Re: [Emc-developers] CANopen syntax for configuration file(s) for mapping and initialization

2024-06-19 Thread John Morris
devices in the future. It would be pretty easy to add support for a new device, including the CiA301 and optional CiA402 features, and replace the EtherCAT interface with CAN bus instead. John [1]: https://gitlab.com/etherlab.org/ethercat [2]: https://github.com/tormach/hw_device_mgr

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new show stopper

2024-03-07 Thread John Allwine
Lines 188-190 are missing calls. On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 10:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > On 3/7/24 12:12, andy pugh wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 16:44, gene heskett wrote: > > > >>> o > >>> > >>> It needs to be > >>> > >>> o CALL > >>> > >> What line Andy, call is there in line 160 of the

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new show stopper

2024-03-07 Thread John Allwine
It looks like you’re missing a few calls in this loop. Not sure if that’s your problem, but it’s a place to start: o7 do o o (see what its got) o (move to it) (put drill hole call here) #50 = [#50 +1] o7 while [#50 le 7] > On Mar 6, 2024, at 5:28 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/6/24

Re: [Emc-developers] I'll bite. array's don't work write only

2024-03-03 Thread John Allwine
and it will do what you want. If your variable goes out of scope, though, before printing it then it won’t show anything in the variable. > On Mar 3, 2024, at 4:56 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/3/24 17:33, John Allwine wrote: >> Store it in another variable first: >> # =

Re: [Emc-developers] I'll bite. array's don't work write only

2024-03-03 Thread John Allwine
Store it in another variable first: # = #[200+#50] ;debug,# > On Mar 3, 2024, at 2:55 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > preset > #50=0 > #[200+#50]= random decimal value, like 777.7 > the above syntax does not report any error > in mdi line > (debug, #200) returns 777.7 > (debug, #[200+#50]) > gets

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-28 Thread John Thornton
I'm using Debian with the Mate desktop and I use the TraditionalOk theme. It's not perfect but better than the rest. JT On 2/28/2024 5:59 AM, gene heskett wrote: On 2/28/24 06:27, John Thornton wrote: That's probably the OS theme doing that. I ran into that with Debian a few years ago

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-28 Thread John Thornton
That's probably the OS theme doing that. I ran into that with Debian a few years ago the theme updated then windows not in focus became very dim. It was so annoying I searched for a new theme that didn't do that. JT On 2/27/24 19:12, gene heskett wrote: Hey guys; Genuine show stopper here at

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC-aware chat bot

2024-02-03 Thread John Thornton
Could be a good idea but I don't "sign up" for much. JT On 2/2/24 17:40, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: Hello, I created a GPT as an extension of chatGPT 4 that users of chatGPT 4 (it still costs a bit) can give a try at https://chat.openai.com/g/g-vfeQnX43z-linuxcnc-assistant If

[Emc-developers] interpreter errors and motion

2023-10-20 Thread John Allwine
behavior? -John ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread John Allwine
That’s correct. We are using MachineKit-HAL for its instantiable components and better HAL Python bindings. Hopefully that functionality could make its way back into LinuxCNC at some point. > On Oct 11, 2023, at 5:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 12:08, John Allwi

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread John Allwine
Seems like there could be a significant performance hit for 32 bit architectures. We don’t directly use LinuxCNC, but EMCApplication is a shallow fork of LinuxCNC that will occasionally pull from upstream. We use EMCApplication on the BeagleBone Black, which is a 32 bit architecture and is

Re: [Emc-developers] Forum Is Slow

2023-09-03 Thread John Thornton
I just updated a few packages and rebooted, did that help you? JT On 9/2/2023 6:55 PM, Phill Carter via Emc-developers wrote: Is someone on this list able to reboot the forum, it is slow to the point of being unusable.

