Calibrate shortcut

[auhopu]

I would like to use a shortcut to be able to trigger a calibration for tool changes. That way I could assign it to a keystroke on a gamepad (much easier than fiddling with a mouse). It looks like there is no command available for the MDI (as ABOUT, CLEAR, HOME etc). Would that be an easy addition?

As an alternative I also tried a custom button macro, based on the calibrate function in ProbePage.py

G53 G0 Z-2 G53 G0 X[toolprobex] y[toolprobey] G53 G0 Z[toolprobez] G91 G38.2 Z-50 F120 G1 F500 Z1 G38.2 Z-5 F30 G4 P1 %wait %global toolheight; toolheight=wz %update toolheight G53 G0 Z-2 G90

...but it seems that even though I can have multiple gcode lines in a macro or a % line in a macro, I cannot have multiple gcode lines AND % lines.

[auhopu]

Maybe a

elif cmd == "CALIBRATE":
    self.calibrate()

in Sender.py under executeCommand ?

[auhopu]

Replying to myself :D

I'm not sure whether this is the proper way, but adding this in the execute function of __main__.py worked:

                elif cmd=="CALIBRATE":
                        Page.frames["Probe:Tool"].calibrate()

I can run CALIBRATE from the command line, from a macro button and within a shortcut.

[MARIOBASZ]

I am following your progress, it can be useful for me!

[auhopu]

Ok, let me explain the reason behind this.

I run bCNC on a RPi and use a wireless Logitech keyboard. It has an integrated touch pad to be used as a mouse, which makes it compact and convenient. However, the touchpad is very sensitive and the beginning of a drag gesture -if touched fast/hard- can be misinterpreted as a tap, i.e. a left click. Hell can break loose if this tap happens to be on the wrong interface button at the wrong time.

For this reason I heavily rely on shortcuts that I have mapped to keystrokes on a gamepad. These buttons are more tactile, cannot trigger accidentally and can be pressed without even looking (the same way you don't look at your fingers when playing a game).

Up till now I had a dedicated button for probing. The button was mapped to f7 and the f7 shortcut contained the probing macro.

I recently got a tool length sensor. Now instead of re-zeroing with every tool change, I can zero & calibrate once and let all subsequent tool changes probe automatically with the tool setter. This is a huge time saver.

Since the touch plate I use for zeroing is NO and the tool setter is NC, I need to use the former in the beginning of a setup, then switch to the latter and start running the job.

So ideally, I would like to have a single button to:

(run the probe macro) %msg PLUG TOOL SETTER M0 (run the calibrate macro)

I have managed to assign all of the above to a macro button and it woks fine, except it is not shortcut-able (I have to use the touchpad). This is a known issue (#620 )

I have managed to assign it in two halfs to two shortcuts, but not the whole thing. I press one physical button for probing, switch sensors, press another button for calibrate... then run the job. It seems I ran into another limitation there. A shortcut can contain a gcode macro, a command (CALIBRATE in this case), but not both at the same time.