Pause and Open Cover on STAR Venus 6

Hamilton (Venus)
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Hi,

We have a platform with a STAR working under Venus 6. Our issue is rather simple, we have the risk machine options and the cover monitoring enabled on that platform. When we hit pause, it doesn’t open the cover automatically and there isn’t any dialog box giving the option to open cover (as it is with Vantage). Our local Hamilton engineer told us that we need to wait for a next software version, does anyone here now how we can counter that ?

We’ve already tried to play with the Venus 6 API, unfortunately there is no option to send firmware commands or commands.

Thank you,

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The best way is waiting the update of venus, but there are still other ways to do it. These ways are not recommended, for they are too complex, but I think there are possible.

  • write and add a view into run control if legacy run control was used.
  • write COM object and moitor paused event of ML_STAR
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Thank you,

I was afraid of that. I’ve done something with a program monitoring the state of the robot, but I’d love a more native solution.
Guess we’ll wait.