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Motor GUI

Motor GUI is Source Robotics' browser tool for its motor drivers, and so for the SSG-48 and MSG grippers, whose driver sits inside. It reaches the hardware through the browser's serial port access: nothing to install, a Chromium-based browser and the CANvas USB-to-CAN adapter.

On PAROL6 the control board drives the gripper, so Motor GUI is not part of everyday use. It is the tool when you:

  • update the gripper's firmware, over CAN, from the driver's GitHub releases, through the gripper's bootloader;
  • set up a self-built gripper, or restore a gripper's configuration: the setup page has presets for the SSG-48 and for the three MSG steppers. They are applied over UART, with the USB-to-serial adapter on the driver's UART port, not over CAN. A preset writes CAN ID 6, the PAR6 gripper's: change it to 0 before you apply it for PAROL6;
  • test a gripper off the robot: calibrate, open and close it, watch its position and current, run a cycle test, in the gripper panel.

The control board polls the gripper continuously while the robot is on, so use Motor GUI with the gripper off the robot's bus: the gripper on the CANvas adapter's CAN terminals and on a 24 V supply. Then follow the gripper manual's Motor GUI page, SSG-48 or MSG; the firmware update is on their Firmware pages (SSG-48, MSG).

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