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I have the installed version of linuxcnc on the 2.9.7 version, ive tryed to follow the orders of previes posts but they are to old and much of the links dont work anymore, if i run it from terminal the only output i get is that the plugins for LED, Buttons etc. is missing

well done its working !
I need the distributed clocks working if i want it to be compatible with LinuxCNC ?

I saw that one, that was a new one to me.
How about not solving it, and instead go around it?
Add a PDO say scale as rxpdo? I mean anything useful, you don't need to do anything with it, just a place holder.
Then you don't need that declaration in main.cpp.
I have always had rxpdos so had not encountered that before.
I can try to see what's going on in the code a bit later.

Meister, I think it is how you go from the comfort zone with Twincat to the deep waters in linux.
I read and write eeprom with "ethercat sii_read" and "ethercat sii_write", the EEPROM_generator
gives me directly the eeprom to download in bin format. The tool you refer to can be used
to take an arbitrary xml file and turn into eeprom format for downloading. It's very useful,
one of the tools to keep in the toolchest.

What version of linuxcnc are you using?
Is it an installed version or a run in place version?
What specifically have you tried?
If you run qtdrasigner from a terminal, what does it print?

Thanks Hakan for the inputs.
After not finding any obvious issues using your suggestion, I did what I should have done in the first place and used TwinCAT to test the terminal.
And as it turns out, the terminal seems to be the issue despite being sold as working, I can't get it to output anything with TwinCAT either.
So I will get a new one and try again.

Hello,
I updated the GIT.
I managed to flash my eeprom correctly however with the current I-m stuck in with this compilation issue:[/code]

A little tip for non-Windows users: you don't need TwinCat to read, write, edit or convert .bin/.xml esi files.

github.com/multigcs/esitool

Hello
Thank you for pushing me

I took back your project and build with the SPI2, flash you r eeprom and it worked well, im in OP mode in free run.

As I'm a beginner, my goal is to have a working base (basically yours...) and edit in order to adapt my needs.
Now I have the SPI working well, I will try to integrate my encoder from thise base

Apologies for reviving this old topic but found a mistake on the diagram that may generate a lot of frustation to anyone trying to use it.

Pin AI3 is missing, so all other digital input pins from so on are displaced 1 position.

Unfortunatelly even if moderators delete the link in both  #98901  and  #112565  on the forum, the diagram is still appearing as one of the first searchs on search engines. Not sure if OP has a way to change the picture on his cloudfront account.
 

Yeah wifi can be an issue sometimes.
It might be worth looking into some of the services that maybe running not is not required for a cnc machine, CUPS is one for example.

I disable hyperthreading and now it show max 16us and it never froze.
Edit: btw i think i know why it froze.
I had a wifi card put in but now i remove it.
And the latency is better without it.

unknown wrote:

The missing firmware module can safely be ignored.
The above post can be safely ignored as well.
Tho if it is something you can do and can afford, I would recommend looking at the riocore/LinuxcncRIO project as that can connect via ethernet, is creates step/direction in hardware and as such only requires a servo thread. Another plus being you don't require a RTAI kernel. Just mentioning as this might be worth investigating. The developer is very generous with his time as well and the project is very active.
 

I'l try riocore/LinuxcncRIO later
Last night i did clean install of Debian 12.12
And downloaded :
RTAI Kernel 5.4.258
RTAI modulesernel 5.4.258
LinuxCNC package for RTAI kernel 5.4.258

Now when installed the kernel the message with i915 did not show up.
After a night of latency-test the numbers are ok.
 
Hyper threading is active that why it say 2 cores.

I missed the "shared home and limit" option.
Thank you for pointing that out!

Hi all

I have a DragonRise USB board that I am using for a pendant.
Currently I press and hold a button for the speed & then an X Y or Z axis button to jog.

I would like to be able press a zero button & one of the axis to zero that one.

I did see this code for the ini file....
[HALUI]
# add halui MDI commands here (max 64)
MDI_COMMAND = "G10 L20 P0 X0"
MDI_COMMAND = "G10 L20 P0 Y0"
MDI_COMMAND = "G10 L20 P0 Z0"

but I am not sure how to call it from my hal file.

I have attached my ini & the USB part of the hal file.
Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thnks
Alex.

After mucking about for a while I would like to be able to do something like this (i think)

#
setp zero-mux4.in0     99             # Setting this input  prevents motion unless one of the other buttons is pressed.
setp zero-mux4.in1     02             # Zero X
setp zero-mux4.in2     03             # Zero Y
setp zero-mux4.in3     04             # Zero Z

net zero-btn0        <= zero-mux4.sel0    <= input.0.btn-base
net zero-btn1        <= zero-mux4.sel1    <= input.0.btn-trigger

#net zero-axis         => zero-mux4.out    => halui.mdi-command-(zero-mux4.out)

Does this sound like how it should be done.

 

zoeper wrote:

I am trying to get as far as possible using PNCConf as HAL is still foreign to me.
Next would be to get the rest of the E-stop (including overtravel) circuit connected and tested before I hook up the belts.
Homing on this machine used to involve looking for the -vector switches (could be +Vector on Z) and reversing direction off the limit until the index marker is found. Can this be set up using PNCConf as well?
 

Decide which end of the limit you want to home to, then pick shared home+limit for the associated switch(es). You will also need to specify Home search direction and home latch direction in each axis page. I know LinuxCNC has homing to index, but I don't currently have that bit figured out on my current retrofit project.