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc-dev

2023-05-07 Thread John Thornton
Add them to linuxcnc-uspadce-dev.install I think is all you have to do. JT On 5/6/23 20:01, andy pugh wrote: I just added a system to create modbus drivers for mesa cards to 2.9 As things stand it doesn't do anything for installed LinuxCNC except add docs. The next step is to add the various

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-01 Thread John Allwine
I used VLC to view them. > On May 1, 2023, at 5:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: >> https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv >> https:

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-01 Thread John Allwine
Hi everyone, Jon sent them over to me and I've uploaded them here: https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson.wmv https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/stevenson2.wmv I don't think this is a great permanent spot for them, but I imagine they can sit here for a while. -John On Wed, Apr

[Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-04-26 Thread John Allwine
, https://demos.pentamachine.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc-5-axis.jpg). Does anyone have that? Thanks! -John ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-21 Thread John Allwine
I’ve got a Pocket NC packed up. I have stuff for making knot mandrels with it for tying these: https://www.allwinedesigns.com/blog/globe-knot-tutorial > On Apr 21, 2023, at 8:09 AM, John Thornton wrote: > > On the linuxcnc-devel channel rene-dev5 said 9-10 yesterday > > JT >

Re: [Emc-developers] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-21 Thread John Thornton
On the linuxcnc-devel channel rene-dev5 said 9-10 yesterday JT On 4/21/2023 8:14 AM, Ed wrote: On 3/20/23 12:21 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Will people who plan to attend (weekend of April 22-23) please confirm? I left a message here earlier and plan to attend. I see the address listed on the

[Emc-developers] Forum

2023-04-14 Thread John Thornton
For some reason the forum disk usage went from 61% on 4/13 at 8am to 95% I can't figure out what happened or how to fix it. The forum seems to be up and down now. Help JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-12 Thread John Allwine
of the features we use in EMCApplication and MachineKit-HAL were implemented by Tormach developers. As for the tool changer, keep an eye out for our next machine, the Solo. Definitely a step up in every way. Here’s John Saunders of NYC CNC coverage of it at IMTS last year: https://m.youtube.com

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-07 Thread John Allwine
I could bring a Pocket NC if anyone is interested in poking around on it: https://www.pentamachine.com/pocket-nc On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 9:23 AM Jon Elson wrote: > Does anyone have agenda items for the meeting? > > I will be glad to present my servo tuning demo, but that is > all I have. > >

Re: [Emc-developers] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-03-22 Thread John Figie
I will plan on attending as well but will be mostly listening and try not to be too distracting. :-) John Figie On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 5:51 PM wrote: > On 2023-03-21 09:23, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > On 3/20/23 11:21, Jon Elson wrote: > >> Will people who plan to attend

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-03-20 Thread John Allwine
I'll be there! I'm new to this list, so for those that don't know me, I'm the lead software engineer at Penta Machine (we make the Pocket NC). Looking forward to meeting you all. On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:23 AM Jon Elson wrote: > > Will people who plan to attend (weekend of April 22-23) >

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-10 Thread John Thornton
Searching for "linuxcnc go reference" lands me on a forum page where the user said go reference then something about reference the axis so I'm thinking it's homing the axis. The Axis sim is too clever and does a bunch of moves to simulate a real machine homing but that may be masking the

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-10 Thread John Thornton
Any clue what "go reference" means? JT On 12/10/2022 12:53 PM, andy pugh wrote: The original corresponent has tried the latest Master and says. (Three plane test spiral code) "is good executed, but if start linuxcnc and go reference, after reference is finisch and in mdi start g2 x0y0z-1 j4

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Turned out I needed to install libpython3.11-dev on debian 12 JT On 12/7/2022 3:52 PM, John Thornton wrote: dpkg-checkbuilddeps returns nothing so they are satisfied I attached the config.log On 12/7/2022 2:37 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/7/22 13:31, John Thornton wrote: I can

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
: On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 20:36, John Thornton wrote: I can confirm the bug is in the 2.9 branch that is currently in Debian, I'm unable to build a RIP on 2.9 to see if it's still there as I get metric or imperial config? Did you run the test command in G20 or G21? NO_FORCE_HOMING? What CPU

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
dpkg-checkbuilddeps returns nothing so they are satisfied I attached the config.log On 12/7/2022 2:37 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/7/22 13:31, John Thornton wrote: I can confirm the bug is in the 2.9 branch that is currently in Debian, I'm unable to build a RIP on 2.9 to see if it's

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Thanks Seb, missing a bunch of build dependencies... trying to multi-task and make parts at the same time so I get distracted and forget the stuff I should know by heart now. JT On 12/7/2022 2:37 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/7/22 13:31, John Thornton wrote: I can confirm the bug

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Thanks Seb, missing a bunch of build dependencies... trying to multi-task and make parts at the same time so I get distracted and forget the stuff I should know by heart now. JT On 12/7/2022 2:37 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/7/22 13:31, John Thornton wrote: I can confirm the bug

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
installed in some non-standard library path. Python 3 came installed with Debian 12... JT On 12/7/2022 12:55 PM, John Thornton wrote: Yes, it shows up in the preview when ran from the MDI, but if I try and repeat the move after a G0 Z0 I get the proper arc circle down to Z-2. If I start the Axis sim

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
and then repeat the arc move it works as expected so it's something to do when LinuxCNC makes the first move. Back to work for me. On 12/7/2022 8:38 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 14:31, John Thornton wrote: I can reproduce the problem in 2.9 with an Axis sim, the move shown

Re: [Emc-developers] Arc Bug, help needed.

