HalView - view HAL pin values externally in C++

Do I expect to see a redisclient.ko?

Ok I see it just compiles a standard binary. Hal does not see the file even though I copied it to the rtlib directory. Any other trick I am missing?

Database is running and halview is working as per test program. Just not from HAL.

Hal does not see the file even though I copied it to the rtlib directory.

It is a userspace component, not a realtime one

Needs to be copied to /usr/bin or the /bin folder in the RIP if that is what you are using

Looks like you are almost there

Man after all this time I have to learn that usercomps go to the bin directory. I dont think I ever did a user comp, only rt comps

Thanks for the great help, I do appreciate it.

Hi Mick
I installed the halview utility on two machines now. both running on linuxcnc 2.6.latest.
The redisclient refused to compile so I used the supplied file. On both systems I get all thing loading but it seems like nothing is talking to one another. Here are some screen shots of the terminal running the server as well as the lcnc halshow etc.

Hi

I would suspect it is a problem with redis, probably changed something between versions.
I didn't have to start it in a terminal, after the make and make install, it started a daemon at boot.
I probably scripted it, can't remember, was a long time ago.

Unfortunately I don't have anything installed that is still running on Ubuntu 10.04 to test with.

I have been into my NAS that has the last remaining backup of 10.04 in it
redis was version 2.4.6, your version 2.8.13 has hugely changed even just going by the release notes and may not be compatable.

If you want to install Debian Wheezy, I could probably make a binary deb given time, but I suspect you have enough complications

Best I can offer at present is to zip up the redis 2.4.6 sources and put them somewhere for you to download and try those

regards

I will try the older files for now as I am not ready to go the Wheezy just yet. I have a machine in the office that I must put Wheezy on but until then, the stuff in the shop has to be 10.04

PM me so I can send you a link to my dropbox.

Hi

I have now re-written the program to port it for Qt5 and have it running on Debian Wheezy
I used the redis-2.4.6 sources, so I suspect the later sources must have been the problem you had.

I will make a binary deb package at some point, that installs the lot, redis-server, hiredis libs, redisclient component, pulls in Qt5 libs and provides a sample config folder to test it on.

Will have to repeat the process on a binary.hybrid.iso install to get that right, I am using a 64 bit rt-prempt kernel and MachineKit at present

regards

Wow that sounds promising. It is a very handy tool if one is having problems writing more complex real time components.
If you need the hardware to work to test your code, things sometimes gets really messed up.

I am looking forward to seeing what you generate.
I did nothing to the problem today. I was to knackered from long hours this week on to many problems all at once.

I will install the old code on the shop machine tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks a lot for you great effort on this tool.