I have a simple question about Polyscope X that I need some help with.
If the robot is running in Automatic mode, and we don’t want the end customer to have the password (because many different people are using the robot and we’ve seen cases where they start modifying the program), how do people normally get access to the I/O tab?
The reason is that operators sometimes need to manually turn off the vacuum for the gripper, for example if the robot tries to pick up a bad box or in other similar situations.
We have the same issue. Maybe UR will implement this so that we can choose to either display the I/O tab or not when in automatic mode. Maybe until then, it can be possible to use a boolean configuration variable in the operator screen? They would still need to start the program, but you can add an if-statement in the before-start that just turns off the vacuum gripper and halts the program if the configuration variable is true.
The Sidebar, as well as the Operator screen would retain when PolyScope X turns into Automatic mode, therefore a simple URCapx that implements a contribution in either component would help.
Check out this sample it implements a feature of permitting me to read/set DOs.