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You add a new pdoentry for 606C to the 1A00 PDO in your ethercat-conf.xml file. In this entry idx, subidx, bitlen, is from the A6 manual, you chose a name for "halPin".
Inside you hal file you can then use that name. E.g. like lcec.0.X.yourname
In this example 0 is your first ethercat interface, X is the name of your slave. See "halshow" -> Pins ...

Hi all,

After upgrading from LinuxCNC 2.9.3 to 2.9.4, I encountered an issue in QtDragon where the tool probing routine (qt_auto_probe_tool) starts before I press the “OK” button in the manual tool change dialog (M6).

This behavior was not present in 2.9.3. Previously, the probing would only begin after confirming the tool change.

I found that explicitly disabling the automatic probing behavior in the INI file resolves the issue:

ini
[DISPLAY]
AUTO_TOOL_PROBE = False

This stops QtVCP from launching the tool probe automatically right after M6, allowing me to call the probing subroutine manually after user confirmation.

LinuxCNC 2.9.4 (Debian Bookworm)

QtDragon UI

Manual tool change with M6 remap (calling qt_auto_probe_tool.ngc manually after M6)

I hope this helps others running into the same problem.
If this change in behavior is intended in 2.9.4, it might be worth documenting.

Thanks!

Hi taloot, I am very new to CNC and am trying to setup my home made machine with QTPlasmaC. This post processor is a .doc file, Fusion is prompting me for a .cps post configuration file. Am I missing another step or something really obvious for how to load this post into my Fusion library? Appreciate any advice!

Bump to remove it from "No replies" section.
This was also posted somewhere else on the forum and replied, so this remains a test post.
Thank you.

Moved to "PlasmaC" section.

Not sure if base period is required to run EtherCAT, i can not recall it being mentioned from what i read on this forum.
Either way, your latency results are terrible and to see just how terrible add --show at the end of the latency-histogram line.
In short:
-If you do need base period use older LinuxCNC ISO with Debian Wheezy, does not work with Mesa EtherNET boards and might most probably not work with EtherCAT
-If you do not need base period use the latest 2.9.4 ISO, do not edit or modify anything, just install a new RT-Preempt kernel, 6.13 should do just fine
-Make a config, run the machine, see if LinuxCNC complains about anything, if not = happy machinning