External ESTOP trouble

Gosh... I didn't mean to open a can of worms!

Thank you very much tommylight for your suggested fix. Unfortunately when I add this line to my hal file, linuxcnc fails with the following...

"./Bridgeport.hal:313: Pin 'hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-00' was already linked to signal 'estop-out'"

(aside: line 313 is where I added tommylight's line)

I have been reading up on the HAL interface, and I have to admit that I am still quite confused. about how these things are intended to work? It is clear that they do, and for that I am thankful. It is just very hard for a newbie such as myself to make sense of.

Rod,
I appreciate all of your helpful literature and the videos you have made on various linuxcnc topics.

When you say "Its pretty well described in the man page and there was a hal tutorial about it on the forum." it would be *super* helpful if you would link the articles/threads you are referencing. Otherwise I really have no way of knowing which particular man page or forum thread you are referring to. There are a number of forum threads which seem to fit your description and which also appear to contradict one another?

I wonder if you are referencing the estop-latch man page? If so, I have read it, and I do not feel that the man page does a very good job of describing estop-latch at all! It does not explain estop-latch's purpose, when it should be used and when it should not. Further, it does not provide any usage examples. The man page does describe the options, and I expect it does so completely, but it does not explain any of them. I found it quite cryptic actually. I am still entirely confused about what problem estop-latch is intended to solve.

I understand there is some debate about whether having the hard estop signal run through linuxCNC is "compliant" or not. I must admit that I am completely in the dark as to what standard we are complying with, so I have no opinion. While I do care about safety, compliance is not a issue for me right now in my home shop.

All I am trying to achieve here is to have "hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-00" go high when "hm2_7i96s.0.inm.00.input-03" goes low.

Seems like it ought to be simple... but there is clearly some piece of the larger picture that I am missing, because it is appears that it is not simple?

Thank you for your help.

Bill