On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:53:15 +0100 Les Newell <les.new...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> I tried Machinekit fairly recently and managed to run GUI and control on > separate simulated machines but it was a little flaky. 0MQ is pretty new, NML have been there for a long while. > ... 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. Yes, have been thinking in on similar setups. > ... > I have been working on an open source project called CncRemote which is > trying to provide a standardized sockets based interface for machine > controls. There already is a stanardized sockets based interface called NML. I found this http://nairobi-embedded.org/060_linuxcnc_nml_config.html and currently try to figure out how to config. Raspberry or beagle bone might be an option for server. I found the nml files in configs/common and they have been there all the time. > ... > 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. That sound bad. I have not read protocol used for 0MQ yet. Something wrong with NML? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
