i have started using QtDragon_hd and need some help with my spindle

hello all after many years of geocarpy. i upgraded to linuxCNC 2.9.1 i all so switched to QtDragon_hd every thing works correctly as far as I can tell.  except for the spindle stuff.  The at speed light is instantly on.  There is no RPM reported. and I cannot change the speed.   I use the hy_vfd to control the spindle  I can see all the information in HAL show I seem to be a little lost on how to get it to work. i have looked over a few posts but have not seen what i am looking for.  


my vfd.hal file.  

Can you post the rest of your config files?

sure they are all most straight out of the stepcomf wizard. 

Any qtdragon pin names (such as in the vdf.hal file ) need to be call by POSTGUI_HALFILE
otherwise qtdragon might not of made the pins yet. you should have got error messages - maybe that's why you commented them out?

Start the spindle manually in qtdragon, then using halmeter can you check:
vfd.enable is true
spindle.0.forward or spindle.0.reverse is true
spindle.0.on is true
spindle.0.speed-out is getting a command number

Also do you still have the gmoccapy HAL code? are you using the same hardware? A reference to the vdf HAL code might help me.

finally, qtdragon's up_to_speed LED uses internal calculations to light based on spindle.0.speed-in and requested speed.
This can be changed to just work from an on/off state rather then internal calculations but let's not worry about that yet.

So this afternoon i moved all the qtdragon to the postgui_halfile.
and i got the power bar to work.
every thing works as it should.  when i run a file linuxCNC waits for the spindle to come to speed.  i just dont have any indication of the actual speed. 
i do have the files form my gmocapy install.

ind i think all the pins are correct.   

try adding this to postgui:

net spindle-speed-feedback => spindle.0.speed-out-rps => spindle.0.speed-in

ok now it reflects the set speed and not the actual speed.
it turns on and instantaneously reports the set speed

but that is a result.

Does vfd.spindle-speed-fb give RPM or RPS?
If it's RPS then you could use it:

net spindle-speed-fb <= vfd.spindle-speed-fb
net spindle-speed-fb => spindle.0.speed-in

Otherwise it would need to be scaled to RPS first

I am sorry i was not able to keep working on this. how ever i have had some time to get back to it today.

this does work! thank you for your time.

i had figured that i would need to scale the input. but i was not able to get any thing to show up on the rpm readout. But one step at a time.

i understand now that my problem is that i was trying to do every thing be for the post GUI hal file.
and that makes since to me now.

thanks you for your help.
i greatly appreciate it