of the PLC script but that did not work.
The second issue I have is the MPG seems to be activated all the time. Under the POKEY pendant configuration I do not have the JOGMPG enabled but as soon as I turn the MPG the axis moves. I have dedicated switch inputs for the axis selectors and those work. So if I select Z and turn the MPG it moves, the same for the other axis. I have not been able to get the X1,X10,X100 matrix buttons to work yet. I really wanted to have a button on the screen that would enable the MPG, similar to what MACH3 had when you hit the tab key.
Any suggestions?
Russ