[Emc-users] Regression in pyvcp's radiobutton from 2.5 to 2.6.5, nothing selected in the hal layer on startup

2015-01-18 Thread Maximilian Heise
Hello, I tried to change versions from 2.5 master to 2.6.5 on an linuxcnc installation and noticed a regression. The radiobutton does not select its iniital value on startup. I have not yet looked into the other pyvcp widgets to check if the same problem exists with them too. I am using a pvcp ba

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-07-18 Thread Maximilian H
19th and 20th of October would be a good time for me too. BR Max. > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Viesturs Lācis > wrote: > >> >> > If there are no objections I would reserve my workplace/workshop in > Stuttgart, BW for the 19./20.th October > for our integrator meeting so we can all put

Re: [Emc-users] Need MESA 5i25 + 7i77 in EU quickly

2013-07-15 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Marius, I always order mine from Lascar Elektronik in Germany. If you are lucky then they have something in stock. www.lascar.com +49 7459 1271 BR+Good luck Max. > Does somebody have spare kit in EU? Need it in Lithuania. > > > ---

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-06-17 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Rene, is your workshop big enough for all the people that have already stated their interest? Can you tell me/us where you are located around Stuttgart ? And maybe we should move this to a wiki page ? BR Max. > Hello, > my name is Rene I'm also located next to Stuttgart. A meeting i

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-06-14 Thread Maximilian H
stria Maximilian H., mhemc2nos...@googlemail.com, near Stuttgart, Germany BR Max. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-de

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-06-11 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, southern Germany sounds great to me ;) (Especially since I am living close to Stuttgart). So I'd love to come. BR Max. > Hello all. > > > Is there a LinuxCNC integrator workshop planned in/around Germany within > the next year or so? > If not - are there people interested in

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-19 Thread Maximilian H
rmittent or flaky? > > Some systems seem to take a time out when a USB device goes on or offline. > > Dave > > On 5/19/2013 10:19 AM, Maximilian H wrote: >> Hello Everybody, >> >> many thanks for your great input. It has given me some ideas of what I >> can

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-19 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Peter, > One thing to verify once you get a watchdog has bitten error is to verify if > that its a real watchdog bite or whether its somehow a false noise generated > report. Can you toggle any I/O bits (via halcmd) after the watchdog has bit > event? I do have leds on the digital outputs

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-19 Thread Maximilian H
>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ? >> >> On 05/17/2013 03:27 PM, Andrew wrote: >>> 2013/5/17 Maximilian H >>> >>>> I use a >>>> ser

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-17 Thread Maximilian Heise
Hello, as an additional info the cpu is a athlon x2 250 @3GHz, 4G of ram installed, asus mainboard, onboard lpt port to connect to the 7i43. BR Max. -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers co

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-17 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, as an additional info the cpu is a athlon x2 250 @3GHz, 4G of ram installed, asus mainboard, onboard lpt port to connect to the 7i43. BR Max. -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers co

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-17 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, > Which version of LinuxCNC are you using? I tried with both 2.5.2 and 2.4.7, machine is a ubuntu 10.04 lucid 32 bits with rtai installed from the emc2 cd. The 2.5.2 version is stock from the deb packages. The 2.4.7 version has some changes to the interpreter, but no other changes to other

[Emc-users] 7i43 watchdog has bitten, looking for the cause ?

2013-05-17 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, I have a old mill that I want to use with linuxcnc. I have prepared a pc with a 7i43+7i33+custom pcb to interface the mill. That pc with the interface I have both tested with the latency test and also with 7i43+7i33+pcb and the output for EstopWrite connected to the input of EstopSense i

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 and estop

2013-01-21 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Bruce, I am running a Mesa 7i43+7i33 servo setup myself. If you press estop, or if estop is generated through the estop chain, then you do not loose position. To loose position on a rotary encoder or linear scale with a 7i33 you'd need to switch off power to the 7i33, which should trigger

[Emc-users] Lava Moko L72.2 pci parallel port card - epp wide mode for Mesanet 7i43 ?

