Mesa Confguration Tool Update

I'm almost done with the ini4 branch after a lot of coding and re-coding to make the ini file so you can add comments and new key-value pairs and new sections and they will be preserved when you run mesact and save the configuration.

JT

I think I have the ini4 branch ready for testing if anyone can test I'd appreciate it.

github.com/jethornton/mesact/raw/ini4/mesact_0.7.4_amd64.deb

JT

The Mesa Configuration Tool updates:
Will not change anything in the ini file that the user added.
More informative board tools (read, flash, check, verify etc.)
German translation added back.
Rpi4 32 bit and 64 bit debs build by Tom L on the IRC
Support for the new Mesa 7i92T series of boards.
Support for multiple E-Stop chain.
Check for updates and download deb from the tool
Add up to 6 MDI comands
Add a Program Filter < Done working on this...
and many more new features.

JT

I decided to make the program filter just for adding more G code extensions to keep it simple. So what ever extension your post processor spits out you can accommodate it.

JT

Really great improvements especially those I requested
And also looks quite good with the German translation

But some things I noticed:
- Read HMID doesn't work with my Ubuntu system with Python 3.6. But not sure if this ever worked.
- 7i85 does not have Stepgens, so the area "StepGen Settings" might be irritating
- for 7i85 and 7i85 two tabs are shown under Axes: 7i85(s) and Card 1 - is Card 1 meant to be the other connector without daughter card?

HansU wrote:

Really great improvements especially those I requested
And also looks quite good with the German translation

But some things I noticed:
- Read HMID doesn't work with my Ubuntu system with Python 3.6. But not sure if this ever worked.
- 7i85 does not have Stepgens, so the area "StepGen Settings" might be irritating
- for 7i85 and 7i85 two tabs are shown under Axes: 7i85(s) and Card 1 - is Card 1 meant to be the other connector without daughter card?
 

Read HMID has always worked for me, what board are you trying to read?

I have a 7i85 and 7i85S and a proto of the 7i92TM so I can plug them in and see if I can figure out what pins they have. Any help you can give me on those two cards is appreciated as I'm a little fuzzy on those two.

JT

Card 0 and Card 1 were to enable configuration of 2 daughter cards, currently only one daughter card is supported. I see that in some cases Card 1 is not disabled which will lead to confusion so I'll look at that in the morning.

JT

Read HMID has always worked for me, what board are you trying to read?

5i25

I get this
And yes it's a Python thingy. The option 'text' was added to Popen in 3.7 or later.
Replacing "text=True" by "universal_newlines=True" resolves it for me, but not sure if the output is identical.

I have a 7i85 and 7i85S and a proto of the 7i92TM so I can plug them in and see if I can figure out what pins they have. Any help you can give me on those two cards is appreciated as I'm a little fuzzy on those two.

I only looked what the 5i25_7i85x2.bit firmware says. And there are only SS and encoder ports, no StepGens.

Python strikes again

Yep the 7i85 is not correct...

JT

Fixed so Python 3.6 can be used.
github.com/jethornton/mesact/commit/4194...60b3ab8760471fdc8926

JT