Re: [Emc-developers] EtherCAT

2019-03-26 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Chris Morley wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:59:18 + From: Chris Morley Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] EtherCAT I think adding docs would be a fine idea. Chris M Docs and perhaps some sample hal/ini files...

Re: [Emc-developers] EtherCAT

2019-03-26 Thread Chris Morley
I think adding docs would be a fine idea. Chris M From: andy pugh Sent: March 25, 2019 1:56 PM To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] EtherCAT Whilst I think we have decided that it is not possible to distribute an EtherCAT driver with LinuxCNC[1] it

Re: [Emc-developers] Update-ini script

2019-03-26 Thread Chris Morley
According to the note in 2.8 : http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/config/ini-homing.html#_home_sequence Not specifying the sequence at all will make it not respond to ALL Home Where as in 2.7 either not specifying it or setting it to -1 did the same. So it seems if you see -1 in a 2.7 config

Re: [Emc-developers] Homing robot arm differential joint [ was robot arm, free to a good home]

2019-03-26 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 08:05, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that will work. I need to move > both motors in the same direction to home the hinge part of the wrist. Then > I need to move the same motors in opposing directions to home the rotation of >

Re: [Emc-developers] Homing robot arm differential joint [ was robot arm, free to a good home]

2019-03-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that will work. I need to move both motors in the same direction to home the hinge part of the wrist. Then I need to move the same motors in opposing directions to home the rotation of the wrist. Only after both joints are homed can the motors be