Tool length sensor and touch probe with Mesa7i76e

I have made a new setup for my SyilX7 mill and it seems that I have a stupid issue for most of the cnc users, but just using my current experience, I can’t figure it out.
Can someone explain me how to load and the tools, determine workpiece origin(i assume its Touch Off) and set tool offsets (tool touch off?)
I am using probe screen along with a tool height sensor and a ruby ball touch probe.
The touch probe seems to work fine, however, no idea yet how the probe screen should deal with the tool height sensor.
I’ve checked the inputs for both of them and I can see values changing for the pins.
If I do M6 T1 G43, the linuxcnc ui freezes and in the bottom bar still says no tool.
You can check the video below, please excuse the poor quality it

Hi vmihalca,

did you ever resolve this issue with freeze at M6? I am installing Probe Screen and get everything to work except the tool change which is freezing on M6

Yes, I got it resolved. Don't remember exactly how, I think it was a problem with Z soft limits. I am just speaking from memories, I think it was something like tool change was asking the to go to a position that was out of my soft limits.

andypugh wrote:

Freeze on M6 is typically that the system has set tool-change and is waiting for tool-changed to be set when the tool change is complete.

It isn't frozen, so much as waiting to be told that the tool change is finished.

Hi Andy, thanks for the response, I am using Probe Screen, and it should do a move to the Tool change position before waiting for the tool change, however, it is not moving and there is no prompt to acknowledge a tool change

Yes is does say to comment out Manual tool change lines in all Hal files

Delete (or comment out) from all .hal files lines of the form:
#loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange
#net tool-change iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change
#net tool-changed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.changed
#net tool-number iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number => hal_manualtoolchange.number

it then adds them back in, in a post-gui.hal, which then says they are in a probe_screen.hal. I was wondering if the dash in the post-gui should be an underscore post_gui

# this settings were moved to probe_screen.hal:
#net tool-change probe.toolchange-change <= iocontrol.0.tool-change
#net tool-changed probe.toolchange-changed <= iocontrol.0.tool-changed
#net tool-prep-number probe.toolchange-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number

net tool-prep-loop iocontrol.0.tool-prepare <= iocontrol.0.tool-prepared

Also, the probe_screen.hal file is located in the icons directory, I did try copying it to the machine config directory.

I also, did some manual changes to get the probe to work with linucCNC 2.8 with the changed references to Axis and joints.

andypugh wrote:

Or look in probe-secreen.hal, anyway.

Yes, they are uncommented in the probe-screen.hal, which is located in the probe_icons folder, there is another copy of the probe-secreen.hal in the probe_icons_1024x768, which also has them uncommented. Is it an issue if these lines appear in multiple places?