On 11/02/2017 07:42 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote:
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?
Why do you want to restart Linuxcnc from within its own
GUI? Seems like you should be able to set up the
configuration once and then just keep using the same setup,
possibly with editing the resolution, axis limits and such.
For software generated steps, there is a setup wizard that
handles that. It is not run from within LinuxCNC, but is an
external program that writes the configs file set.
Jon
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