Maho MH800e Retrofit Project

I have recently set out (over a year ago) to retrofit my mh800e with linux cnc to make it more user friendly and capable. I had some hurdles with confusion on the mesa cards I am using but I was finally able to make some headway and now have control over the outputs. now I am trying to figure out the mh400e_gearbox program that rotary smp was involved with. if I can figure that out I think I will have a fully functional machine! after I wire everything that is...

here is my debug information
Note: Using POSIX realtime
./my_LinuxCNC_machine.hal:84: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-in' does not exist
4093
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
RTAPI_PCI: Unmapped 65536 bytes at 0x7f2494089000
Note: Using POSIX realtime

 

When LinuxCNC added the feature to support multiple spindles, the spindle pin names changed.

for example:

motion.spindle-speed-in

becomes

spindle.0.speed-in
 

Noted, that was easy enough to change. I noticed my config had said joint in many places over the word axis. was I wrong to change it all to say axis? new debug text

Note: Using POSIX realtime
./my_LinuxCNC_machine.hal:147: Ini variable '[AXIS_0]P' not found.
5235
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
RTAPI_PCI: Unmapped 65536 bytes at 0x7f09118a1000
Note: Using POSIX realtime

Cooped-Up wrote:

was I wrong to change it all to say axis?
./my_LinuxCNC_machine.hal:147: Ini variable '[AXIS_0]P' not found.

Yes, you are wrong, as proven by the error, AXIS_0 P does not exist, but JOINT_0 P should.
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I deleted my reply, twice, as i can not fathom why...
It is a huge machine with several hundreds of KG of moving mass that can easily break you like a twig, yet you allow yourself to change things you do not understand that will ultimately be controlling that machine!!!
Read, ask, do NOT assume.

copy that, I changed it on the premise that the hal file I am referencing has the axis part and that was the only difference. I thought I screwed something up in the config as I recall something about selecting joints over axis. I will change this back. sometimes I overthink thing, with the speed at which you respond I am much better to just ask haha. feel free at any point to call me an idiot, I dont mind

okay all the axis are now back to joints. well I changed the ones i copied to joints as they were originally just axis. now I am having this error I am looking into

Note: Using POSIX realtime
./my_LinuxCNC_machine.hal:326: Pin 'halui.jog.0.plus' does not exist
8826
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
RTAPI_PCI: Unmapped 65536 bytes at 0x7ff805e99000
Note: Using POSIX realtime