Hi James, After a lot of other tests I'm quite sure the pins are hooked correct, really the eQep reads something, the only thing is tath it is continually underflow/Overflow...
I'm experimentig varying the QEPCTL settings but without luck (until now). Giuseppe Il giorno sabato 12 ottobre 2013 22:41:58 UTC+2, James Zapico ha scritto: > > I came across that post and Teknoman's library a few weeks ago. I have > been able to compile it and get the eQEP to work on 3.8.13-bone28 Ubuntu > 12.04 (shortly before I carelessly shorted my BBB). Yes, the position sysfs > entry does change when I use it. The only problems I noticed were you have > to make sure you're hooked up to the correct pins, and the pullup/pulldown > settings don't seem to do anything in eQEP mode. > > On Friday, October 11, 2013 9:42:57 AM UTC-5, Giuseppe Iellamo wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Since I want to use Beaglebone black in order to perform e motor position >> controller I need to use an Encoder. >> I'm struggling with the eQep configuration. >> >> Searching other posts I found this: >> >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/encoder/beagleboard/mE_ha4zOApM/VewMCyQx37kJ >> >> In which Teknoman117 released his own version of a kernel module driver. >> >> I compiled it, and it seems to work except that the posiotion sysfs entry >> is always 0. >> >> Has anybody ever used it? >> Or Has anybaody used the eQep? >> >> I'm using a 3.8.13bone28 kernel with xenomai extensions... >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
