Mesa Configuration Tool

I wanted to create a configuration for a 5i25 + 7i85s.
It seems that the 7i85s is not fully supported yet.
I get this when trying to select the 7i85s:

And in the Axes tab it still says 7i77


Furthermore I wonder about the meaning of the bit/pin files in the 5i25/holding folder. Are those the not yet supported ones?

Thanks for the feedback, I'll correct that in the morning.

Yes, as I add support for bit files I move them from holding.

JT

I fixed the errors and you "should" be able to configure your axes but didn't have time to test that. Download a fresh copy of the deb from the menu File > Download Amd64 Deb in mesact.

JT

A comment on the commit "fix checking for linuxcnc version I hope"
If I set the localization to en, then it works for me. But with German locale if didn't work because your query gives this:

Not sure how to get this fixed multilangual.

Some other annotations:

• When I select a firmware like 5i25_7i85sx2 - shouldn't it be generally possible to select two daughter cards?
• And these drop down menus are empty for me:
  
  
• Backups - This could be understood as backup of the firmware because of the layout. Maybe change the text to "Enable Configuration Backups"
• It creates some non-existing pins the the HAL file:
  Code:

  hm2_5i25.0.7i85s.0.1.analogena hm2_5i25.0.7i85s.0.1.analogout0-scalemax hm2_5i25.0.7i85s.0.1.analogout0-minlim    hm2_5i25.0.7i85s.0.1.analogout0-maxlim   hm2_5i25.0.7i85s.0.1.analogout0
• In Axes I have to provide values for the PID controller. I think the config generation shouldn't fail I don't provide PID parameters in case I don't want to use a PID controller.

And the error message could be improved to be more helpful.
I did some changes in the INI file, and mesact came up with:


It would be nice if gives me a line number e.g.

Furthermore in [DISPLAY] isn't "MIN_VELOCITY" kind of deprecated and should be replaced by" MIN_LINEAR_VELOCITY" ?

Edit:

The problem was that I inserted `HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = YES` but the tool uses "True" for that.
According to the docs it should be YES/NO.
The same for "HOME_USE_INDEX"
"HOME_IS_SHARED" has to be 0/1 according to the docs.
Maybe LinuxCNC accepts True/False as well, but I think you tool should at least accept the values from the docs .