I do a lot of upgrades to Chinese routers from their controller to
Mach3. I have been using an Atom type mother board for the last five
years together with a detuned Windows XP installation. It is always a
parallel port driver installation.
I am finding it more and more difficult to get motherboards that will
support XP and today my supplier warned me that the motherboards of the
future will not install XP at all.
The reason that I install Mach3 with a parallel breakout is purely
because it is so easy to do and my customers do not need to learn linux.
Now I am thinking that the time has maybe come to do a Mach replacement
controller that will be just as easy but running linuxcnc. If I use
Gmoccapy for instance and add a page or two that can edit a
configuration similar to what one does in Mach, then there might be less
resistance to using linuxcnc.
So I would imagine that there will be a matrix of pins and signals that
could be configured from within the gui and a standard INI file with
parameters for calibration of motor parameters and others.
Will it be possible to reload or restart linuxcnc from inside the gui
and more so, what do the gurus think of such and idea? Is it at all
feasible?
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Regards / Groete
Marius D. Liebenberg
+27 82 698 3251
+27 12 743 6064
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