2012-08-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, I have a Lava Moko L72.2 pci parallel port card, but I can only use it with epp_wide=0 in the loadrt line for the mesanet 7i43. $ halrun halcmd: loadrt hostmot2 halcmd: loadrt probe_parport halcmd: loadrt hm2_7i43 config="firmware=hm2/7i43/SVST4_4B.BIT num_encoders=4 num_pwmgens=4 num_ste

[Emc-users] /etc/update-manger/release-upgrades: Prompt=lts => Prompt=never

2012-07-20 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, while there is a too big to miss notice in the wiki that upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04. will break things-which is all well if you are yourself the well informed operator of the machine-it will happen somewhere ;) Needless to say I had to write back a backup after I had the case of an mach

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet

2012-06-20 Thread Maximilian H
a very big thanks to Michael Geszkiewicz for writing the linux flash program :) BR Max. > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Maximilian H wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:55:37 +0200 >> From: Maximilian H >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >>

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet

2012-06-18 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Peter, thanks for your last answer. Power cycling the computer did solve my problem. The 5i25 now loads fine together with the 7i77. I will now proceed to write some pyvcp debugger gui for my intended setup to get things going. Big thanks to you for providing the answers to my problems on

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet

2012-06-17 Thread Maximilian H
.0: PCI INT A disabled [14170.506767] hm2_pci: probe of :03:01.0 failed with error -22 [14170.506789] HAL: removing component 05 [14170.506792] RTAPI: module 5 exiting [14170.506797] RTAPI: module 5 exited, name: 'HAL_hm2_pci' [14170.506799] HAL: component 05 removed, name = 'hm2

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet

2012-06-16 Thread Maximilian H
0100 >> From: andy pugh >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> >> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet >> >> On 16 June 2012 17:23, Maximilian H wrot

[Emc-users] 5i25 detected, but not the 7i77 yet

2012-06-16 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, I have now spend the last few hours trying to create a first lab setup with the mesanet 5i25 and the 7i77, but the 7i77 is not recognized at all. In general I have been setting up and running a few machines with the 7i43 cards since 2008 now-so I am not a total noob. The 5i25 is installed

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 fpga internal input pull ups - could sb synthesise another firmware for the 7i43 with pull downs for GPIO pins please ?

2011-08-18 Thread Maximilian H
version ? I have ISE 12.3 installed: Do you happen to know whether that version will work ? Thanks BR Max. > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Maximilian H wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:01:00 +0200 >> From: Maximilian H >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)&q

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 fpga internal input pull ups - could sb synthesise another firmware for the 7i43 with pull downs for GPIO pins please ?

2011-08-17 Thread Maximilian H
Hello List, I have run into a problem with my new revision of my pcb which adapts a 7i43 and a 7i33 to a machine of mine. Before I had W3 in the up position, which enabled the pull ups on the 7i43. Then I inverted the polarity of the outputs in the hal layer,i.e. the output signals where active

Re: [Emc-users] Dell D610 laptop success?

2011-05-31 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, I tried a Dell Latidude D600 about 8 months back with EMC2 10.04. The D600 is the predecessor to the D610. They have the same accessoires, docking station, screen. CPU and mainboard are different, afaik. I could install without problems, but the laptop frooze after a few hours of usage of

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Maximilian H
Hey David, I use emc2 inside virtualbox myself for compiling emc2 and building deb packages inside the guest os for myself with the tweaks I need. That way I can do this on my work laptop in a stable environment even if I have other versions of Ubuntu (like 10.10 amd64) running as the host. Att

[Emc-users] nasty bug in the stg driver: dac output voltage wraps around for min. commanded value to max. possible value

2010-08-13 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, after noticing some bad noises on a machine I noticed that when I command an output of -10.0V on an stg2 card that it actually outputs +10V. To debug and reproduce I did this: setp stg.2.dac-value -10 or setp stg.2.dac-value -9.999 measured approx. +10V with a voltmeter, not ok

Re: [Emc-users] PROGRAM_INCLUDE_PATH in addition to PROGRAM_PREFIX?

2010-08-10 Thread Maximilian H
Hey, I like your idea, which is interesting to me because I currently keep the user defined M100+ files are in the same directory as the other ngc files - which is not a good idea since ngc files sometimes need to be deleted or changed, but the M files should be kept immutable. So if PROGRAM_PRE

[Emc-users] SPI bus communication with mesa cards ?

