Re: [Machinekit] Re: Native Compilation and Cloudsmith Repos...

Feb 28, 2021, 01:15 by machinekit@googlegroups.com: > Feb 28, 2021, 01:08 by machinekit@googlegroups.com: > >> OK, >> >> let's get the high ground overview and get the EMCApplication installed >> first on AMD64 system. Only after this is done and working, we will attack >> these other issues. >>

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Native Compilation and Cloudsmith Repos...

Feb 28, 2021, 01:08 by machinekit@googlegroups.com: > OK, > > let's get the high ground overview and get the EMCApplication installed first > on AMD64 system. