There is no need for grizzly to have usb mode

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(archived) Control System Next

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Open ArcaneNibble opened 10 years ago

ArcaneNibble commented 10 years ago

set timeout to 0 to disable timeout

cduck commented 10 years ago

What is wrong with the timeout? Shouldn't the motors stop if the controller crashes or the wires get unplugged?

ArcaneNibble commented 10 years ago

Because USB users might not want to keep poking the grizzly (to save USB bandwidth?)

There are two issues here:

Alternate control sources don't tickle the timeout, only I2C does. This should be fixed for both USB and RS485.
The existence of a special "USB mode" flag that overrides the timeout is unnecessary as setting timeout to 0 will disable the timeout.

cduck commented 10 years ago

OK. The smart sensor protocol already does the first bullet.