PnCConf Error with 7i80DB

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum and Linux in general so there may be a really simple reason for this error. I've managed to flash the firmware to the 7i80DB (2x7i77 and 2x7i74) and changed the ip address to 10.10.10.10 and that all worked. I then loaded up PnCConf and went all the way through the program setting up encoders and analogue signals using the 5i25 and 2x7i77 initial setup and at the end I got this:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pncconf/pages.py", line 107, in on_button_fwd_clicked self() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pncconf/pages.py", line 1316, in finished_finish self.a.buid_config() File "/usr/bin/pncconf", line 1533, in buid_config self.INI.write_inifile(base) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pncconf/build_INI.py", line 133, in write_inifile cmd =self["halui_cmd" + str(i)] File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pncconf/build_INI.py", line 347, in __getitem__ return getattr(self, item) AttributeError: INI instance has no attribute 'halui_cmd0'

Can anyone let me know what's going on here?

Thanks!

Rob

In the home directory under linuxcnc and the name of my machine there's a .ini file, but it's empty as well as a tool.tbl. In PnCConf I did tell it I wanted to add Halui user interface components and to include Classicladder PLC because I wanted to learn to use that stuff, could that be the issue?

There was actually some stuff written on those boxes but I just unchecked the halui and the classicladder checkboxes and it generated all of the files properly.

Thanks for your help!

I've managed to generate the hal and ini files for a 5i25 and 2x7i77 and I've done my best to convert them for use with the 7i80DB but now I'm running into the problem where LinuxCNC won't start because of all kinds of errors. I've solved some of them but I'm having trouble with one in particular now.

The Debug file information is:

./UVac_CNC.hal:9: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i80DB.0.watchdog.timeout_ns' not found
7994
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND

Obviously there's a problem with the watchdog timer, I just have no idea what that problem is.

Does anyone have hal and ini files for the 7i80db that I could take a look at? I'm doing my best to convert the 5i25 but I can't find much information on the newer cards like the 7i80.

I'm running the latest 2.7 with Preempt-RT and uspace. At least I think I am, the uname -a returns the correct thing for preempt-rt but I'm not sure how to check on uspace...

I commented it out and now the error has just moved to the next line:
Error:
function 'hm2_7i80DB.0.read' not found

I then put that the watchdog line back in and added those lines you mentioned and I get the headings for pins and parameters in the error file but there's nothing in the lists so I'm guessing it hasn't assigned pins or parameters yet.

Is changing the HAL file from 5i25 to 7i80 as simple as replacing all instances of 5i25 with 7i80DB and making sure that the hm2_eth is used instead of hm2-pci?