HB04 Pendant

Antonio_Hernandez · March 25, 2021, 11:51pm

Hello there !
I have read the docs on the Smoothieware web site and I still need help.

About HB04 pendant, it’s not clear for me if any model of HB04 could work with smoopi, because I saw a lot of “variants” of this model in aliexpress (multiple models contains the ‘HB04’ word including another prefix or suffix).

I want to enable this pendant, but I have some doubts related with the pendant model. So, I want to know if the model that can be seen in the picture is ‘only’ the model that can work without issues, and if it’s possible to use a different pendant model that can handle up to 6 axes…

By the other side, may be will be required to enable the second serial property on config file to be possible to use this pendant…

I will really appreciate any info related with this. Thanks in advance !

Antonio_Hernandez · March 27, 2021, 4:01pm

Sorry. I found the readme related with the pendants that can be seen here,

github.com

wolfmanjm/kivy-smoothie-host/blob/master/README-pendants.md

# Pendant README
Supported pendants are documented here.

## Pendants
There is support for a home made MPG pendant using a Teensy as a rawhid device. Also the LHB04 Mach3 pendant and the WHB04B (wired and wireless)

### General
If the pendant supports macros they can be edited in the appropriate ini file.
A Tools menu entry will be added to quickly edit the file using the built in text editor. If the file was modified it will automatically be reloaded.

### Home made
Project here...
* https://github.com/wolfmanjm/mpg-usb
* install as described there

Then you need to do the following on the rpi...

* sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
* sudo apt-get install libhidapi-libusb0 libhidapi-hidraw0
* git clone https://github.com/ahtn/python-easyhid

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My question was clarified. Thanks in advance !