Hmmm. Has that been reported with the BeagleBone install?
What I meant is that in porting the change across it would be very easy
to introduce bugs. LinuxCNC and Machinekit have diverged since they were
forked so it's not just a drop in replacement.
Bugs that lay in wait for months or years can happen in any software. I
experienced one in LinuxCNC that came terrifyingly close to stuffing the
cutter into the table of my mill at full feed rate. It was only
triggered when running certain code combined with using a rarely used
feature and pressing pause at the right moment. The bug has now been
fixed. I've been using LCNC for many years and I think that was the only
uncommanded move I've ever seen that wasn't user error or a hardware issue.
Perhaps what's needed is the work to make the MESA boards function with the
BeagleBone. Then it's a plug and play change with no large amounts of physical
hardware to move around. Like Sam does hanging it off the back of the monitor.
How many Bone users are out there that want to run LinuxCNC? The only
advantage the Bone has over the cheaper and more easily available Pi is
the PRU stepgen. Unless someone volunteers to do the work it's not going
to get done.
At the moment I'm using dual boot to come up with a model for moving from an
old WIN-XP MACH3 solution up to a LinuxCNC solution. I recall someone
mentioned there was a module for adding offsets screen. But I don’t remember
how. In MACH this is very handy. See attached photo if it comes through.
Do you just want the offset display? Axis has the option to show
offsets. If you want the edge finder stuff this may help
<https://github.com/verser-git/probe_screen_v2>
Les
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