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15 Dec 2020 16:37 #192052 by chris@cnc
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I would like to write a module for a mist extraction system that can also be used for interval control. At the moment I'm still helping myself with a shell script. But I would like to implement it. Unfortunately I couldn't find any examples of a linuxcnc module and my knowledge of C is minimal. Maybe someone can help.
The module must have 3 inputs.
Button 1 on -> output true
Button 2 on -> variable (spindel.enable) -> output true
Button 3 on -> variable (timer.off) -> output false
Variable (timer.on) -> output true
all buttons off -> output false
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15 Dec 2020 17:22 #192057 by Todd Zuercher
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Not knowing exactly what you're trying to accomplish. I would have thought that you could do this using existing Hal logic components. Such as a combination of Lut5 and Timedelay .

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15 Dec 2020 17:35 - 15 Dec 2020 18:12 #192058 by chris@cnc
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yes thanks the first two bits are easy too. The problem is to create an interval with timedelay. I failed of it. The third button should switch the output true, for example 30s, then wait 5 minutes and then switch it on again for 30s.
My shell script looks like this.

halcmd unlinkp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-01
while true
do
halcmd setp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-01 1
sleep 30

halcmd setp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-01 0
sleep 300
done

exit 0
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15 Dec 2020 19:25 - 16 Dec 2020 11:38 #192067 by chris@cnc
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my first draft full of bugs. but i'm a mechanic. I hope you can see what I want.
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15 Dec 2020 21:59 - 15 Dec 2020 22:39 #192077 by Grotius
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Hi Chris.

Good luck !

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16 Dec 2020 01:17 #192089 by rodw
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my first draft full of bugs. but i'm a mechanic. I hope you can see what I want.
component mist "3 way input mist modul";
pin in bit in0 "Manual mist on";
pin in bit in1 "mist on if Programm run";
pin in bit in2 "mist intervall on if Programm run";
pin in bit in3 "On Timer default 30s"  ;
pin in bit in4 "Off Timer default 300s";
pin out bit out0;
function _;
description """
Modul with 3 Input and possibility of interval out
1. input.0 true -> output true
2. input.1 true -> Variable halui.program.run true -> output true
2. input.2 true -> timer.0 true && timer.1 false -> output true""";
license "GPL";
;;

FUNCTION(_){
    if ( in0 ) 
		{ out0 = 1; }
		
	else if ( in1 && halui.program.run  ) 
		{ out0 = 1; }
 
	else if (in2 && halui.program.run  ) 
		{ while true
			out0 = 1; 
			sleep(in3);
			out = 0;
			sleep(in4);
			}
	
	 else 
		{ out0 = 0;  }
}


You can't use sleep or while in a component becasue you are in a loop that is called 1000 times a second. But you can count invocations or you can read the time on start and add fperiod to it every time though the component.
Often its good to think in terms of states and create a numbered list of states with enum and write a state machine with a switch statement.

Its good to see grotius helping. I helped him a lot when he was learning C so now he's paying it forward!
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16 Dec 2020 11:20 - 16 Dec 2020 11:31 #192122 by chris@cnc
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Hi Chris.
Good luck !


Many Thanks Grotius. I can feel and see your smile ...:)
I will try it in the next few days

Many Thanks rodw that you point out that my idea will not work. I had not understand what grotius written.
Could you send me a link for some code examples. One big question is how input halui.program.run or is not possible to input nc signals?
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16 Dec 2020 12:06 #192127 by rodw
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The best way to learn programming is to read code. All of the standard code for components lives on git here
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/src/hal/components
Pick one of the simple components like or2 or and2 that you use and understand, then review the source for it.

The idea behind hal is that each component is stand alone iits own compartment so if it fails, everything else still works. So the only way to use another pin such as halui.program-on is to create a new in pin of the same data type and use a hal net statement to connect it to the in pin.

There are also many ways to skin a cat in C. Grotius used a hal variable called period to count milliseconds and convert it to seconds for your timer. There is another implicit varuable called fperiod which counts in seconds so I would probably do it like this because we are already using floating point numbers.
// Timer
totalnsec += fperiod;

where using += is shorthand for totalnsec = totalnsec + fperiod;
Its cleaner and easier to read.

floating point numbers are much bigger and take more processing overhead to work with so we only use them when we have to but that is probably a hangover from an earlier era where PC's did not have the grunt they do today. But think of that if you are working with an arduino.
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16 Dec 2020 19:32 #192160 by chris@cnc
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For my first lesson not so bad. Modul is working and timer is one include? May i can count them
with original timer example i got error
mist.comp: In function ‘_’:
mist.comp:71:12: error: invalid storage class for function ‘__comp_get_data_size’
mist.comp:71:1: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input
mist.comp: At top level:
mist.c:45:12: warning: ‘__comp_get_data_size’ used but never defined
 static int __comp_get_data_size(void);
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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16 Dec 2020 20:31 #192183 by rodw
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I think in your first example you had a data type error becasue you had a bit as the input pin (which can only be 0 or 1) and you were using it to set it to 300. That likely explains the error messages.

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