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When I run this example Arduino sketch, after modifying the pin numbers and serial speeds for my setup, all the robot does is try to hold the current position of motor 1. The motors never turn. This seems odd because PacketSerialEncoderSpeedAccelDistance.ino seems to work fine.

yes, I am using to turn the motors. Using works to stop them without it trying to hold the position. Thank you.

RobotClaw is still using as much as an amp to keep my motors at zero speed when the bot is just sitting still. I need a command to shut the motor control completely off after the bot has stopped so I don’t kill my battery life. I notice the All Stop button in the IonMotion software does this. You sl...

it is relative to how many clicks/turn your encoders have.

Working much better so far. I haven't completely regression tested but so far it is looking very good. Thanks!

Please provide your code. Also what do you mean by valid(I assume bit 8, 0x80, of the status byte). If so that bit is always set on xmega based Roboclaws. On older(much much much older) Roboclaws we had separate quadrature decoders so we had to know if the decoder was working correctly or not. It i...

I always get zero for Status and Valid when I call for an encoder value on channel one using two-way serial with arduino. Channel two works fine with the same encoder hooked to it. I can see channel one increment and decrement the value for encoder one channel but Status and Valid are always zero wh...

Since the hardware UART library works so much better than the software serial library, i think you should support the hardware library - in other words you should have a link to it and you should clean up the one that I linked to.

If you are using our arduino libraries and you specify the hardware serial pins when initializing the class the library should use the hardware serial arduino library to talk to the serial port automatically. I used the hardware serial pins and it didn't work for me. Had to use that hardware librar...

I couldn't get the software serial to work well either. So I switched to a library that uses hardware serial and it works:

http://forums.basicmicro.co.uk/topic997 ... 048518b33f