Re: [Emc-users] Slaved axis

2018-07-29 Thread John Dammeyer
That would make sense. Years ago, since my ELS has a spot for a CAN bus driver chip, I wrote a CANopen module for it that treated it simply as a display and keypad. Supported simple PDO messages with message #'s rather than strings to keep bus traffic to a minimum. So if you want to display

Re: [Emc-users] Slaved axis

2018-07-29 Thread andy pugh
On 29 July 2018 at 18:25, John Dammeyer wrote: > If I understand the code correctly it treats the display as if it's > connected via Ethernet to "localhost", "port 13666" so I'm not sure how the > interface is a Serial or USB. Possibly through a driver. I think that Matrix Orbital might

Re: [Emc-users] Slaved axis

2018-07-29 Thread John Dammeyer
Thanks. Interesting. Would definitely need some rewriting for a Beagle or Pi since the getStats() func is looking for "/dev/hda1", and "top" command expects something different for "cpu" and "mem". * The layout is for a 4 line by 20 character display. * Supported interfaces include Serial and

Re: [Emc-users] Slaved axis

2018-07-29 Thread andy pugh
On 29 July 2018 at 05:12, John Dammeyer wrote: > I'm still pondering over replacing my ELS project with a Beaglebone running > MachineKit so it can run G-Code but use the keypad and display from my > original ELS and duplicate the manual style of operation when needed. FWIW there used to be a