I tried Machinekit fairly recently and managed to run GUI and control on
separate simulated machines but it was a little flaky. I don't know if I
had the most recent code as documentation is rather sparse. In my case I
want to run two GUIs on LinuxCNC. I want to run two monitors on my mill,
one on the main control console with Axis for general CNC use and one
smaller touch screen up close to the table with the three MPG handwheels
for manual use. It will have stuff like probing, mdi, setting offsets
and a few canned cycles aimed at manual machining. For the touch screen
a cheap Windows tablet with Linux installed will hopefully do the trick.
Nicklas, you may want to look at this page
<http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Running_Multiple_User_Interfaces>.
It briefly explains a few options to do what you want without major hacking.
I have been working on an open source project called CncRemote which is
trying to provide a standardized sockets based interface for machine
controls. The idea is to allow any CncRemote enabled controller to talk
to any CncRemote enabled GUI. It is currently very much in beta but I
have a basic LinuxCNC driver running with Mach3 and EdingCNC in the
pipeline. I have mainly been developing it to allow Scanything
<http://sheetcam.com/Scanything/index> to talk to both open source and
closed source controllers. The license is MPL which allows it to be used
with both commercial and GPL applications.
I originally chose 0MQ and protobuf for communications, which
coincidentally is the same way machineTalk works, but I had reliability
issues with 0MQ and ended up using plain sockets.
Currently I don't have a CncRemote GUI but many years ago I worked on a
GUI that was part of a driver I was developing for the ill-fated Gecko
GREX project. I am thinking of resurrecting that code as a demo
CncRemote GUI. This probably isn't that helpful for you as it is a
fairly long term project. CncRemote is under development as part of a
commercial product so I can justify spending time on it. The GUI is not
commercial so I can't spend a lot of time on it.
Les
On 20/07/2017 11:39, andy pugh wrote:
On 20 July 2017 at 03:18, Nicklas Karlsson <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote:
In github I found 112 repositories but quite little activity on machinekit fork
This is the main one:
https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit
It seems fairly active:
https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/pulse/monthly
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