Re: [Emc-users] Encoder supply voltage

2017-07-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.07.17 08:39, dave wrote: > A few weeks ago when I was having motion problems someone suggested I check > the supply voltage > to the encoder. It turns out to be 4.8 V. The power supply was an 85 w pico > , the little card that plugs > into the 24 pin power connector. Thinking that maybe I

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication --> Raspberry

2017-07-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/20/2017 07:19 AM, Les Newell wrote: From what I research I have done the Raspberry is more than a little problematic. The Beagle Bone seems to be the board of choice for Machinekit. I looked into this and came to the conclusion it is too much work for no real gain. You can get small

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/20/2017 07:14 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:53:15 +0100 Les Newell 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

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
On Thursday, July 20, 2017, 7:24:37 AM MDT, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 20 July 2017 03:41:17 Chris Albertson wrote: > Gene, > > Try h, j, k, l keys if the arrow keys don't work.    VI was created > LONG ago back when arrow keys were a luxury item.  The old "hjkl" >

[Emc-users] gladevcp (bug)

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
My gladevcp would lock in som versions branches, old version from June the last year seems OK. I have discovered by inserting a print and a small delay time.sleep(0.01) in the python file hal_glib.py the glade panel partly work, toggle buttons seems fine, there may be some reaction from spin

[Emc-users] State old, tooltable python traceback

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
I get a traceback in hal_glib.py then using gladevcp: File "/home/karlnick/Prog/linuxcnc-reverse-run-2.7/linuxcnc-reverse-run-2.7/lib/python/gladevcp/hal_glib.py", line 143, in update if not state_old: File

Re: [Emc-users] axis.tcl MAX_JOINTS

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
It work in old version, this is development version and I actually think it have bugs. On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:05:43 -0500 Chris Radek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > I have problem running development version of linuxcnc, there

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder supply voltage

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> A few weeks ago when I was having motion problems someone suggested I > check the supply voltage > to the encoder. It turns out to be 4.8 V. The power supply was an 85 w > pico , the little card that plugs > into the 24 pin power connector. Thinking that maybe I could do better > with a

Re: [Emc-users] axis.tcl MAX_JOINTS

2017-07-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > I have problem running development version of linuxcnc, there is > complaint about the MAX_JOINTS variable in file axis.tcl, anybody > have any idea? You probably have a problem with your configuration. If you would like help

[Emc-users] Encoder supply voltage

2017-07-20 Thread dave
A few weeks ago when I was having motion problems someone suggested I check the supply voltage to the encoder. It turns out to be 4.8 V. The power supply was an 85 w pico , the little card that plugs into the 24 pin power connector. Thinking that maybe I could do better with a standard power

[Emc-users] axis.tcl MAX_JOINTS

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
I have problem running development version of linuxcnc, there is complaint about the MAX_JOINTS variable in file axis.tcl, anybody have any idea? -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:54:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 20 July 2017 07:45:38 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > On 20.07.17 13:18, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > > Here http://nairobi-embedded.org/060_linuxcnc_nml_config.html I > > > found someone who seems to know

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread dave
On 07/20/2017 05:28 AM, Les Newell wrote: There already is a stanardized sockets based interface called NML. Standardized for LinuxCNC but it is not a generic CNC interface. It is also licensed GPL2 which is a problem if you want to use it with closed source controllers such as Mach3,

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 July 2017 08:02:03 Trent Hejazi wrote: > try to use the finest thread pitch you can tap for on the cat head > bolts. it will make centering the barrel easier. For thread strength in 1/8" thick alu, I have 8 or 10mm in mind. At 10mm, I may have room for the internal threading

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 July 2017 07:45:38 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 20.07.17 13:18, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > Here http://nairobi-embedded.org/060_linuxcnc_nml_config.html I > > found someone who seems to know what it's all about and mention > > v.2.8.0~pre1 which is the latest development version.

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 July 2017 05:09:36 andy pugh wrote: > On 20 July 2017 at 05:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Measuring the barrel, I'll > > need to round up some 2" ID pipe about 11" long with 1/4" walls to > > make that cat head. > > That seems rather long. > Is the spindle bore

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 July 2017 03:41:17 Chris Albertson wrote: > Gene, > > Try h, j, k, l keys if the arrow keys don't work.VI was created > LONG ago back when arrow keys were a luxury item. The old "hjkl" > still should work for you. > I'll see if I can remember to give them a try. > It is un

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Les Newell
There already is a stanardized sockets based interface called NML. Standardized for LinuxCNC but it is not a generic CNC interface. It is also licensed GPL2 which is a problem if you want to use it with closed source controllers such as Mach3, Eding CNC, UCCNC, PoKeys etc. That sound

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication --> Raspberry

2017-07-20 Thread Les Newell
From what I research I have done the Raspberry is more than a little problematic. The Beagle Bone seems to be the board of choice for Machinekit. I looked into this and came to the conclusion it is too much work for no real gain. You can get small Intel based boxes pretty cheap these days. I/O

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:53:15 +0100 Les Newell 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 >

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Trent Hejazi
try to use the finest thread pitch you can tap for on the cat head bolts. it will make centering the barrel easier. On Jul 19, 2017 11:25 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: > Greetings all; I am being attacked by UPS and USPS today. > I got the metal I'd ordered today, a 1/4",

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication --> Raspberry

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> > Here http://nairobi-embedded.org/060_linuxcnc_nml_config.html I found > > someone who seems to know what it's all about and mention v.2.8.0~pre1 > > which is the latest development version. > > > > He seems to have the same idea as me, citation below: "Remote > > connections are especially

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Les Newell
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,

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.07.17 13:18, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > Here http://nairobi-embedded.org/060_linuxcnc_nml_config.html I found > someone who seems to know what it's all about and mention v.2.8.0~pre1 > which is the latest development version. > > He seems to have the same idea as me, citation below: "Remote

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 July 2017 at 12:18, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > He seems to have the same idea as me, citation below: > "Remote connections are especially useful in setups where EMCSERVER and the > core LinuxCNC modules (i.e. TASK, and the hard realtime motion control and >

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> > 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 Yes it does, machinekod was less active. I heard

Re: [Emc-users] NML communication

2017-07-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 July 2017 at 03:18, Nicklas Karlsson 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:

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on arm

2017-07-20 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:54:56 -0500 Jeff Epler wrote: > I dared myself to fix nml-over-tcp, and got it working this evening. > There are still no working sample configs (I think there's something > buggy in configs/common/{client,server}.nml) but on my local machine the >

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 July 2017 at 05:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > Measuring the barrel, I'll > need to round up some 2" ID pipe about 11" long with 1/4" walls to make > that cat head. That seems rather long. Is the spindle bore big enough to pass the barrel down it and use a second 4-bolt

Re: [Emc-users] Progress, if I spell it right

2017-07-20 Thread Chris Albertson
Gene, Try h, j, k, l keys if the arrow keys don't work.VI was created LONG ago back when arrow keys were a luxury item. The old "hjkl" still should work for you. It is un intuitive at first then you get into it and it is faster than using arrow keys because you don't need to move your hand