2010-05-03 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, I'd like to use some extra ICs to read an ADC at a relatively low speed to get some values from potentiometers. And I2C or SPI integrated circuits are quite common. I currently have a mesa 7i43, 200k and 400k versions with an extra pcb to adapt to the cnc machine. I'd like to pu

[Emc-users] Logging pos, vel and accel with errors to syslog

2010-01-09 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, is there a way to log the current position, velocity and acceleration to syslog if there is an error situation that gets logged to /var/log/syslog ? I might have a problem with the mechanics that only happens under certain conditions and I want to have more data to see if a patt

Re: [Emc-users] Working parport pci chipsets

2009-12-08 Thread Maximilian Heise
Hello Sebastian, I am currently not around the shop for the next days, but I will pastebin them then. Cheers Max > Maximilian H wrote: >> I got a 2 port SUN1888 pci parallel port today - only card I could find >> in town without a moschip chipset. >> >> I haven&

Re: [Emc-users] Working parport pci chipsets

2009-12-07 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Peter, I got a 2 port SUN1888 pci parallel port today - only card I could find in town without a moschip chipset. I haven't tried to use the 2nd port, but the first one gives me a nice 2msecs servo cycle time with an 7i43. With one msec I get bitten from the watchdog, but two msecs seems

Re: [Emc-users] Servo cycle times for pci parallel cards and mesa 7i43 cards

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Jon, 0,5 millisecs is quite good. I was asking because I could get the Oxford PCI840 to just about 10ms servo cycle time before the driver would cause an error. Cheers Max > Maximilian H wrote: >> Hello Everybody, >> >> I was wondering which is a reliable setting f

Re: [Emc-users] What parport chipsets are working ?

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Jon, thanks for the url. My problem is that I sometimes remember having seen something in the wiki, but then I cannot find it again. I was thinking that maybe I should summarize my epp pci card experiences in the wiki in a seperate page. Cheers Max > Jon Elson wrote: >> I have put some

[Emc-users] Servo cycle times for pci parallel cards and mesa 7i43 cards

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, I was wondering which is a reliable setting for a servo cycle time with an extra pci parallel card, assuming that the whole setup works "as it should" ? I have been using a 1 millisec servo cycle time with onboard motherboard parallel ports, but with extra pci parallel port card

Re: [Emc-users] What parport chipsets are working ?

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Peter, > > The problem is that with add-in PCI parallel ports, you somehow need to set > them to the proper mode (EPP in this case) Unfortunately for some parallel > chips this requires chip specific register frobbing, and often all the card > comes with is a windows driver (and chip doc

Re: [Emc-users] What parport chipsets are working ?

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Peter, why is the linux pp driver important with the pci parallel port card ? I mean I have disabled the parport_pc, parport, ppdev and lp modules in /etc/modprobe.d/emc2, so these pci parallel ports do not get claimed by the linux pp driver at all. Or am I missing something ? I'll try to

[Emc-users] Working parport pci chipsets

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, thanks for all your fast and detailed replies - I do feel that I am in excellent virtual company on this nice and rainy Sunday afternoon :) To summarize: I should be ok as long as I use a <2 feet parallel port cable with either a SUN1888 or Oxford PCI952 card and a 7i43 rev. C. Cheers Ma

[Emc-users] What parport chipsets are working ? Was: Mesa 7i43 and a oxford semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian Heise
or anybody else tried these ite or sun1888 chipsets. Cheers Max > Maximilian H wrote: >> I am trying to get this combination of a mesa 7i43 and an oxford >> semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card to run, but I cannot >> get it to run in epp_wide mode and

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 and a oxford semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card

2009-12-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, I am trying to get this combination of a mesa 7i43 and an oxford semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card to run, but I cannot get it to run in epp_wide mode and I cannot get a servo thread to run with a cycle time of less than 10 millisecs. With onboard mainboards I go

Re: [Emc-users] Feed word

2009-09-06 Thread Maximilian H
Hey Steve, have a look at the interpreter source file interp_convert.cc, function int Interp::convert_straight. The piece of code that you probably want to change is this one: START_SPEED_FEED_SYNCH(block->k_number, 0); Just as a try I'd suggest you change that to: START_SPEED_FEED_SYNCH

Re: [Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

2009-09-03 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Eric, please have a look at the motion.digital-out-XX pins in hal and the num_dio parameter to the "loadrt motmod" line if the default number of 4 dio pins is not enough. I think the num_dio parameter is a fairly recent feature enhancement, so you should run a 2.3.something version to use

