Byte 2 bot setup will not work.

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1 year 8 months ago #322380 by Skippy2024
I have the pi 5 16gb with parallel port and 5 axis board off the byte to bot site with DM 556 driver and 4 amp strippers set up as the byte to bot video. Can't get it to work picture of set up and faults. 

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1 year 8 months ago #322383 by unknown
If you are using the byte to bot supplied files they won't work .
The images you supplied aren't really readable.
What I would suggest is read the docs for the hal_gpio driver and modify your files to suit.
Then loudly complain to byte2bot their files are useless for the raspberry pi .
Also when asking for help attaching your hal & ini files is most helpful.
Also attaching the error files rather than photos of the screen helps as well.

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1 year 8 months ago #322421 by Skippy2024
Thank you for the response.  Here are the hal&ini file.

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1 year 8 months ago #322426 by unknown
Every reference to PINxx should be GPIOxx, which you see by reading the docs for hal_gpio.
If you need to use GPIO7 and GPIO8 you will need to disable SPI in /boot/broadcom/config.txt.
Also you may have to play around with the base thread to prevent rt errors.

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers/hal_gpio.html

Also loudly complain to byte2bot.

In the RPi sticky there is some info regarding hal_gpio and one or 2 other threads with working examples, not directly related to byte2bot but enough to see how it should work.

The Devs and other community members put hard work into the docs.

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1 year 8 months ago #322813 by 109jb
I thought I would reply here as I too bought a Byte2Bot parallel hat. I eventually did get it working, but in hindsight I believe I made a mistake purchasing this. While it does work for its intended purpose once you figure out the setup, it is limited to 12 outputs and 5 inputs. What I should have done is purchase a level shifting GPIO breakout hat, which give 26 pins of I/O and each pin can be either input or output. As my particular machine is set up, I have used all of the 5 inputs on the byte2bot board, but could use some more. I believe a level shifting breakout board would have been more useful for me.

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