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laurb9 / StepperDriver

Arduino library for A4988, DRV8825, DRV8834, DRV8880 and generic two-pin (DIR/STEP) stepper motor drivers
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get current position #101

Closed sharkyenergy closed 3 years ago

sharkyenergy commented 3 years ago

Hello! thanks for the library!

Is there a way to get the current motor position? (while standing still and while moving..)

Ideally as absolute value relative to the starting point...

Thank you

laurb9 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

The method getStepsCompleted can be used to get the number of steps completed since the move started. This is of course useful mostly in non-blocking mode.

Houri93 commented 3 years ago

I have just had to implement this, modify the library so a long number is set to 0 at the constructor, named it currentPosition. within nextAction, check if dir_state is positive, add one to currentPosition, otherwise subtract one.

The library implements relative movements of the current location using startMove, I have implemented a method startMoveToPosition which has a long pos input parameter and simply does startMove(pos - currentPos).

also implemented get and set methods for currentPos.

this is done in BasicStepperDriver file.

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