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Thanks for the replies! I have considered putting independent x/y MPGs somewhere on the machine, but it doesn't quite scratch the itch I'm trying to scratch. 
My background is a manual machinist, and I wanted to add some CNC capability to my arsenal, even if that came at the cost of being able to do manual machining the way I used to. That said, there's no substitute from the feedback you get from turning the cranks, when you just need to make a quick slot, face a part, etc.
It seems like LinuxCNC (appropriately) is really intended almost exclusively for the CNC use case. 

Every slave must have its own configuration in the config xml file.
See example here. github.com/dbraun1981/hal-cia402/blob/ma...le/ethercat-conf.xml

You must enter the config for the new drive.

AkkiSan wrote:

 without my M64/M65-flipflop solution, 

 

Please publish your solution in full, including function declarations such as loadrt + everything, everything, everything. So that I can repeat it.

yes, everything is working well thanks

You get after start another lcec.1. instances with your pins.

I can provide a config later this day.

Greets sven

Hi,
can you please add your .json config.

Have you set the scale for the quad encoder correctly?

and then how will you specify the .hal file for separate masters? 

there will be more lcec. instances? 

do anybody have working config?

Yes, you add a second master in your /etc/ethercat.conf
There is already a line:

# The MASTER<X>_DEVICE variables also determine, how many masters will be
# created: A non-empty variable MASTER0_DEVICE will create one master, adding a
# non-empty variable MASTER1_DEVICE will create a second master, and so on.
#
MASTER0_DEVICE="eno0"
MASTER1_DEVICE="eno1 or mac adress" 

Then you can add a second master in your ethercat-conf.xml

<master idx="1" appTimePeriod="1000000" refClockSyncCycles="5">

And that's it.

I had testet it with 2 Nic's not long ago

It's working fine.

Greetings Sven

My PC has two Ethernet ports. I want to use port 1 to connect to devices A, B, and C, and port 2 to connect to devices D, E, and F because they are in separate locations. Is it possible to configure two EtherCAT ports?

Sorry for the late response. If our problem is same, this is what I changed in the sii file from my Inovance driver. I changed that part to ‘04’ and then wrote it back to the driver after making the change.

I did try reversing the input, Does my custom.hal file look correct? I get a joint 0 amplifier fault instantly its the only joint i am trying to figure out at the moment i haven't tried to add the other joints yet. Is there other ways of doing this that might be easier to add in my case ?

Thanks

rodw wrote:

To get a specific kernel you probably need to get the source from kernel.org
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/
Follow a similar process to the attachment but I assume you won't need to patch the real time kernel

If I go that way I will, absolutely, need to patch the kernel. 
But this whole thread seems to say that there was a 5.4.279-rtai kernel that a number of people successfully tested. But which is now nowhere that I have looked. 

I have installed 5.4.290-rtai on a machine here, and it seems to work for me, and I have created a LinuxCNC / Trixie / RTAI package based on it, but I don't want to bake that into an ISO if it's known to be an unreliable kernel. 

I'm using a slightly older version of the probe screen so the gcode() method is in base.py. I haven't upgraded. I suppose I should.

I'm running axis 2.8.1.
I like the idea of the INI file value [TOOLSENSOR]RAPID_SPEED being used for the movement to/from the start search position. I could then even use F50 for example after tool is up above the work piece. Then when it reaches the other end it goes back to self.ps_rapid_speed from the probe screen parameter which I have set at 10.

However somehow although it works on Thonny the

if "G1 " in l:
l += " F#<_ini[TOOLSENSOR]RAPID_SPEED>"

is not working. And setting the box on the probe screen to 50 for rapid has the risk of breaking the probe. Actually anything above about 20 has that risk.

I run Ubuntu 24.04 on my workshop station.
So no problem doing as Tommy suggested, and I will follow that up.

Did some more digging, found out FreeCad will open a GCode file and display the paths.
And, when a path is selected, the readout shows the (nearly) equivalent file line number and x,y,z coordinates.

Already solved the problem that initiated the OP, thanks to all.

John.

LesNewell wrote:

I had a quick play and noticed a few issues.
Are you intending to charge for this? 

It appears so:

www.plasmadesk.com/LE/pricing.html