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rodw wrote:

I drew up my own pin out diagram converting the wire colours to be correct and my 7i73 woke up!

Did it sleep well ?

Take care here, Network cabling comes in two different flavours T568B and T568A. Google for the difference
In my case, Mesa's serial port manual describes one of these standards but in my country the normal standard was the other!
I drew up my own pin out diagram converting the wire colours to be correct and my 7i73 woke up!

Changed the subject tittle to reflect use of Remora, is that OK?

Pictures of the wiring?

I'll try and get to the 7I96 configuration later today or tomorrow

but note you need a  RS-485 interface, and that's only available on the 7I96 configuration.
The 7I92 configs  would need to add a RS-485 chip or a daughtercard with a RS-485 interface.


 

I added the RS485 termination resistors and I'm successfully talking to the VFD.

When I get new firmware I will retry automatic gear detection with a faster update of the motor frequency.

Thanks, but I gave it an S command, both on a separate entry before, and on the same entry as the M3, but that doesn't correct it. When I command spindle on with S100 M3, the green spindle turning indications on the Gmoccapy display goes on, but the VFD is not commanded. Pushing the physical button I get both the display indication, and the spindle turning.

Ich habe mir das mal angeschaut mit pyngcgui also das an sich startet auch und ich habe das auch anwenden können mit diesem plugin welches man noch zusätzlich laut beispiel Konfiguration installieren soll nur hab ich noch nicht verstanden wie ich mir das auf den mill catalog stelle , schön wäre es wenn nativecam läuft und eventuell kann mir ja wer. Dabei helfen das zum laufen zu bekommen . Gruß tom

I don't know what's wrong with your enter button, but normally it should work with the enter button:
 

And so IMHO it does not really make sense to have a hardware button to send MDI commands which you need to type with the keyboard.

How is the behaviour on your machine different from that I have shown?

I may be totally wrong, but I think when using M3 for the first time in MDI after startup, you need to give it a speed (M3 S400). Afterwards, that speed is assumed.

Try that one: www.forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/40709-gm...lock?start=70#286868

Weird one here. I have three physical buttons on my control panel connected to halui.spindle.0.forward, halui.spindle.0.reverse, and halui.spindle.0.stop. These are working normally.

But if I type an M3 or M4 command, I get no spindle rotation. It was working before, and just stopped working abbruptly. I would have expected the external buttons to trigger the same signal path as M3 M4? Any thoughts what I need to be looking for would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Mark

One of the 7i84 cards is detected and shows all pins, with both field power (power over the RJ45) and power over the VIN pin present (not at the same time, obviously), but it gives a low-voltage error and does not seem to actually work. The second one I cannot get to be detected at all.

I really need multiple Smart Serial cards to be detected for the system to work, and on the 7i92/7i85 I can only get Smart Serial channel 4 to detect anything.

I used the mill for a couple of hours today with my firmware in the pendant. I tried my best to cause some issues, but no disconnects from the dongle nor any other issues as far as I could tell. To be honest, I'm surprised that it works this well already.

I found a sticker with version information on the back on my pendant (underneath the rubber):
 
The top row is the firmware version and the bottom row the hardware version, I believe. And the RX should be the dongle, because there is a V09 marking on the main board (underneath the RF module).

And I attach a couple of photos from the dongle as well, in case somebody wants to compare. Not the best photos. I took them through the microscope some months ago. And right now I have a thousand wires connected for debugging, so not possible to take good photos at the moment.
 
 

Do you have field power connected to both 7i84's?
I would forget PNCConf for now. If you have the 7i92 communicating with LinuxCNC, then open the HAL show, and see if you have all the pins available on the various cards.
Cheers,
Mark