cycle timer not working

copying the cycle timer John (hardinge),

displayed but does not work stays at zero when I run the program?

that can be bad.

in HAL:

loadrt time


addf time.0 servo-thread


in post-gui.hal

net run-status => time.0.start
net cycle-seconds pyvcp.time-seconds <= time.0.seconds
net cycle-minutes pyvcp.time-minutes <= time.0.minutes
net cycle-hours pyvcp.time-hours <= time.0.hours


in xml file

-<hbox>
-<label>
<text>"Cycle Time"</text>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
</label>
-<u32> <halpin>"time-hours"</halpin>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
<format>"2d"</format>
</u32>
-<label>
<text>":"</text>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
</label>
-<u32>
<halpin>"time-minutes"</halpin>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
<format>"2d"</format>
</u32>
-<label>
<text>":"</text>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
</label>
-<u32>
<halpin>"time-seconds"</halpin>
<font>("Helvetica",14)</font>
<format>"2d"</format>
</u32>
</hbox>

You must connect run-status signal to something.
Is it connected to something?

In these cases running halmeter to do your own investigating helps a lot.
You can narrow the problrm down that way - and it makes it easier for us to help you.

Chris M

the documentation over here could be improved
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/man/man9/time.9.html
the correct pin name is halui.program.is-running

"net run-status halui.program.is-running"

I'm not sure how one is supposed to reset the "time" component. Or is it just meant to count the sum total hours the machine has been running (since the start of linuxcnc). I would guess it resets when you restart linuxcnc or reboot the machine.

BigJohnT wrote:

I thought the documentation was 1000 times better than most man pages as it actually has some what needs to be improved?

this page
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/man/man9/time.9.html
says "halui.is-running", but the correct pin name is "halui.program.is-running"

I'm not sure what "Time Converter" refers to. What is converted to what? "Timer" is perhaps better.

Does the time component run forever once it has seen true on the start-pin? Or does it stop when the start-pin goes false?
If the latter, I suggest "enable" as a better name for the pin that is now named "start"

Also the man-page is somewhat inconsistent in that at the top it suggests "halui.program.is-running" as a source for start.
But further down what is actually used in the example is halui.program.is-idle followed by a not-component.

I would be happy to contribute to the manuals/man-pages, but I would need clear and simple instructions how it's done (e.g. on the wiki). Last time I tried I apparently patched the wrong branch and my patch got lost.

John,

works perfect.

only one detail in loadrt not.0 think should go loadrt not count = N

Thanks John my machine is producing parts I will upload videos and photos so you can see how it looks