Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread Dave Matthews
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 18:09 John Dammeyer wrote: > > You're right of course. I don't think the target is existing BBB users. > I think the target market is people whos PCs are running MACH and the > hardware has potentially reached end of life. I found with this latest > set of PCs I bought

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread John Dammeyer
> >Perhaps what's needed is the work to make the MESA boards function > with the BeagleBone. Then it's a plug and play change with no large amounts > of physical hardware to move around. Like Sam does hanging it off the back > of the monitor. > > How many Bone users are out there that want

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread Les Newell
The status messages often do change between versions. A big example of this was when joints and axes were split up. The status messages changed quite a bit then. Multi spindle support was another biggie.  These were two big examples but there are plenty of other smaller changes that have

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread Les Newell
It's a BIG change with lots of potential to break things and the benefits don't really warrant the work and risk. You really don't want to accidentally introduce a bug that only shows up when someone runs a particular configuration but when it does, makes the machine eat itself. Les On

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread N
ange? > John > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: N [mailto:nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com] > > Sent: February-17-20 12:38 PM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list >

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread N
> On 17/02/2020 18:15, Johannes Fassotte wrote: > > I'm reviewing currently available documentation from the NIST on how a > > remote user is fed status information. From what I can tell based on > > my experiments is that the raw data file is sent to the remote for > > decoding and that the

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Looking to make hex offset list for NML status shared memoryr

2020-02-17 Thread Les Newell
On 17/02/2020 18:15, Johannes Fassotte wrote: I'm reviewing currently available documentation from the NIST on how a remote user is fed status information. From what I can tell based on my experiments is that the raw data file is sent to the remote for decoding and that the remote is able to