Is there a way to keep track of overall machine hours/distance travelled?

Hello,

I wonder whether there's a way to keep track of time and/or distance, not per job, but overall, like mileage on a car.

I'd like to keep track of it, mostly to implement a regular greasing schedule.

TIA

It's certainly been done, but I don't know of a built-in way.

This is part of a possible solution:
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/man/man9/time.9.html

Though I think I would use a simple Python HAL component connected to halui.program.is-running and spindle.0.on to count program hours and spindle hours.

This would need to save data to file on shutdown, then load the data back in on startup.

It probably should be a built-in feature.

Yes there is. I have a handy timer on my setting page in gmoccapy just for this. I'm away from my machine and computer at the moment but I can look it up once I'm back in the shop if needed.

We have done something like this here: forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/40709-gmocappy-clock?start=50

(scroll down to the last post)

Here is also a solution for tracking machine hours with axis:
forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...el-distance-for-axes

Sure, you can embed the VCP wherever you want.