2022-12-07 Thread John Thornton
I can reproduce the problem in 2.9 with an Axis sim, the move shown on the backport is Z only. I need to connect to a machine to test if the backport is what happens. I'll have to update my local copy to verify that I have the latest... but first work. JT On 12/7/2022 5:50 AM, andy pugh

Re: [Emc-developers] feed hold ?

2022-12-05 Thread John Thornton
Wait till you get my age... I'm 69 now. JT On 12/4/2022 5:00 PM, Chris Morley wrote: lol thanks Phil. I hit 50 and can only remember half of anything :) Chris From: Phill Carter Sent: December 4, 2022 10:48 PM To: linuxcnc-developers Subject: Re:

[Emc-developers] Buildbot

2022-11-15 Thread John Thornton
Seb, I've been working with buildbot 3.6.1 and have it building a deb for me. Next task for me is to figure out how to setup a remote builder. On 11/15/2022 12:02 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 11/14/22 18:43, m...@mattshaver.com wrote: On 2022-11-14 15:54, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc.org/dists

2022-11-15 Thread John Thornton
Andy has tried to help but I still don't have sftp to http://linuxcnc.org/dists/ , can anyone help? JT On 11/14/2022 8:49 AM, John Thornton wrote: If someone can supply me with the credentials for http://linuxcnc.org/dists/ I can build debs and upload them via sftp for the ones

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9 Release Manager Required.

2022-11-14 Thread John Thornton
: Hello Andy, Well, at least you're not alone to feel ignored sometimes... Could someone explain me how relocating the buildbot on someone's machine can be better for the project than migrating it to GitHub Actions, build farm and package hoster ? Don't get me wrong John and Rod, I very much

[Emc-developers] linuxcnc.org/dists

2022-11-14 Thread John Thornton
If someone can supply me with the credentials for http://linuxcnc.org/dists/ I can build debs and upload them via sftp for the ones that the current buildbot does not create. JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9 Release Manager Required.

2022-11-13 Thread John Thornton
I've been putzing around with buildbot and just now have it showing changes in a scratch github repo. Now to make it build a deb... JT On 11/13/2022 3:43 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 at 21:15, Bari wrote: Rod, Have you had a chance to check with your web host on getting a

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9 Release Manager Required.

2022-11-12 Thread John Thornton
Seems limiting to me The autobuilder network is a Debian development that manages package compilations for all the architectures Debian currently supports <https://www.debian.org/ports/>. JT On 11/12/2022 4:37 PM, Rod Webster wrote: John, I wonder if any buildbot could be

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9 Release Manager Required.

2022-11-12 Thread John Thornton
Andy, Thanks for everything you have done. I'm like you and don't have the keys or know the process either... Now that I have unlimited Internet access I could setup a buildbot but like you I lack the expertise or know of a tutorial. It might be something for me to attempt in between adding

Re: [Emc-developers] Possible 2.8.4 release this weekend

2022-09-17 Thread John Thornton
I'm all for it, not only does it solve the card availability issue it will be a good reason to used Debian 10 with the 4.x kernel which does not have the issues that the 5.x kernel has with Ethernet cards. JT On 9/17/2022 3:39 AM, andy pugh wrote: I think that the pieces are in place for a

Re: [Emc-developers] Driver changes in a stable branch?

2022-08-31 Thread John Thornton
t;3 took place) Rob On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 01:04, John Thornton wrote: Yes, I feel that the outm only needs to be put in 2.8.4 to solve the immediate problem of board availability. Currently only Debian unstable has the 7i96S and I sure most users would rather use a stable OS on their machi

Re: [Emc-developers] Driver changes in a stable branch?

