Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Keeton
Question, do you mean that version 7.124 can be compiled into emc now or do you just want us to play with it aside from emc? Dave On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 15:04 +, Chris Morley wrote: > > > > > > There is a ModBus feature in Classic Ladder, but it seems to me that an > > HAL component specifi

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Morley
:36 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface > > Thanks Chris, I know you and I have talked about modbus and classic > ladder before. I did find a version on source forge that is version > 0.8.2. How would I go about getting version 7.124 to work with the > current vers

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Keeton
Thanks Chris, I know you and I have talked about modbus and classic ladder before. I did find a version on source forge that is version 0.8.2. How would I go about getting version 7.124 to work with the current version? Are there a list of instructions some where? How do I get from CVS? Dave On

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Morley
> > There is a ModBus feature in Classic Ladder, but it seems to me that an > HAL component specifically for the ModIO peripheral would be useful. > ModBus may be a standard, but peripherals that use ModBus vary widely. > Modbus is avaiable in Classicladder 7.124 in CVS right now and will be i

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Homann
Kirk Wallace wrote: > There is a ModBus feature in Classic Ladder, but it seems to me that an > HAL component specifically for the ModIO peripheral would be useful. > ModBus may be a standard, but peripherals that use ModBus vary widely. > My thinking is that each peripheral needs its own HAL comp

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 21:03 -0400, Dave Keeton wrote: > I agree. Every time I have mentioned it the discussion ends up with > "It's a bad idea to run servos from modbus". I couldn't agree more but > it could be very usful for simple digital I/O very safely. > > Dave > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Keeton
I agree. Every time I have mentioned it the discussion ends up with "It's a bad idea to run servos from modbus". I couldn't agree more but it could be very usful for simple digital I/O very safely. Dave On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:25 +1000, Peter Homann wrote: > Rather than writing "another" serial

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Homann
Rather than writing "another" serial interface why not use Modbus and a device like the ModIO http://homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=4 The Modbus protocol is extremely robust and has a number of saftey features built in. Cheers, Peter. ---

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-20 Thread Jeff Epler
For "slow I/O" like coolant, a device attached to a serial or USB port can be appropriate in emc2. You'll probably have to write your pic firmware and an emc2 "hal" driver in tandem, since there's not an established protocol for this (unlike, say, step&direction signals). Conceptually, the PC sid

[Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-20 Thread Malte RĂ¼temann
Hello, has somebody allready written a hal driver for a serial IO interface? Till now I use a serial interface with a pic and 32/16 In-Outputs with Emc1 and tclsh. A nice example in C would also be helpfull. Is there anywhere an example for a c driver in user mode(not realtime) ? Thanks Malte