My joystick has worked normally for a couple of years, but now when I first boot up my machine (BB controller), it works normally then goes dead after I run a program. The gamepad shows that it is still connected to the USB stick (two upper blue lights), and the machine reacts normally to G-code input from the MDI and jog commands from the display. I’m still on V1.0.9. Anyone else have the problem?
Well, it happened again today. Jogged around with the joystick, ran a cut, the joystick was dead. Tried unplugging/plugging the USB stick, no joy. Plugged it into a slot on my USB expander, voila! The expander is (obviously) plugged into my BB controller. No clue, but I’m a happy camper.
Well, fools rush in, etc. The problem is back, and changing the slots does nothing. I’ve asked support for their best guess, and I’ll update this as I go.
As I feared, support says “new joypad”. It’s been ordered. As a test, I updated from v1.0.9 to v1.6.6, made no difference. I’ll update when the new joypad arrives