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I just checked the NAS, i do not have the headers.
You can install a new RT kernel and headers, or older one, but do not use 6.1 as it had some nasty latency issues (no idea what exact version it was).
Should be 6.17 by now so give that a try.

An alternative to consider would be using polar interpolation combined with a 'standard' set of macros for XY-type milling.

As I mentioned earlier, polar interpolation is not in main-line LCNC but there is a working configuration available on the forums:

forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configura...oling?start=0#225787

Nojo's implementation works, but I think the hurdle for anyone else to use it is that Nojo hard-coded the live tool offsets to match his particular machine.  I'd think some editing of the comp would be required to make it a universal component/scheme.  (i.e. use the currently loaded tool offset, not a fixed offset)

If you found an existing 'conversational' configuration/GUI you liked, polar interpolation should permit programming using that conversational system.

However, it's understandable if you're not interested in falling down the comp file development rabbit-hole and just want some working macros.

I used lut5 to check for various conditions.

Here is my HAL on Github:  github.com/shallerbach/endchen_rack_atc/...3f0/endchen.hal#L124

I might be wrong as I have only used Debian for years because Mint let me down a few years ago when Python 3 became mandatory for Linuxcnc and have not researched this for you.
I have a feeling that 6.13 is not a standard kernel used by Debian and therefore its derivatives. I believe that 6.12 was a release version.
So if it was not released, there won't be a readymade set of headers so you would need to compile the kernel to a Deb file which will output the headers as a Deb to install.

Debian is a much easier path. Just install the Cinamon desktop on install and you'll hardly miss Mint.

So does that mean you are in business and have a PC for spare parts? Hope so!
If not, I might be able to work in another site visit but it would cost you some footage for a YouTube video... 
There is an email that gets me on my @MrRodW YouTube channel

Oh, can't believe I hadn't even searched for Syntec here.
I have literally spent the last week looking for used SK panels and trying to figure out what's what with them.I would be very, very interested in hearing more about your exact board and what's underneath your Arduino and next to it.  
Now, feel free to skip to the bottom as next I was asking questions that you have actually answered already - I just didn't know enough to realize:)

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Newer SK panels have a small "matrix chip" surface mounted to the button side of the PCB (just inbetween button switches), older ones have a larger one on the backside (often a Holtek) and even older ones have a whole daughter board attached to the back side with a what Syntec calls a "decoder module". I always assumed the chip would spit out a proprietary serial link. I had no idea they were talking PS/2... Well, I thought perhaps the older ones were based on the Holtek model numbers.

But I have been trying to avoid newer boards because I wanted easy access to the matrix. I also had no idea the matrix is actually availble on the "HK Connector" - but that's how it looks from your picture. It looks like the Arduino is connecting to the HK. Or is the HK sending out PS/2 to your arduino? In which case your panel must indeed still have a "matrix chip somewhere" and your Arduino turns PS/2 into USB? 

Also, how do you control the button LEDs? 

If you could find time to share some more on how you made this work, I would be very grateful. I would mostly likely go this way as apart from ideally wanting more overide knobs, the SK4/6M panels have a really nice set of control buttons - plus the alphanumeric keys, too.

On a related note - as for turning the matrix into USB, when I asked AI about how to hack older SK panels it suggested this approach but to also make a combo USB protocol of HID plus a gamepad or joystick library. That way, supposedly, when doing the HAL connections you don't have to venture into weird combo USB presses to map the buttons that HID has no library for. So, you'd use HID for the regular stuff it already has and then gamepad library for everything "CNC" and it would just be passed through as button 1, button 2, etc. 

Also, I did talk to a Chinese vendor had to check back with the factory on the protocols and how open they actually are but between the language barrier and me only wanting to buy one, he kinda lost interest, haha. But I think he said they could deliver bare matrix, USB-HID and more.  

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[EDIT] I really should learn to read. You specifically explained the SK panel does both PS/2 and matrix. So, now I think the PS/2 signal may be coming into your arduino from that 5 pin connector in the corner of the board that says "to keyboard" and the matrix comes out of the HK Connector. Also, you even said the matrix is shared for both buttons and LEDs. So, there we have it:) What wonderful detective work you have done to make these panels work! 
So... would you be inclined to share the code and pin mapping to help others along:)? 


 

The only time I've used SDO's is to configure the drive. Maybe your drive does not need any configuration.
SDO's are not required to use cia402 commands

does lcec_configgen create a XML file?

First the Linuxcnc version you quote is invalid. What is it really?
Second, 256  is a very signiicant number for computers because an 8 bit number (1 byte) counts from 0-255 which a computer's way of counting from 1-256.
The  G54 values are stored in the var file. I could not see exactly what us the varibale number on a quick look. I would check this after you close to make sure its not being incremented on close,

My guess is that Linuxcnc will be OK but somehow outside of LinuxCNC, your encoder value is incremented by 1 X  8 bit byte.

Hi there.

When choosing the PROBE tab with the file in the indicated directory, a pop-up window comes with this error:
"Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/qtvcp/screens/qtdragon_hd/qtdragon_hd_handler.py", line 626, in main_tab_changed
self.adjust_stacked_widgets(index)
File "/home/izan/linuxcnc/configs/QtDragon/qtvcp/screens/qtdragon_hd/qtdragon_hd_handler.py", line 126, in adjust_stacked_widgets
self.w.setCurrentIndex(num)
~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/qtvcp/qt_makegui.py", line 493, in __getitem__
return getattr(self, item)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'VCPWindow' object has no attribute 'dro_button_stack_4' "

(Attached the report)

In the other hand, I´ve set 99 tool number to probe, and after running a program if I go to TOOL tab, select it and push the M61 button to choose, it runs pretty good despite the down yellow line appears with the "cannot switch pages while in AUTO mode"

that is essentially the commands Ive been trying.

below shows the error that keeps cropping up

i havn't been able to manually find a matching header either,  only some very close but older revisions and i dont know enough about linux to go about building it up to suit the above revision, or if thats even something that could be done.
 

It is Qtdragon_hd, that's right.
I will try along the day and feedback.

-the thing with C axis going from approx. 110 to -280 in about 10 lines of gcode does not seem OK

sounds like you might have downloaded the first version of the filter script which I modified shortly after posting to fix exactly this issue. So make sure you use the current one with the transition handling:


I have tested this with all three {1,2,3}.pts files and the result looks fine to me. (The C axis values never goes negative)

Attached are the Python files that I modified for my M6 remap with auto-tool measurement.  My changes are tagged with "JHK".
Enjoy
John 

Almost forgot, also swapped in hal the X and Z axis, so now if you turn the machine on the left side it is exactly as in the Vismach preview, and set the ini for A axis to home at 90, so i do not have to do that at every start.

Yeah, not really that easy though, I'm really going to have to write one so it's more like an easy to write cycle on the machine. Like a conversational control.