XHC-HB04 wireless MPG pendant HAL module

Hello Andy
I unplugged the usb joystick to use the pendant! That should be it. I will test and report back..... thank you!

Hello Cncbasher
I did everything at the linux PC without using MSDOS. So I think it is more related to unplugging the joystick....
Thank you for your reply!
Rodolfo

I plugged back the usb joystick and the problem is gone.

I generated a file /etc/udev/rules.d/90-xhc.rules with the following content to get access to USB without root privileges as the guide says

SYSFS{idProduct}=="eb70", SYSFS{idVendor}=="10ce", MODE="666", OWNER="root", GROUP="users"

But the pendant is unresponsive.

I see the OK led blink but nothing works, not the buttons and not the dial. And the display shows zeroes.

I try to select an axis and jog but nothing happens.

Am I still missing something?

Do I have to install the hal file manually?

THANKS for your help!

Sincerely
Rodolfo

did you check your line endings , this will stop files loading

Comet.hal:3: Warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.

The files were never edited on a windows machine.

After CNC was working again by plugging the USB joystick,

I added

HALFILE = xhc-hb04.hal at the [HAL] section of my ini file and it started crashing again.

Now with this message:
Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
LINUXCNC_DIR=
LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=
LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR=
LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/linuxcnc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.5
LINUXCNC - 2.5.3
Machine configuration directory is '/home/probotix/emc2/configs/Comet'
Machine configuration file is 'Comet.ini'
INIFILE=/home/probotix/emc2/configs/Comet/Comet.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=emc.var
TASK=milltask
HALUI=halui
DISPLAY=axis
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Killing task linuxcncsvr, PID=1464
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
Comet.hal:3: Warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
Could not open command file 'xhc-hb04.hal'
1464
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Kernel message information:
[ 24.696297] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[ 24.696313] RTAI[hal]: <3.8.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.6-03.
[ 24.696318] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) .
[ 24.696437] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[ 24.696442] PIPELINE layers:
[ 24.696448] f8b85e20 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[ 24.696453] c085cb20 0 Linux 100
[ 24.741659] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[ 24.742307] RTAI[sched]: IMMEDIATE, MP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[ 24.742322] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = APIC/12468630(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[ 24.742333] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 1795600000 hz.
[ 24.742341] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 999 ns, resched latency = 2943 ns.
[ 24.743371] RTAI[usi]: enabled.
[ 24.808436] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[ 24.939487] config string '0x378'
[ 26.012273] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[ 26.047865] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[ 26.108953] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[ 26.208033] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[ 26.213109] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[ 26.213251] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.

Then I tried make clean
make
and make install at the source folder but it still crashes.

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP!

Rodolfo

and if I comment the halfile row in the .ini file linuxcnc runs great but the pendant does not respond.

I tried also changing the reference
loadusr -W xhc-hb04 -I xhc-hb04-layout2.ini -H
at the xhc-hb04.hal file then a make clean, make and make install but still get the same error.

Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
Comet.hal:3: Warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
Could not open command file 'xhc-hb04.hal'

open file and use save as ... and change lineending to unix/linux

I got rid of the DOS style line endings.

Also put the hal file at the ini folder and the layout.ini file there as well.

now linuxcnc crashes and shows this:

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
LINUXCNC_DIR=
LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=
LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR=
LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/linuxcnc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.5
LINUXCNC - 2.5.3
Machine configuration directory is '/home/probotix/emc2/configs/Comet'
Machine configuration file is 'Comet.ini'
INIFILE=/home/probotix/emc2/configs/Comet/Comet.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=emc.var
TASK=milltask
HALUI=halui
DISPLAY=axis
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Killing task linuxcncsvr, PID=2271
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
xhc-hb04.hal:23: Pin 'axis.3.jog-enable' does not exist
2271
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Kernel message information:
[ 423.960726] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[ 423.960743] RTAI[hal]: <3.8.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.6-03.
[ 423.960750] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) .
[ 423.960874] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[ 423.960881] PIPELINE layers:
[ 423.960888] fa970e20 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[ 423.960894] c085cb20 0 Linux 100
[ 424.006042] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[ 424.006756] RTAI[sched]: IMMEDIATE, MP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[ 424.006771] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = APIC/12468630(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[ 424.006781] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 1795472000 hz.
[ 424.006789] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 999 ns, resched latency = 2944 ns.
[ 424.006923] RTAI[usi]: enabled.
[ 424.075597] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[ 424.198849] config string '0x378'
[ 427.290809] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[ 427.325905] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[ 427.389453] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[ 427.488026] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[ 427.492533] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[ 427.492670] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.