Mega V Homing Wrong Direction and Connection Issue

[seth]

Hi All,

I just built my Mega V and everything seems to be working great except for homing. The Z homing works as expected and the XY homing does not. The X moves until the limit switch is held down but the Y moves towards the front of the machine instead of towards my limit switch at the back. I read that I can correct this by changing the $23 setting for homing direction. This seems like a great solution but when I try to alter the setting in the MillRight version of UGS I get the error message "Settings are locked. Please connection with MillRight for more information". So, I decided to try and use the general release version of UGS instead, but I can't get it to connect, it hangs at "Connecting".

1. How can I change the $23 setting in the MillRight version of UGS?
2. How can I get the general release version of UGS to connect to my CNC?

I'm a newbie so any extra explanation is appreciated! Thank you!

[bLouChip]

re. unlocking MillRight UGS, millrightcnc.proboards.com/post/25786/thread

re. general and recent release of UGS, I use V2.0.12, seems to be very stable, supports 4 axes, minor issue is that it can take 2 or 3 attempts to connect to MegaV by clicking the 'connection icon' on the tool bar.

download here: github.com/winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender/releases

[seth]

Aug 28, 2023 13:52:51 GMT bLouChip said:

re. unlocking MillRight UGS, millrightcnc.proboards.com/post/25786/thread

re. general and recent release of UGS, I use V2.0.12, seems to be very stable, supports 4 axes, minor issue is that it can take 2 or 3 attempts to connect to MegaV by clicking the 'connection icon' on the tool bar.

download here: github.com/winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender/releases

Thank you!!!

I will try it out tonight when I get off work. So if the version of UGS you recommend supports 4th axis then is there any reason to use the MillRight version at all?

[bLouChip]

Aug 29, 2023 17:24:10 GMT seth said:

Not that I'm aware.   The history of MR's version of 4 axes UGS is that it was necessary for MR to modify the then current version of UGS (in 2018 or '19) in order to get the 4 axis function to support the MegaV.  So it became a separate and stale (over time) thread of UGS, yet very functional for the MegaV.  Since then, UGS has built or adopted support for up to 6 axes. V2.0.12 is just a known stable version that I've been using for about a year. V2.0.19 is reported to have improved connection code for MegaV, I had tested a beta version to confirm that, but due to some other oddities in the beta, I reverted to V2.0.12 for the time being.