On 6 June 2015 at 00:31, Sven Wesley <svenne.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Letting the box, BBB or whatever you like > controlling the machine and running the GUI somewhere else is pretty > obvious to me.
It doesn't have to be an either/or. I have mentioned this before, but it's a useful thing to do. Even with the machine controller and GUI local to the machine, you can still open a remote HAL session. Quite often with a long job I will set the machine going in the workshop then go back indoors to do something else. ssh -Y andypugh@mill.local opens a remote terminal session to that machine. the -Y enables X-forwarding. (-X might be more obvious, and might work for you) halcmd -kf opens a remote HAL session. loadusr halmeter -s pin motion.program-line opens a little window on the machine I am sitting at (typically my Mac in the living room) that goes to 0 when waiting for a tool change, or finished, and increments regularly if things are going well. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