2022-08-30 Thread John Thornton
Yes, I feel that the outm only needs to be put in 2.8.4 to solve the immediate problem of board availability. Currently only Debian unstable has the 7i96S and I sure most users would rather use a stable OS on their machines. JT On 8/30/2022 4:09 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at

Re: [Emc-developers] New Users Blocked

2022-06-16 Thread John Thornton
I managed to find the right page and button and upgraded Community Builder. I'm still facing a public ssh key issue somehow my public ssh key is messed up and without the root password I can't fix it or do low level maintenance on the forum OS. JT On 6/15/2022 1:51 PM, Jeff Epler wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] Using `main` instead of `master` branch

2021-07-29 Thread John Thornton
I wonder why github even wants to change it? I think that's dumb... On 7/29/2021 12:03 PM, Johannes Fassotte wrote: I really wish that everyone would concentrate on improving the software instead of worrying about the name of the version that most consider as being the master. It is master

Re: [Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit

2021-06-30 Thread John Thornton
Been so long since I programmed in Gtk I don't remember, but that is a good reason to have one :) JT On 6/30/2021 3:28 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Gtk Glade requires a limit. Original message From: John Thornton Date: 2021-06-30 1:09 p.m. (GMT-08:00) To: emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit

2021-06-30 Thread John Thornton
Timing Limit Yes... what limit do you think is reasonable? Chris I would think 50 usec would be ok for the slowest hardware The stepgen firmware has a limit of ~164 usec for all timings Original message From: John Date: 2021-06-30 7:49 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit

2021-06-30 Thread John Thornton
From: John Date: 2021-06-30 7:49 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit Hi Chris, Can you increase the step timing to > 12,000? "When I was using the parallel port, the step and hold were 12000 and 3500. The softwa

Re: [Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit

2021-06-30 Thread John Thornton
think is reasonable? Chris I would think 50 usec would be ok for the slowest hardware The stepgen firmware has a limit of ~164 usec for all timings Original message From: John Date: 2021-06-30 7:49 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc

[Emc-developers] Pncconf Step Timing Limit

2021-06-30 Thread John
Hi Chris, Can you increase the step timing to > 12,000? "When I was using the parallel port, the step and hold were 12000 and 3500.  The software maxes this out at 1 for the 7i92 so I used that instead of 12000. X axis will move, but NOT very smoothly.  Y and Z do not move at all. All

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash Versions

2021-06-22 Thread John Thornton
I used to include the mesaflash binary with my configuration tools until it was finally moved to the linuxcnc repository. JT On 6/22/2021 6:44 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 01:17, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Who is in charge of Mesaflash releasing? Does the buildbot make

Re: [Emc-developers] GWiz Wizard

2021-06-07 Thread John Thornton
it are unpredictable. JT On 6/7/2021 5:04 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 23:35, John Thornton wrote: I noticed that the GWiz Wizard has not been touched for 12 years and seems to be unfinished. Should we depreciate that from master and remove it from the documents? Is it actually

Re: [Emc-developers] GWiz Wizard

2021-06-04 Thread John Thornton
Kenneth Lerman is the author. I've not seen him around, but have not looked real hard. JT On 6/4/2021 5:59 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 23:35, John Thornton wrote: I noticed that the GWiz Wizard has not been touched for 12 years and seems to be unfinished. Should we

[Emc-developers] GWiz Wizard

2021-06-04 Thread John Thornton
I noticed that the GWiz Wizard has not been touched for 12 years and seems to be unfinished. Should we depreciate that from master and remove it from the documents? JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc-dev dependencies

2021-05-23 Thread John Morris
a source package's build dependencies; for LinuxCNC, maybe: sudo apt-get install devscripts debian/configure uspace mk-build-deps -irs sudo Or if you have the LinuxCNC apt repos configured anyway: apt-get build-dep linuxcnc John On 5/23/21 5:19 PM, andy pugh wrote: Is there a good reason

Re: [Emc-developers] at_pid

2021-05-08 Thread John
I was helping one of the guys on the IRC the other day to connect up a push button to the start I/O bit but don't know if he tested it or not... JT On 5/7/21 5:47 PM, andy pugh wrote: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/at_pid.9.html I have just remembered that, as far as I am aware,

Re: [Emc-developers] Indentation of subsections in the HTML man pages

2021-04-16 Thread John
For me 3 has way too much indent, a couple of spaces is enough to get the message across. JT On 4/16/21 12:17 PM, Hans Unzner wrote: Unfortunately the subsections (.SS) of the man pages are not treated as such when convertet to HTML. Just bold text. Especially the halui man page lacks

