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My router is working perfectly with an old Dell Optiplex PMDX122 on onboard parallel port.

I wanted to get a new little solid state computer working that does not have parallel port. I have a Pokeys of the type that connects to the BOB with a DB25 connector. I had tried using it in the past with the XP computer and was never able to get it working.

I though I could start over with a new computer new Pokeys software just downloaded etc. I have spent most of the day trying to get things to work. There are so many bugs I think the thing may be defective but appreciate any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong or ???

How can I be sure I have the latest software that will work with win 10?

A list of problems will follow but first I want to ask what the right way to configure the Pokeys is? There is access to the configuration via config and then config plugins and also "plugin control" both bring up the same dialog but it seems that config and then config plugins fucks thing up more than the other route.

The estop function seems totally screwed up. I have tried inverting and not inverting the input. I have a normally closed switch so it seems it should not be inverted. Checking or not checking the inverted checkbox does not seem to change anything. It seems to be stuck on inverted because I have to hold the estop switch in the open position to be able to reset. After i reset i can let the switch slose and it does not (although some times it does) trigger an estop.

I can not choose a function for + limit switches 12 and 13? i can choose functions for - limit on all three switches 11 12 and 13 but if i select a function for + limit on 12 or 13, mach3 crashes with an unrecoverable error.

i have switch 1 which operates the relay on the pmdx board set for spindle control. i can turn it on with M3 but can't turn it off. once in a while the spindle off button on the screen will turn off the relay but this is only once in a while. I have monitored the output 1 status in the diag screen and it goes on and off as it always has using the pmdx alone with parallel port. Using the Pokeys the status toggles with the screen button or with M3 M5 but the relay almost never goes off. it does go off randomly for no apparent reason.

several times when loading mach3 (i left the option to ask which device to use each time) the Pokeys is not available as an option. Unplugging the USB plug and plugging it back in and starting mach3 again usually restores the option.

I have read the pokeys manual over and over and can not find anything i am doing wrong. other than the spindle, i am able to jog and the shared limit switches do work even though i can not configure 2 of the + direction ones. I believe that i am able to control other outputs on pins 14 and 16 reliably. I could probably add another relay of my own and operate the spindle with something other than pin one so if that were the only issue that can't be fixed well ???

however the estop problem is a show stopper.

i sort of remember that there was a standalone utility for configuration that i had used in the past but do not see it in the current download??

is it better to edit the xml file and if so, which one? there seem to be multiple copies in different places.? the file is quite large and it would be easy to mess it up. is there a guide to the common setting and where they are and how to edit settings?

should i just give up on this and get something else?? i also tried a CNC100 something or other a long time ago and never had much luck with that. I think I threw it away so as to not be tempted to waste more time.

i also got a thing from Amazn that i think came from Sain Smart that wasted a day. I struggled through the terrible documentation to finally get everything "working" but even though everything turned on and off etc. it went absolutely nuts in the middle of running a program. just decided to move random amounts. jogging tests worked fine but running a program it was totally fucked up. also motion at certain speeds was very jerky.