RickTaylor

Oooh ! Sounds pretty grim. Sounds like a job for Ralph Richardson this one! Thanks for the whole list.... Couldn't find it on the web. Maybe I blinked whilst I was searching. Thanks anyway Pete. cheers Rick

Peter, With regard to joystick errors reported in the EPICINFO.log file, could you tell me what error 165 signifies please ? Thanks Rick Taylor

Peter, I'm trying to get a couple of Rotaries to talk to PM MCP via EPICINFO and the MCP_xxx_VAR variables. I have set up two virtual Axes Z and Rx on what I think is windows joystick 3. It is the 4th joystick to appear in the windows list. I have added the lines MCP_HDG_VAR=3,3 and MCP_ALT_VAR=3,4 to the EPICINFO.cfg file. The values show correctly for each of the joystick axes when I calibrate them in windows. However I get no response from the PM MCP and the EpicInfo.log shows this at the end : *********************************************************** 550093 AxisAction 'MCP_HDG_VAR' actioned: J3,2, was=0014, now=0013 550093 AxisAction 'MCP_ALT_VAR' actioned: J3,3, was=0001, now=0002 550984 AxisAction 'MCP_ALT_VAR' actioned: J3,3, was=0002, now=0001 560797 Joy 3 for Axes got error 167! 560859 Joy 3 Axes okay now 0! 570500 AxisAction 'MCP_HDG_VAR' actioned: J3,2, was=0013, now=0014 570500 AxisAction 'MCP_ALT_VAR' actioned: J3,3, was=0001, now=0002 570625 AxisAction 'MCP_ALT_VAR' actioned: J3,3, was=0002, now=0001 585140 Joy 3 for Axes got error 167! 585203 Joy 3 Axes okay now 0! ********************************************************* Got any idea what's going wrong ? What is the error 167 ? Hope you can help,

Yesss !!! That's it Pete. Thanks a lot for the help. It didn't work at first as I was only reading 2 bytes, (The wrong two.) I had a look again and saw there were FOUR bytes, so I read the lot and converted B2 and B3. That gives the Standby frequency. QED ! There's some clever folk from Stoke. I went to North Staffs Poly ages ago. Cheers Rick

Hi Peter, I've been trying to read offset 311E today through a PH defined in EPICIO.cfg. This reads the Standby Nav1 freq. from FS9. I get the wrong format of data passed through into B0 and B1 though. It's reading 054 and 072 for example when I should be getting 015 and 060. Having looked at the EPIC log, I've found that the correct HI & LO frequencies are there but they are in Hex 0x15 and 0x60. This seems to conflict with PH2 that reads the bits directly. Any comments ? How can I use the PH to read the Hex values thus getting the correct frequencies ? or do I have to convert them in EPL and if so, how is this done ? Hope you can shine some light on this for us. Cheers