Re: [Emc-developers] 5 axis cutter compensation

2021-04-15 Thread John Thornton
Well it could be shortened to NEMC JT On 4/15/2021 12:08 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: now there is a mouthful On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:43 AM John Thornton wrote: I think the project should be named NIST Enhanced Machine Controller Second Generation JT On 4/15/2021 10:24 AM, Stuart

Re: [Emc-developers] 5 axis cutter compensation

2021-04-15 Thread John Thornton
I think the project should be named NIST Enhanced Machine Controller Second Generation JT On 4/15/2021 10:24 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Feral, I love it! Just think how LinuxCNC would be accepted if Android was called LinuxAndroid! Or we had LinuxWeb as the main term for the internet. How

Re: [Emc-developers] possible error in documentation

2021-04-12 Thread John
Thanks for finding that, I can fix that ASAP JT On 4/11/21 11:33 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Hi, I was reading the LinuxCNC gcode list. I noticed the G52 section example is G53. This may not be the intended G value. I would attempt to change it (if it is possible for me to do so) if I was sure

Re: [Emc-developers] iov2 Documents

2021-04-09 Thread John Thornton
Aye, we have been communicating about them. JT On 4/9/2021 1:57 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 19:06, John Thornton wrote: I'm working on the iov2 in the docs (not the man pages) just to let everyone know. Does Hans know? https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/1127

[Emc-developers] iov2 Documents

2021-04-09 Thread John Thornton
I'm working on the iov2 in the docs (not the man pages) just to let everyone know. JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

[Emc-developers] Building Documents on Dabian 10

2021-04-08 Thread John Thornton
Building documents in Debian 10 has been blocked by ImageMagick due to a security vulnerability that has been addressed in Ghostscript 9.24. However if you check the version of gs in Debian 10 it's past 9.2.4. john@d10cave:~$ gs --version 9.27 Seems that ImageMagick failed to correct

Re: [Emc-developers] Iocontrol_v2

2021-04-02 Thread John Thornton
Ok I've resolved my issues with old notes and have cloned LinuxCNC and my only question is what branch to add this information to? JT On 4/1/2021 5:24 AM, andy pugh wrote: We have had iocintrol_v2 available for a long time, but the documentation does not dscribe the difference very well.

Re: [Emc-developers] Iocontrol_v2

2021-04-02 Thread John
no longer can clone with push rights... maybe I just forgot how. JT On 4/1/21 12:39 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:12, John wrote: Looks like the new version has docs http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/tooldatabase/tooldatabase.html Just to clarify, "Toold

Re: [Emc-developers] Iocontrol_v2

2021-04-01 Thread John
Looks like the new version has docs http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/tooldatabase/tooldatabase.html JT On 4/1/21 5:24 AM, andy pugh wrote: We have had iocintrol_v2 available for a long time, but the documentation does not dscribe the difference very well. There is documentation, on the

Re: [Emc-developers] Iocontrol_v2

2021-04-01 Thread John
I agree it should be in the docs if it's part of LinuxCNC. Unless I'm missing something with my quick scan of the wiki and the sample ini file this seems to only add support for tool changers that provide feedback. Which is a good thing but the configuration tools AFAIK don't support a tool

Re: [Emc-developers] Iocontrol_v2

2021-04-01 Thread John
WOW, Dewey added tool table database to ioControl_V2.cc https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/2dbb2f640fb87e7fe40c6d83cee381f8643233be#diff-6ae0a0db16051707fa75a5b511194a81291d1f59df7b291cab793c15bf180ca0 This commit refactors internal tool data handling to: 1) Update and consolidate

Re: [Emc-developers] issues with 2.8.0-pre1

2021-02-04 Thread John Thornton
If you could list the items that are not correct with the corrected information I can work on them. I searched for tons of places but nothing showed up... also if your looking at the html documents online the url would help me find the document with the error much faster. Like this:

Re: [Emc-developers] QT Licensing and Accounts

2021-01-13 Thread John Thornton
I wonder how that filters down to PyQt which we use if at all? It does sound like a bait and switch thing... From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages AFAIK you don't need any Qt binary packages to use PyQt5

