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I'm trying to sort out my lathe spindle orient and have stumbled across a problem.

Currently, orient isn't working as expected: the spindle unwinds all the way to encoder position 0, and in the same direction every time.

The spindle is working as expected in normal velocity mode... no problems changing direction.

On my mill's 0-10v control I've got an ABS component linked to the spindle/orient mux2 output.  The ABS is-negative pin is connected to the spindle direction pin.  This works well - orient picks the shortest path and does what's expected.

However, on my lathe's spindle I'm using a pwm control (7i96s/7i85s), and while there is a pwmgen.N.dir pin in the software pwm component, there doesn't appear to be a similar hal direction pin for hostmot2 hardware pwm outputs.

The Hostmot2 manual references Out0 and Out1 pins, and under the Parameters/hm2_7i96s/0/pwmgen/01 section of halshow there are categories named out0 & out1... but no pins I can connect to the ABS component.

Any suggestions on a pwm direction pin, or is there some other hal scheme I should be using to get orient behaving properly?

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Thank You so much. I have been reading, but unsure what to read and where to find it.

Actually we are using 7.3 Periodic synchronous position mode (CSP mode)
 

Turns out Kate was not saving my file changes for some reason. Thank you for your quick help, all is working now.

Steady work is happening on it at the moment, but it will be a week or two probably before we shake out everything and merge to the development repo

Are you sure you are editing the correct file?
Check and recheck, as that is the only thing.

Got the safety circuit ready today with e-stop and reset, it sends the a ready signal to the Ek1100. 

The green and blue push bottoms are a latching start circuit that drives a relay, it shorts the power bottom on the pc and gives power to the Ek1100.

​​​​​ have a nice day all

Basic Mill Config Using hal_gpio

forum.linuxcnc.org/media/kunena/attachme...8/my-mill-config.zip
Link to driver:
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers/hal_gpio.html

Note unless SPI is disabled in /boot/broadcom/config.txt GPIO07 & GPIO08 can not be used.

Sorry I'm not going to be gentle. Users need to be told. I'll assume you aren't a child.

Yeah Tommy's right. RPi's don't have a parallel port. I'm not too sure where you got the idea Rapsberry Pis have one. The error report is pretty verbose in reporting what is wrong.

Arduino seems to be a lot of cut & pasting other people's code.

Once again this is a situation where users don't read the docs and just jump in head first without doing any research.
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/hal_parport.9.html

This is the driver you need to use. Please read this. And take the time to read the documentation, the devs put a lot of effort into this, please take the time to read them.
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers/hal_gpio.html

Beware that unless SPI is not disabled in /boot/broadcom/config.txt you wont be able to use GPIO07 & GPIO08.

This is a link to a 3 axis setup
forum.linuxcnc.org/media/kunena/attachme...8/my-mill-config.zip

Thanks I'll get this installed tonight!
 

Yup, already tried raising that one as well, unfortunately it didn't help.

There is also the [TRAJ] section with speed limits
MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY = 25.00
so raise that to probably 100 as in the display section.

From your error report
Linux parallel port 0 not found
But i have no idea what should be instead of it for RPI as i do not use them.

forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/33529-hurco-bmc-20p-retrofit
And you will also need this
forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configura...to-example-mesa-7i77