Machinekit Documentation

HAL Component — CONSTANT

INSTANTIABLE COMPONENTS — General

All instantiable components can be loaded in two manners

Using loadrt with or without count= | names= parameters as per legacy components
Using newinst, which names the instance and allows further parameters and arguments
primarily pincount= which can set the number of pins created for that instance (where applicable)

NAME

constant — Use a parameter to set the value of a pin

SYNOPSIS

constant

USAGE SYNOPSIS

loadrt constant
OR
newinst constant <newinstname> [ pincount=N | iprefix=prefix ] [instanceparamX=X | argX=X ]

( args in [ ] denote possible args and parameters, may not be used in all components )

FUNCTIONS

constant.N.funct ( OR <newinstname>.funct (requires a floating-point thread) )

PINS

constant.N.out float out ( OR <newinstname>.out float out )

constant.N.value float io ( OR <newinstname>.value float io )

LICENCE

GPL