Hi Marcus! On 29.11.2014 09:29, Marcus Bowman wrote: > Good Morning All, > > I have a Contour Shuttle Pro v2 and I use it with XP and Mach3 on one of my > machines. Works jolly well too. Extremely good as a flat-lying pendant., and > has, as far as I'm concerned, a very intuitive feel. > But I run LinuxCNC mostly (swappable drives and other machines and computers) > and I miss the Shuttle. > > Does anyone have any info about how (or if) I can get the Shuttle to work > with LinuxCNC? I'm running v2.5 on this particular machine, under Ubuntu 10.4 > (sticking with what's working, on a critical machine) but I can easily > upgrade, and I have one other computer running Ubuntu and 2.6, and one I have > just built and am about to commission, which will be running the latest > version under Wheezy. If I can get the Shuttle working under the most current > setup, I can upgrade the others shortly. > > I have seen some comments on other bulletin boards suggesting no drivers are > available; and Contour themselves don't seem to do a Linux driver, but I > wonder if there are any sources of drivers or if there is a way to get it > working? Contour's comments on one BB suggest there is a problem because its > a USB device, but I can't see why that should be an insurmountable problem. > > Grateful for any help.
I'm not aware of support for the ShuttlePRO, but there is a HAL component readily available for the ShuttleXpress (src/hal/user_comps/shuttlexpress.c). So I suppose that it should be possible without too much effort to make it work with the ShuttlePRO, as they probably have a very similar interface. The low-level USB stuff for the ShuttleXpress is handled by the standard USB HID driver (since it is nothing more than a fancy input device, it registers itself as such a thing). You could check the output of dmesg right after you connect the device and also the output of lsusb. Cheers, Philipp
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