Mesa 7i96 and LinuxCNC 2.8 PnCConf

Actually they are in_not, but there's no need to guess, you can read the hostmot manual page:

man hostmot2

or run a command like:

halcmd show pin | grep gpio

when have LinuxCNC running

The easiest way to verify switch operation (unless you enjoy guessing games) is to read the actual live pin states with halshow and verify that all your switches are working and the polarity is correct

Mesa GPIO has always used _ for in_not

Why oh why is linuxcnc so picky?

I'm getting an error that says "hm2_7i96.0.gpio.034.in-not" does not exist

@PCW, what's my move here?

snugglylovemuffin wrote:

I'm getting an error that says "hm2_7i96.0.gpio.034.in-not" does not exist

@PCW I've changed it back to in_not and will try halshow again

Why oh why is linuxcnc so picky?

Because if it was not picky/precise about pin names you could not trust its behavior.

Its easy to get pin/parameter/signal names right, just use the available tools to list the actual pin/parameter names.

For example to list all pins/parameters and functions, you can runs this command:

halcmd show all

to show just 7I96 pins/parameters you could type

halcmd show all | grep 7i96

You can also re-direct the output of these commands to a "donor" file to copypast from, so you never need to actually type pin/parameter names:

halcmd show pin | grep 7i96 > 7i96pins.txt

Unfortunately that does not always work, not sure why

Pulled up halshow, put pins 34-39 on "watch" and actuated the limit; no indication of anything happening. I can run 24v into TB3 1-11 to switch low right? Just asking because there doesn't seem to be much of a reason for the limits to not work.

hm2_7i96.0.gpio.034.in_not is the proper way to wire the pin to switch low in mesa, yes?