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To much time with Blender?
I foresee a lot of happy people, thanks to you.

1. try another pin
2. is the scaling set correctly

10.04 is 14 years old by now, but if it works for you, do not change it.
As for X-Box controller, it will probably not be recognized by such old kernel, but you might be able to find something if you search for "xbox ubuntu 10" and use that to implement into LinuxCNC (or EMC2 as you have it).
Another thing you might want to do is, download the Wheezy ISO from the downloads page, write to USB, boot from that USB, plug the controller, open a text editor with some text, see if you can move the cursor.
If that does not work, download the 2.9.3 ISO, write, boot, try some text.
All this is untested, but i might give it a try if i go to the shop tomorrow, i think i have an xbox controller somewhere.

Oh wow, nice! Glad you got it going!

I have never used EtherCAT as in doing a full setup, although i have fixed industrial machines using it i never had to mess with the EtherCAT part, so no idea.
I have used and use a lot of Mesa boards, they are worth every cent/penny/dime as they are extremely reliable and come with the best support on planet earth in the shape of PCW (an active member here), so i will not be switching to EtherCAT ever, especially since i learned it lacks some important stuff for me.
BTW, whatever the price for Mesa is, i have to pay at least double to get them here (black hole named Kosovo), still, i pay it gladly.
Reminds me, have to order some THCAD, installed the last one today.

Haben sie ein DVM/voltmeter?
Mesen die 5V wen die karte an ist, was ist die voltage? (spannung < ist das corect geschrieben?)

Nicely done, maestro.
Thank you.

Thank you for your contribution.

Hi guys,

Related to the previous post, where i was struggeling with a node library for too long time.

I had to make a choice what to do.

1. Just don't use the qtnodeeditor lib.
2. Don't use node structure's.
3. Try to create your own lib.

Choosed nr.3.

It took a few day's to figur out how the qt grapics widget works. And how to display qt widget in it.
Then made a solution for creating a simple setup for input, output ports and their widgets.

In the end, the result surprised me.

This is a test video, that loads a few input and output ports, and widgets attached to the port.
Then you can connect the output ports with the input ports. Data flow will stream then from output to input.

This whole idea can be used to format several big and complicated projects, like :

1. rtapi multi threading on several cpu's.
2. super imposed interpreters, running on multiple threads.
3. cnc machine interpreter to machine axis layout. Like connecting ABC, UWV axis.
4. Ethercat bus simulator on real hardware.
5. Plc
6 Classic ladder

User can just create .ui based widgets. This is easy to design. Each .ui widget then may have multiple input or output ports.
The logic is then done by the .ui class, wich conttains also the .h and .cpp files.

Let me know what you think, this is just an example :


Greetings.

Newbynobi, Thanks, for you efforts to add the Spindle +- speed control

HansU, Thank you!
I added these commands to my spindle_button.hal file.

net increase spindle_button.btn_spindle_increase => halui.spindle.0.increase
net decrease spindle_button.btn_spindle_decrease => halui.spindle.0.decrease

I now have the +- Buttons on the screen, and they actually work!

AND a special Thanks to Aciera as well, for showing me how to find the errors at startup!

You all are Awesome for helping me!

Swanie

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In this order:
7i97T single board with everything
7i92TM + 7i77 the first plugs into the second so no cables needed.
Both sets are Ethernet, not PCI-E, so they can be placed anywhere on the machine and need a single lan cable to the PC.

The 7I96S encoder inputs have 2 modes: differential = RS-422 and single-ended = TTL
These modes are set by jumpers on the 7I96S card, one per input. If you do not have
differential signals (and it sounds like you do not) the index input must be jumpered for
TTL mode.  (These jumper settings are described in the 7I96S manual)

Its most likely the 3.3V output signal is push-pull, The reason for caution is that is it is not push-pull
it may get pulled up to 5V by the 2K pullup resistor at the 7I96S input.

swanie2000 wrote:

[DEFAULT.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT][WARNING]  INI Parsing Error, No DEFAULT_SPINDLE_0_SPEED Entry in DISPLAY, Using: 200 (qt_istat.py:515)
[DEFAULT.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT][WARNING]  INI Parsing Error, No MIN_SPINDLE_0_SPEED Entry in DISPLAY, Using: 100 (qt_istat.py:515)
[DEFAULT.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT][WARNING]  INI Parsing Error, No MAX_SPINDLE_0_SPEED Entry in DISPLAY, Using: 2500 (qt_istat.py:515)
[DEFAULT.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT][WARNING]  INI Parsing Error, No MAX_SPINDLE_0_OVERRIDE Entry in DISPLAY, Using: 1 (qt_istat.py:515)
[DEFAULT.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT][WARNING]  INI Parsing Error, No MIN_SPINDLE_0_OVERRIDE Entry in DISPLAY, Using: 0.5 (qt_istat.py:515)

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These are just warnings you can ignore

swanie2000 wrote:

This also looks like a problem, but I do not know where to go with this one.

spindle_button.hal:17: Pin 'halui.spindle.increase' does not exist'halcmd -f spindle_button.hal' exited with 1

Use halui.spindle.0.increase instead

Amazing work! I am currently converting a haas mini mill, and not too familiar with the ribbon cable coming from the keypad. What side goes to what pins on the mega? I tried to read the sketch but couldn't work out the pins. I would be very grateful if you could assist me! I also have the pcb from the board with the rs port. I did see someone was working on that way too.

Many thanks Chris