contour shuttle pro as EMC pendant

Hello,

I am in the process of setting up my 4 axis router in EMC/Linuxcnc. It has been setup in Mach3 for some time now and works fine. I would like to try it on Linuxcnc to do some comparison. In Mach3, I have been using a Contour Shuttle Pro for a pendant and I really like it. Can anyone tell me if I can set it up in Linuxcnc? And if so, how do I do it?

Hi

There is no stock component, see these 2 threads, not sure if they resulted in a finished item

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...oders?start=60#29440
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...s-every-x-time#29477

regards

Thanks for the reply. I saw one of those. I've been reading through a number of threads. It's kind of confusing, trying to piece the information together. It looks like someone has the Shuttle Express working. It's basically the same device with fewer buttons.

Another question, I saw this link:

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man1/shuttlexpress.1.html

Is this a predefined user function in the hal? If so, how do I use it? How do I assign the buttons? And could I add buttons to it to make the Shuttle Pro buttons all work?

m8298 wrote: Is this a predefined user function in the hal? If so, how do I use it? How do I assign the buttons? And could I add buttons to it to make the Shuttle Pro buttons all work?

What do you want the buttons to do?

Try the following in your custom.hal file.
If everything is working properly then that will make the inner shuttle wheel control the feed over-ride. (As an example)

Is that all I should need to add?? And will it work with a Shuttle Pro, as opposed to the Shuttle Express?

The way I have my Shuttle Pro setup in Mach3 is I have four of the buttons used to select an axis(XYZA), one button to turn an output on and off for a laser crosshair, one button to zero X & Y on workpiece to the laser crosshair, one button as another e-stop, one button for "run", one button for "stop", one button to zero my A axis, and one button to switch DROs from mm to IN.