Support for Touch Screen Monitors
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Yes for sure, we will be releasing a test release software version for user feedback in about 2-3 weeks time.
tech-3d-cnc
Tech 3D CNC
Really looking forward to this release.
Glad you guys are taking your time to get it right. There's a lot to consider when moving to touch screen control.
Glad you guys are taking your time to get it right. There's a lot to consider when moving to touch screen control.
Yes touch will require a lot of things to change on the screen, in the initial release it will only be first getting the touch drivers to work to get feedback from users on how the drivers work with their screens, later we will be doing updates to GUI, so right now it will be mix of mouse and touch.
simonrafferty
SimonRafferty
I don't know if it's useful, but I previously used this https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.9/source/drivers/input/touchscreen/usbtouchscreen.c
to write a simple (single touch) driver for a piece of hardware. Although it's not exhaustive, it seems to cover most likely screens.
You can extract absolute X & Y coordinates plus a boolean for a confirmed touch event.
I imagine your current mouse driver just increments or decrements a counter for X & Y? Setting the counter value to the absolute X & Y values should be sufficient initially anyway just to use the touchscreen as a mouse replacement.
Of course there are much cooler things you can do with multi-touch and by reading pressure - but I doubt they are all that useful in this context.
to write a simple (single touch) driver for a piece of hardware. Although it's not exhaustive, it seems to cover most likely screens.
You can extract absolute X & Y coordinates plus a boolean for a confirmed touch event.
I imagine your current mouse driver just increments or decrements a counter for X & Y? Setting the counter value to the absolute X & Y values should be sufficient initially anyway just to use the touchscreen as a mouse replacement.
Of course there are much cooler things you can do with multi-touch and by reading pressure - but I doubt they are all that useful in this context.
Thanks for the info but that is for a Linux system, as we dont run any OS on MASSO, any of that standard code will not work.
simonrafferty
SimonRafferty
I didn't imagine that the code would run on your system. However, the hardest part of writing any device driver is obtaining & trawling through all the protocol specifications for the devices to find out how they individually communicate with the host.
The take-away from this code are the device classes, identifiers and packet structure for each type of screen. Whoever wrote this did all the heavy lifting. To give your system, wide compatibility with different vendors touchscreens, you can use the same structure if not the actual code.
Achieving wide compatibility with touchscreens is hard. This makes it easy regardless of what processor you are running on.
The take-away from this code are the device classes, identifiers and packet structure for each type of screen. Whoever wrote this did all the heavy lifting. To give your system, wide compatibility with different vendors touchscreens, you can use the same structure if not the actual code.
Achieving wide compatibility with touchscreens is hard. This makes it easy regardless of what processor you are running on.
Thanks for that but we already have the touch working on the controller, its just that we have not been able to complete it due to some other priority developments.
ezzupturbo
Ezzupturbo
What monitor touch controller are you using to trial touch so we can start to buy Monitors ready for the update.
Disregard found the video ?
Disregard found the video ?
We are using the EYOYO 15" Touchscreen from ebay: https://www.ebay.com.au/p/EYOYO-15-...m=272626471039&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982
at this stage the only screens that are supported are displayed in the supported list https://www.masso.com.au/docs/masso-cnc-controller-documentation/touch-screen-interface/
Please i find this open frame touch screan monitor on china store i seems the same as
the monitor ichawk screen K120TC DUV2 mentioned in your forum .
this is the 15 inch one . please do you think this 15inch will work with your masso cnc controller.
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best regards
the monitor ichawk screen K120TC DUV2 mentioned in your forum .
this is the 15 inch one . please do you think this 15inch will work with your masso cnc controller.
165.99US $ |K150tc-duv-1/15" Inch Open Frame Touch Monitor/15" Embedded Metal Case Touch Display/15" 1024x768 Power On Boot Touch Lcd Screen - Lcd Monitors - AliExpress
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best regards
please search the forums I think we saw another client who has confirmed that this screen already works with MASSO.
ezzupturbo
Ezzupturbo
I have a ebay 17" and touch works perfect
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thanks for sharing the info @ezzupturbo
Just to add to the info.
I bought a 17" monitor from newegg that works just fine. I've seen this 1703M model listed under numerous manufacturers/vendors.
https://www.newegg.com/p/2NY-0049-00004?Item=9SIAJBU8KX5334&Tpk=9SIAJBU8KX5334
I bought a 17" monitor from newegg that works just fine. I've seen this 1703M model listed under numerous manufacturers/vendors.
https://www.newegg.com/p/2NY-0049-00004?Item=9SIAJBU8KX5334&Tpk=9SIAJBU8KX5334
For all of us on the other side of the pond. Is this the same monitor?
Steve
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extranormal
ExtraNormal
Hello,
I purchased the recommended Eyoyo 15" screen and couldn't get the touch feature to work. I tried all combinations of restarting, powering up, different USB ports, plugging USB after or before power up etc. I returned it and am now trying a 10" version by the same company MODEL# EM10A. Again I tried all combinations of restarting, powering up, different USB ports, plugging USB after or before power up etc. This touch screen model specifically said it was "driver-free" and would work with Windows 7, 8, 10, Android, Linux and Rasberry Pi controllers. So far, I am still not able to get it the touch feature to work. Can anyone give me any ideas of what else I could try? The VGA signal is working great, it's the serial/ touch signal that isn't registering with the controller. Any workarounds or creative hacks are welcomed!
I purchased the recommended Eyoyo 15" screen and couldn't get the touch feature to work. I tried all combinations of restarting, powering up, different USB ports, plugging USB after or before power up etc. I returned it and am now trying a 10" version by the same company MODEL# EM10A. Again I tried all combinations of restarting, powering up, different USB ports, plugging USB after or before power up etc. This touch screen model specifically said it was "driver-free" and would work with Windows 7, 8, 10, Android, Linux and Rasberry Pi controllers. So far, I am still not able to get it the touch feature to work. Can anyone give me any ideas of what else I could try? The VGA signal is working great, it's the serial/ touch signal that isn't registering with the controller. Any workarounds or creative hacks are welcomed!
