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The first post has been updated to include images for 2.9.3.
The Pi 5 is tested and working.
Any feedback about the Pi4 would be appreciated

updated for Linuxcnc 2.9.3 
Newer kernel 6.6.44
Better screen support for the Pi5
Now includes ethercat repos. Following the sticky in th eethercat section to install/

Pi 5 Image  drive.google.com/file/d/1iwQpbMoNdI6wnv7...MyZ/view?usp=sharing
Pi4 Image  drive.google.com/file/d/1Fg2CPTezUyrRFrO...ytT/view?usp=sharing  
 

You have it set as IN mode, so only pins 1, 14, 16, 17 are outputs, and those can drive very low currents, but if using a BOB that should be OK.

Image for Pi 4b now is linked in the previous post.

Not near a PC, but do not chose shared switches, that means shared between axis/joints, choose ... i can not recal what exactly, but it has a lot of choices so choose min or max limit with home for the respective axis/joint, or both min/max and home, if the switches are set up for that.

We are doing a project by spending a lot of time, writing macros, making a plc program. ethercat.xml file,hal files, how can we protect them from our competitors.

Hi,

I am considering changing from ProbeBasic to QtDragon.
While setting up my newest machine I started with ProbeBasic but I needed to update vom LinuxCNC 2.8 to 2.9 t get some new features.
I usually modify modify my VCP quite a bit to fit my machines. But with ProbeBasic I always ran into trouble to bring this changes to a newer version. 
So here are my questions:
I can develop my one tab in QT Designer in embed it into QT Dragon without touching the main ui file, so when there is an update I don't lose my work? 
Are the Hal Widgets includes in QT Designer?
And not for my current machine, but maybe I swap my lathe later. Are the lathe Macros already implemented somehow? or easy to integrate?

Are there some best practices?
I Usually use the custom parts for monitoring the machines additional functions, like lube, spindle gears, hydraulic chuks, Column control and status IO's

Thanks Patrick
 

Apologies for the delay here. I was putting this off in preference to other Linuxcnc projects but its time has come

Pi 5 Image drive.google.com/file/d/1iwQpbMoNdI6wnv7...MyZ/view?usp=sharing
Pi4 Image drive.google.com/file/d/1Fg2CPTezUyrRFrO...ytT/view?usp=sharing 

Kernel 6.6.4 as per the raspberry pi's kernel git
Tested as working by Joco who bought a pi5 yesterday for the occasion!
Monitor support now fixed. He was using a 34" 3440 x 1440 monitor 

Ethercat apt repos now included
QTPYVCP repos a work in progress with the QTPYVCP team now VTK is in the Debian Repos.

There are no added programs, What was suggested was a bit out of left field as none of it was included in our AMD64 build.
Please read the downloads page on how to configure wifi, timezones and locales

 

Solved: really this time!

The SII eeprom image created by siitool based on the manufacturers ESI xml file did not configure some PDI bits, such as enable sync0, which is important for the open source ethercat master. I had to graft some bytes of an older image onto siitools output and rectify the crc checksum. With the attached files I am confident one can integrate Metronix ARS2000 series and some Festo CMMP series servo drives into a linux-run ethercat network.

I can confirm that building it is not that hard. but may be I got one dependency wrong as axis is complaining that there is a TCL error in async code:

Bad menu entry index "G-code properties..."

Aciera, I thank you very much again. The code you wrote works perfectly. I was only having problems because I was trying to do this in the shared folder. I added the following code to the python code and copied the file to another location. Everything is OK now.

import shutil

# Source path
source = "/home/User/Documents/file.txt"

# Destination path
destination = "/home/User/Documents/newfile/file.txt"

# Copy the content of
# source to destination
shutil.copyfile(source, destination)

Yeah they all do linux. Software: Gowin_V1.9.10_linux (/programmer/driver folder).
$ sudo Gowin_USB_Cable_Installer.sh
$ sudo make
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /etc/modprobe.d/

Done.
( www.gowinsemi.com/en/document/main/database/14/?page=1)

do they work under linux ?
and with which software ?

meister wrote:

Do you think it could also work with a USB blaster?

I wouldn't know for sure, Oliver. Nice thing about Gowin's is the endless jtag probes avail, for all I know. I have 3 here that works perfectly fine (up to 10~15mhz). The one you saw in previous visuals (FT232 based), and the ones below. All <$15. 

Thanks, I'm in, it looks fantastic, great work, I should say that I'm an IT guy tinkerer nowhere near as talented as most of the folks on here but LinuxCNC is the only system I've ever used. I love Linux. The HAL still gives me heart palpitations.