[Emc-users] (AXIS,hide) and (AXIS,show) of one G0 move

2009-08-10 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, I am trying to suppress the drawing of the preview in AXIS of one G0 move using (AXIS,hide) and (AXIS,show). However, it does not work as I think it should ;) Does anybody have something similar working or could point me to a working example ? Excerpt of non-working gcode: # =

Re: [Emc-users] O-words with n-words, patch attached

2009-07-03 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Chris, i do have more interpreter code. To whom to i submit it for discussion/review/commit ? Thanks BR Max > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Maximilian H wrote: >> The attached small patch to Interp::read_items allows o-words with >> n-words without cha

[Emc-users] O-words with n-words, patch attached

2009-06-29 Thread Maximilian H
Hello, i am still using n-words ( line numbers, old habbits die hard ). However when the line contains o-words, currently (2.3.1) no other words may be present. The attached small patch to Interp::read_items allows o-words with n-words without changing any other behaviour (methinks). Would you

Re: [Emc-users] Amps stay enabled when i close the axis gui - is this normal ?

2008-11-11 Thread Maximilian H
5:43:19AM +0100, Maximilian wrote: >> >> >>> When i close the axis gui with the big X in the upper right corner of >>> the window my amps stay tuned on and start drifting because there is no >>> pid controller providing any commanded position. >>> [.

[Emc-users] STG hardware watchdog, anybody using that feature ?

2008-11-11 Thread Maximilian H
it up so that everybody can use it ? Cheers Max > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:43:19AM +0100, Maximilian wrote: > >> When i close the axis gui with the big X in the upper right corner of >> the window my amps stay tuned on and start drifting because there is no >> pid

[Emc-users] Amps stay enabled when i close the axis gui - is this normal ?

2008-11-11 Thread Maximilian
Hey Everybody, just a quick question because i am lazy enough not to be looking at the source, maybe somebody of you already knows the answer. When i close the axis gui with the big X in the upper right corner of the window my amps stay tuned on and start drifting because there is no pid control

Re: [Emc-users] Hello World!!

2008-11-11 Thread Maximilian
Hey Ahmed, hello and a good morning back to Egypt. After seeing the many replies that you've already gotten, i'll just recommend that you carefully read the emc2 documentation, especially the integrator's manual. How big is the 3 axis mill that you plan to work on ? Will you be driving the stepp

Re: [Emc-users] Stg 1 homing

2008-10-26 Thread Maximilian
Hey Chris, Hey Dave, >> When you home, do you do the axes all at the same time, or one at a >> time? I know the STG (the card itself) has some limitations when >> searching for index on more than one axis at a time. The stg1 card can only detect the index pulse on two axes which are selectable

Re: [Emc-users] stg model 1 card: could somebody confirm that homing on the index pulse works ?

2008-10-19 Thread Maximilian
Hey Dave, thanks for your reply. I modified the stg driver early this week and then tested it in a lab setup with a rotary encoder - but i won't be able to test it on a live machine before Friday next week. There is a little bug that i found and fixed regarding autodetection - it won't work if yo

Re: [Emc-users] Password help EMC2

2008-10-14 Thread Maximilian
Hey John, if you are refering to the EMC2 Ubuntu 8.04 CD and its installation, then the password "should" be what you entered when you installed Ubuntu. Have you finished the installation and has the computer rebooted or are you really "in the process of installing it" ? If you have really fini

[Emc-users] Little bug in hal_stg.c, function stg_init_card()

2008-10-13 Thread Maximilian
stg card will then work in general, the encoders will count, DI and DO works, but the index pulse will not work. To whom do i submit a patch ? I also made some other enhancements (index polarity settable via hal, debug improvements ). Cheers Max > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:35:56AM +0200, Maxim

[Emc-users] stg model 1 card: could somebody confirm that homing on the index pulse works ?

2008-10-12 Thread Maximilian
Hey Everybody, i'd like to convert a mill to emc2 and still have an unused stg1 card. Last Friday i had the machine so far that i could get all axis moving and homing, but i got no signal from the linear encoder's index pulse. I did connect the (undocumented) hal stg.X.index-enable pin to the a