On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:54 -0400, "Holly Gates" <hga...@1366tech.com>
wrote:
> Hi there, I've set up a spray coating robot using motion stuff I
> bought off ebay and EMC as the controller. We've been using it happily
> for a couple months now, but it would definitely be better if we had
> dedicated panel buttons for START and CANCEL rather than having to use
> the mouse to click the little start arrow in the AXIS interface.
> 
> My hardware interface is through the parallel port and it has plenty
> of extra pins I could use for these two buttons. I used stepconf to
> set up the interface, which was very convenient. As a consequence
> though I'm not too knowledgeable about how to go beyond this easy type
> of setup. I've read through the documentation, but I guess I'm hoping
> someone could point me to the easiest way to implement this.

This is exactly what "halui" is designed for.  I'd explain in more
detail, but I'm pressed for time.  Read that part of the manual and
you'll probably get the idea, or ask for more help.

Regards,

John Kasunich
-- 
  John Kasunich
  jmkasun...@fastmail.fm


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