Re: [Emc-developers] QT Licensing and Accounts

2021-01-13 Thread John Thornton
I went on the freenode #pyqt channel and asked about this and they didn't seem to think there was an issue with pyqt, a chap with a handle of altendky is who I talked to. And that was last February... JT On 1/13/2021 12:55 PM, andy pugh wrote: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

Re: [Emc-developers] message rejected

2020-11-25 Thread John
2.8 or Master? I'll have to update the configuration to 2.8> I've never made a pull request but willing to give it a shot to see if I can figure it out. JT On 11/24/20 1:29 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 20:59, John Thornton wrote: https://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/examples.h

Re: [Emc-developers] message rejected

2020-11-23 Thread John Thornton
https://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/examples.html JT On 11/23/2020 9:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 November 2020 08:48:17 andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 00:00, Gene Heskett wrote: Andy, I tried to send your a copy 2k copy of align.zi Can you just explain what it is and where

Re: [Emc-developers] Offline Sphinx HTML docs in project

2020-11-23 Thread John
Did you remove the extracted docs from linuxcnc for now? JT On 11/21/20 6:10 PM, Chris Morley wrote: John: here was the builtbot error: http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/3303.dsc-stretch-rtpreempt/builds/1819/steps/shell/logs/stdio Here is Jim's repo of the docs: https

Re: [Emc-developers] Offline Sphinx HTML docs in project

2020-11-22 Thread John
Interesting errors, not sure what to make of them. I'll have to do a pull and see what I get. We do have one html that gets installed in /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/ so not sure why we can't have the rest of the html documents in there. JT On 11/21/20 6:10 PM, Chris Morley wrote: John: here

Re: [Emc-developers] Offline Sphinx HTML docs in project

2020-11-21 Thread John
I use Sphinx all the time but usually just build the HTML and upload that from my PC. We have hmm one HTML file IIRC that is not built by the buildbot the quick reference. AFAIK, to have HTML offline you need to build a RIP. Did Jim just have the .rst files? Is that what broke the buildbot?

[Emc-developers] CNC Controller

2020-10-15 Thread John Thornton
It is not clear what your asking. It seems that starting a new thread would be more appropriate than hijacking a non-related thread. I will attempt to change the subject. You mention GUI and controller and your hardware runs on Linux. Are you looking for: A LinuxCNC GUI for your hardware? A

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Debian 10 Install

2020-09-25 Thread John
I just installed menulibre in Debian 10 and checked the g code quick reference and the categories listed are: Science X-CNC-REF JT On 9/25/20 7:33 AM, John wrote: I just checked the menu in Debian 10 and it's mate-menus version 1.20.2-1, can you check and see what menu Mint is using? JT

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Debian 10 Install

2020-09-25 Thread John
I just checked the menu in Debian 10 and it's mate-menus version 1.20.2-1, can you check and see what menu Mint is using? JT Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:30:45 +1000 From: Robert Murphy To: John

Re: [Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install

2020-09-25 Thread John
ve multiple copies of Mint. For reasons that make only sense to me. On 25/9/20 7:20 am, John Thornton wrote: Interesting that Mint Mate and Debian Mate are not the same... I officially give up on Debian 10 Mate and will see what else will work. I'll download all the Debian 10 iso's and try each one.

Re: [Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install

2020-09-24 Thread John Thornton
Interesting that Mint Mate and Debian Mate are not the same... I officially give up on Debian 10 Mate and will see what else will work. I'll download all the Debian 10 iso's and try each one. The only reason I use Mate is because years ago the rest of the choices were just plain ugly and hard

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-24 Thread John
I agree, I just installed LinuxCNC 2.8 on a fresh install of Debian 10 with the Mate desktop and all the menu items are in Other. I installed mozo so I could edit the menus in Mate and the CNC menu is not even there this time. JT On 9/23/20 2:48 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at

[Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install

2020-09-24 Thread John
I installed a fresh Debian 10 Mate and installed the RT kernel then removed the plain kernel. Following these instructions http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html#_installing_on_debian_buster_with_preempt_rt_kernel 8. Add the apt repository: echo deb

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-22 Thread John
in the right place, but it might have put them in the right menu. On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 13:34, John wrote: I tried editing /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/CNC.menu and changing X-CNC-DOC TO X_CNC with no change on Debian 9. I had Debian 10 working so could not test that. The documentation

