Version 2.0

The MachineMotion Python API V2.0 aims at simplifying the interfaces to the digital input / outputs and the encoder position.

Compatibility

The Python API V2 requires MachineMotion version V1.12 or newer.

Please use mm-python-api V1.6.7 for prior version of MachineMotion software.

Interface changes

Obsoleted interfaces
- attachControlDevice
- dettachControlDevice
- readControlDevice
- writecontrolDevice
New interfaces:
- isIoExpanderAvailable(device)
- digitalRead(device, pin)
- digitalWrite(device, pin, value)
- readEncoderRealtimePosition(device)

Version 1.6.7

Date: July 16^th, 2019

Improvements:

Added support for Python3 and Python2.
Updated the REAMDME to include the new MQTT library dependency.

Version: 1.6.6

Date: July 4^th 2019

Bug Fixes:

Fix distance of movement smaller then requested on linear axis.

Improvements:

All examples import statement are now version independant.

Version: 1.6.5

Date: June 4^th 2019

Bug Fixes:

Fix Line Number mismatch with the help of the 'resend' message
Fix application hang on termination

New Features:

Support for the rotatory indexer with constants for mechanical gain.

Improvements:

Added more examples for each sensor port for the different control devices functions.
Auto reconnect on connection loss
Instead of starting a new thread each 0.1 seconds, we now start one thread at the beginning and keep it alive forever to receive messages from the server