Re: Newby question about Home switches pin assignment

["Hugues Belanger" <hbelanger-at-701.com>]

That is very strange, why would EMC be coded in this way ? most driver board
will use separate home switch and a common limit switch. I hope that future
version of EMC will allow you to just specify these parameters in EMC.ini

thanks for you help
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Newby question about Home switches pin assignment


>
>
> Hi Hugues
>
> Yes, But....
>
>  These changes will require some hacking to one of the ext***mot.c sources
> depending on which motion controller you are using. The limit switches are
> all read in by :-
> steppermod and freqmod use extsmmot.c
> smdromot uses extsmdromot.c
> stgmot uses extstgmot.c
> All of these can be found in src/emcmot.
>
> The step/direction pins are a little more involved, as these are hard
coded
> in emcmot.c and emcstepmot.c. Search for smController() and freqfunc() to
see
> how it is done.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Friday 25 January 2002 3:29 pm, Hugues Belanger wrote:
> > Can anybody tell me if the home switch pin assignment can be modified
> > emc.ini to match with my homemade controller.
> >
> > pin 10 --> Limit switches
> > pin 11 --> X home
> > pin 12 --> Y home
> > pin 13 --> Z home
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Hugues
>