Hey peeps

I'm facing a challenge with the Adafriut 9685 PWM board

I've followed the guide here and I'm able to control multiple servos through Python via I2C

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16-channel-servo-driver-with-raspbe…

FWIW, here's a video showing that I'm able to control multiple servos via I2C directly through Python outside of MRL with the PCA9685 driver board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8E8wOlG3FI

 

 

I've then followed the MRL instructions here:

I've used the script here

With the MRL instructions I'm not getting any servo movement when using the MRL servo GUI

Any thoughts?

 

 

 

 

Acapulco Rolf

7 years 10 months ago

Update:

I notice in the MRL debug log output that I see the following when I attach Adafruit16CServoDriver service to the Raspi service:
 
Note the line: 
16:40:10.455 [gui_outbox_0] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - no static route for gui.getState 
 
This is what I see in the MRL GUI:
 
MRL GUI
 
 
 
16:40:10.430 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - msg [msg gui.send --> AdaFruit16C.setController(RasPi,1,0x40) - 1483202410430]
16:40:10.432 [gui_outbox_0] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - AdaFruit16C configured to RELAY 
16:40:10.433 [gui_outbox_0] DEBUG org.myrobotlab.framework.Inbox - AdaFruit16C.msgBox + 1 = 1
16:40:10.435 [AdaFruit16C] DEBUG org.myrobotlab.framework.Inbox - AdaFruit16C.msgBox -1 0
16:40:10.436 [AdaFruit16C] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Service - --invoking AdaFruit16C.setController(RasPi,1,0x40) 1483202410430 --
16:40:10.437 [AdaFruit16C] INFO  o.m.service.Adafruit16CServoDriver - AdaFruit16C setController RasPi
16:40:10.442 [AdaFruit16C] INFO  org.myrobotlab.service.RasPi - Created device for AdaFruit16C with busAddress 1 deviceaddress 64 key 1.64
16:40:10.444 [AdaFruit16C] INFO  o.m.service.Adafruit16CServoDriver - Creating device on bus: 1 address 0x40
16:40:10.446 [AdaFruit16C] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - msg [msg AdaFruit16C.publishState --> null.publishState(Adafruit16CServoDriver) - 1483202410446]
16:40:10.448 [AdaFruit16C_outbox_0] DEBUG org.myrobotlab.framework.Inbox - gui.msgBox + 1 = 1
16:40:10.450 [gui] DEBUG org.myrobotlab.framework.Inbox - gui.msgBox -1 0
16:40:10.450 [AdaFruit16C] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - msg [msg AdaFruit16C.setController --> null.setController(true) - 1483202410450]
16:40:10.451 [gui] INFO  o.m.c.Adafruit16CServoDriverGUI - getState invoked
16:40:10.452 [AdaFruit16C_outbox_0] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - no static route for AdaFruit16C.setController 
16:40:10.453 [gui] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - msg [msg gui.getState --> null.getState() - 1483202410453]
16:40:10.455 [gui_outbox_0] DEBUG c.myrobotlab.framework.Outbox - no static route for gui.getState 
 
 

By way of an update for anybody that might read this post

Reverting to MRL version 1723 solved the issue for me

The good MRL dev peeps are on it :)

Thanks Grog, Mats, Kwatters for the guidance

 

 

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