Help with Delta E3 Ethercat drives - hal and ethercat-conf.xml

Error messages says pyvcp_panel.hal, line 8.
Only thing I can think of is the line PYVCP=pyvcp_panel.xml in the ini file
that leads to the line it doesn't like.I suggest you comment out that line. It is for customization if I understand right. You can always come back later and look at that.

That sorted it. Just #'d out the two PYVCP lines. Looking back over the build thread it was using probe basic so that's probably the issue.
I now have axis running with one encoder that's reading! Fantastic. Don't have any motor control though. I can move the motor shaft and get count and motion on the simulator display but with the machine enabled I can't jog. The sim shows movement but no shaft rotation.

I'm also getting a Linuxcnc notification "LCEC: Invalid appTimePeriod of 0 for master 0 (should be 1000000)."

A quick search on the forum suggests that relates to:
in the ini file but it's set to 1000000 already.

That's what makes it so challenging with ethercat. Settings in several places and cross-dependencies.
Anyways, the second line in ethercat-conf.xml has the appTimePeriod setting.
There also


There are two more settings you can do now when things start to work.
Add this line right under the "<slave" line

and go back up to the second line in the file and add a minus-sign to the refClockSyncCycles value

Righto I've added those lines in. No change on the x axis motor movement though.

In the interim I've connected up my second servo drive in order to start getting a full setup. I've essentially just copied and pasted the working x drive info but I'm gettingI've attached the files. No doubt it's some stupid simple thing.

*Is it easier if I just put the files straight into the post as code rather than attaching them? I want to make sure it's as easy as possible for everyone.[/code][/code]

Ok, it's the second line in the hal file,  num_joints=2