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-22 Thread John
2020 12:45:29 +1000 From: Robert Murphy To: John I had a look at the desktop entries and changing from X-CNC-DOC to X_CNC in Categories put the shortcuts in the right place. This was on Mint MATE On 17/9/20 9:37 pm, John wrote: I right clicked on Applications selected Edit Menus

Re: [Emc-developers] Remove PDF Docs? (Was: DEB for linuxcnc HTML documentation)

2020-09-21 Thread John Thornton
I'm in favor of 5, build the Chinese docs separately from the rest of the docs with whatever tool works and keep the rest of the docs which use western characters in the same tool chain. JT On 9/21/2020 4:06 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 20:10, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: I've

Re: [Emc-developers] Wheezy install vs. editors

2020-09-18 Thread John
I use Pluma as well as other editors with no issue. Try to Save As and check the line endings to make sure they are not windoze. JT On 9/18/20 1:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote: One of my customers is having issues with editing hal files.  He says he is using the Wheezy iso install, and the only

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-17 Thread John
ere not visible until you toggle the check box. JT On 9/16/20 8:29 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 13:39, John wrote: searching for the same issue I found this blog dunno if it helps or not Not really, it describes what we already have. One possibility, can you hand-edit the Categ

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-16 Thread John
searching for the same issue I found this blog dunno if it helps or not https://eccentric.one/blog/linux/20181211-xdg_menu_for_local_installed_application_links.ecc JT On 9/16/20 7:35 AM, John wrote: This is my CNC.menu from this morning's install from buildbot http://www.freedesktop.org

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-16 Thread John
This is my CNC.menu from this morning's install from buildbot http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-1.0.dtd;>   Applications       CNC     linuxcnc-cnc.directory             X-CNC                 G-Code Quick-Reference         linuxcnc-ref.directory                 X-CNC-REF  

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-16 Thread John
john@d10cave:~$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key E0EE663E [sudo] password for john: Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.iAhPoqQBaI/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key E0EE663E gpg: key EF1B07FEE0EE663E: "LinuxCNC Buildbot " not changed

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-16 Thread John
john@d10cave:~$ cd emc john@d10cave:~/emc$ git branch * 2.8   master john@d10cave:~/emc$ git pull Already up to date. john@d10cave:~/emc$ debian/configure uspace successfully configured for 'uspace-Debian-10'-'uspace'.. john@d10cave:~/emc$ debuild -uc -us  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui ... john

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-16 Thread John
to make sure no files are left from last install john@d10cave:~/Downloads/Software/EMC$ dpkg -L linuxcnc-doc-en dpkg-query: package 'linuxcnc-doc-en' is not installed Checked /etc/xdg/menus, .local /usr/applications for any files left from last install john@d10cave:~/Downloads/Software/EMC

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
I downloaded http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/buster/2.8-rtpreempt/binary-amd64/linuxcnc-uspace_2.8.0_amd64.deb and installed it with sudo dpkg -i linuxcnc-uspace_2.8.0_amd64.deb No CNC menu and the menu items are in the Other menu. Then I installed with dpkg

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
In the past gdebi has been more successful at resolving dependencies On 9/15/20 7:30 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 13:32, John wrote: Is the released version a deb I can install with gdebi or are you talking about the linuxcnc-2.8.0-buster.iso? Why use gdebi? You should

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
Do you mean test this deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/buster/2.8-rtpreempt/binary-amd64/linuxcnc-uspace_2.8.0_amd64.deb JT On 9/15/20 6:46 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 12:28, John wrote: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pygtksourceview/python

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
-buster.iso? JT On 9/15/20 6:46 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 12:28, John wrote: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pygtksourceview/python-gtksourceview2_2.10.1-3_amd64.deb sudo gdebi python-gtksourceview2_2.10.1-3_amd64.deb This shouldn't be necessary, we

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
false Icon=linuxcncicon Icon[en_US]=linuxcncicon Name[en_US]=Documents Exec=/usr/bin/see /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/LinuxCNC_Documentation.pdf Name=Documents Hidden=true john@d10cave:~/.local/share/applications$ ls -l linuxcnc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 252 Sep 15 05:12 linuxcnc.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 john jo

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
I removed LinuxCNC with Synaptic and right clicked on Applications and removed all the CNC menus then did sudo apt clean sudo apt install linuxcnc-uspace Now no menu items show up anywhere. Shut down and started the PC back up and still no menu items Everything works from the terminal as

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