HI
Im having problems with some custom Mcodes.
I intend using a custom M code to switch on a signal that initiates the pallet change sequence (classicladder). The idea is that i want a signal "rem-pallet-A" switched on, then waits for a signal "pallet-A-Removed" to become true before exiting, or exits after a timeout.
I wrote the bash scripts and tested them in the Axis_mm sim by adding the correct path to DISPLAY and RS274NGC sections as below.
It works perfectly in the sim, but when i copied the script to my machine configs folder and added the paths to my machine .ini file, it doesnt work. There are no errors reported when i call M100 from MDI and the signals doesnt change state. Running LCNC from a terminal doesnt report anything usefull either....just something like " main loop took 0.xxx seconds"
Tested this with a simple M code that is just "echo running", but this doesnt work either. From previous experience, if the paths are wrong, LCNC will report that there is no such M code, in this case nothing
Not sure how to look for the issue in absence of error messages, any guidance would be appreceated
[DISPLAY]
PROGRAM_PREFIX = /home/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/nc_files:/home/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis
[RS274NGC]
SUBROUTINE_PATH = /home/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis
USER_M_PATH = /home/linuxcnc/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis
And the Mcode script is:
#!/bin/bash
A=0
CNT=0
halcmd sets change-pallet true
until [ "$A" = TRUE ]; do
A=$(halcmd gets pallet-changed)
sleep 0.5
let CNT=CNT+1
if [ "$CNT" = 10 ]; then
halcmd sets pallet-change-timeout-alarm TRUE
halcmd setp change-pallet false
sleep 1
halcmd sets pallet-change-timeout-alarm FALSE
exit 0
elif [ "$A" = TRUE ]; then
sleep 1
halcmd sets change-pallet false
echo "changed"
fi
done
exit 0
