Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 December 2008, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I have connected a wireless USB game pad to the dahlih. It worked - but I didn't see much of a use for it on a small three axis mill. All the buttons and levers were recognized and worked I was able to manipulate the machine from more

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 December 2008, John Thornton wrote: Gene, I didn't see any at wally world either. The only sell cutting egde stuff that sells at the current moment. I found mine at a game shop or office depot I can't remember... I think we have a game shop up in the mall north of Bridgeport, I'll

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Jim Combs
Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad Please respond to Enhanced Machine Controller

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Jim Combs
Sorry post to wrong group. I am involved in a robotics FIRST group at the local high school. But Re: EMC2 - I thought USB was a not desirable on the PC because it caused issues with the real time stuff (In General). This was a very nice joystick with proportional X/Y on the stick with a bunch

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, Realizing I will be corrected if I am wrong I will state this anyway. I believe we are mixing two different issues in this thread. ONE, The use of the USB interface in the real time control path TWO, The use of the USB interface in the HMI path From what I read the USB

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, Realizing I will be corrected if I am wrong I will state this anyway. I believe we are mixing two different issues in this thread. ONE, The use of the USB interface in the real time control path TWO, The use of the USB interface in the HMI path

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread John Thornton
AFAIK it has to be a PC gamepad not an Xbox one. John On 6 Dec 2008 at 17:51, Andrew Ayre wrote: This looks interesting. Does it have to be that specific Logitech gamepad or will a generic XBox (original) gamepad work? Andy John Thornton wrote: I use the game pad and wrote an article

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread John Thornton
: Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad I use the game pad and wrote an article on the steps I used to get it up and running here. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant What did you add to your .hal file use the gamepad? and which file did you add it to? John

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Len Shelton
, 2008 7:19 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller EEMC Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad When you followed the tutorial exactly did EMC work and the joystick did not work or did EMC throw an error and not load at all? If EMC loaded then go to Machine/Show HAL Configuration and see what the pin

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Dewey Garrett
I have installed a Logitech Gamepad on my machine recently. I could not get EMC to recognize it using hal_input, but it works fine using hal_joystick. I had a similar problem when I first installed Hardy and had not had a problem with Dapper. I don't remember all the details but I believe the

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
It has to be an input device supported by the Linux kernel. If the XBOX controllers are, then they should work. - Steve John Thornton wrote: AFAIK it has to be a PC gamepad not an Xbox one. -- SF.Net email is

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Len, The only thing I can think of is I did the example with 6.06... don't know if that makes a difference... If I get a chance I'll try it out on one of my 8.04 machines... John -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
Thanks Steve and John. Andy Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It has to be an input device supported by the Linux kernel. If the XBOX controllers are, then they should work. - Steve John Thornton wrote: AFAIK it has to be a PC gamepad not an Xbox one. -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread sam sokolik
Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad Thanks Steve and John. Andy Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It has to be an input device supported by the Linux kernel. If the XBOX controllers are, then they should

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread samco
has this come up? http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?A_New_Approach_For_Using_Joypads_With_EMC2 sam On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:56:15 -0700 Andrew Ayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steve and John. Andy Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It has to be an input device supported by the

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has this come up? http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?A_New_Approach_For_Using_Joypads _With_EMC2 sam On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:56:15 -0700 Andrew Ayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steve and John. Andy Stephen Wille Padnos

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I went out to Wallies tonight to get some pills and looked the electronics dept. over pretty carefully, but nothing was labeled as 'PC', just PS2-3 and XBox, with one WII thrown in for good

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Wayne Parks
Unless one can find a (gameport) gamepad on ebay (there are some) all new ones are USB and today about half are wireless. Not being an expert of EMC or Linux I'm not sure if the wireless ones would work or not.sure would be nice though not to be connected by a cord. One problem would be

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I went out to Wallies tonight to get some pills and looked the electronics dept. over pretty carefully, but nothing was labeled as 'PC', just

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-07 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, I have connected a wireless USB game pad to the dahlih. It worked - but I didn't see much of a use for it on a small three axis mill. All the buttons and levers were recognized and worked I was able to manipulate the machine from more than 100 feet away. (line of sight) It is a Saitek

[Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Len Shelton
I have installed a Logitech Gamepad on my machine recently. I could not get EMC to recognize it using hal_input, but it works fine using hal_joystick. The error was that it could not find Dual even though I confirmed it was initializing as Logitech Logitech Dual Action. I also tried using Action,

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Jeff Epler
Have you successfully used any devices with hal_input? If not, then carefully read the section PERMISSIONS AND UDEV in the hal_input manpage, and craft an appropriate rule for your device. Jeff -- SF.Net email is

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Len Shelton
, 2008 9:39 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad Have you successfully used any devices with hal_input? If not, then carefully read the section PERMISSIONS AND UDEV in the hal_input manpage, and craft an appropriate rule for your device. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread John Thornton
I use the game pad and wrote an article on the steps I used to get it up and running here. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant What did you add to your .hal file use the gamepad? and which file did you add it to? John On 6 Dec 2008 at 7:51, Len Shelton wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Andrew Ayre
This looks interesting. Does it have to be that specific Logitech gamepad or will a generic XBox (original) gamepad work? Andy John Thornton wrote: I use the game pad and wrote an article on the steps I used to get it up and running here.

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Len Shelton
Controller EEMC Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad I use the game pad and wrote an article on the steps I used to get it up and running here. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant What did you add to your .hal file use the gamepad? and which file did you add it to? John

Re: [Emc-users] Logitech Gamepad

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Len Shelton wrote: I followed that tutorial exactly. In fact, the way I got it to work was to swap out the hal_input line with the hal_joystick line from: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?HereIsHowToCheck ...and to rename the hal pins appropriately. Hal joystick works fine, but