Re: [Emc-users] Preferred way to slave multiple QTVCP pushbuttons?

2024-07-13 Thread Chris Morley
In Qtvcp, if the button is an action button that reacts to linuxcnc's status, such as estop or pause, then having multiple buttons will work as you wish without doing anything special. If the button is setting a HAL pin, then the buttons will not stay in sync with each other. You could sync the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.9.3 has been released

2024-07-13 Thread Chris Albertson
If the old Lenovo PC has ahard drive, or better yet an SSD inside,then it will run much better then the Pi4 that is runniong off an SD card. Those cards a re very slow. If you want to upgrade the hardware replace th mechanical hard drive in the PC with a SATA SSD. If it already has an SSD, th

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.9.3 has been released

2024-07-13 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > > On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 19:00, John Dammeyer > wrote: > > > > Hi Andy, > > On my workbench for playing around I'm running 2.8.4 on a Pi4 with an LCD > touch screen and the MESA 7i92H. How easy to update that? > > The best thing to do with a Pi

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.9.3 has been released

2024-07-13 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 19:00, John Dammeyer wrote: > > Hi Andy, > On my workbench for playing around I'm running 2.8.4 on a Pi4 with an LCD > touch screen and the MESA 7i92H. How easy to update that? The best thing to do with a Pi is probably to make a new SD card from the LinuxCNC image, then

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.9.3 has been released

2024-07-13 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Andy, On my workbench for playing around I'm running 2.8.4 on a Pi4 with an LCD touch screen and the MESA 7i92H. How easy to update that? I'd like to try QtDragon on it. My actual mill is running 2.8.1 on an older Lenovo. Would it just be easier to upgrade to new hardware for 2.9.3? As

Re: [Emc-users] Preferred way to slave multiple QTVCP pushbuttons?

2024-07-13 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 22:25, Ted wrote: > > there are a couple buttons that need to be on multiple > tabs, such as CycleStart, FeedHold, Lubrication Enabled, You haven't said which GUI system you plan to use, but in the case of Glade if two spin-buttons have the same "Adjustment" then they act a