ini to HAL communication

can you post your hal and ini?

clive wrote:

I'm a programmer, I'm used to writing my own variable names...

As a programmer you might be interested to know that you appear to have identified a namespace clash.

The spindle.N.on (etc) signals are created by the HAL "motion" component.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

But there is also a "spindle" HAL component that is intended to handle gear changes and spindle ramp rate control.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/spindle.9.html

I wish that I could blame someone else for this, but it was I who changed the names of the motion.spindle.... pins as part of the introduction of multiple spindle support, and also I who committed a HAL component for spindle gearing support that had been sat uncommitted for several years without spotting the scope for confusion.

I will add an explanatory note to the documentation for the "spindle" HAL component.

In nearly every case you would want to look at the "motion" docs to understand the "spindle" pins.

Oops, I appologize. I got that totally wrong, didn't I.

This of course is not the motion man page:

Yes that is a HAL Pin that is defined. Although it doesn't seem to be a valid hal-pin in version 2.8:

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/spindle.9.html

rather it's this one:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

and here 'spindle.M.on' does of course exist.

Yes, that should work. My appologies again for the confusion.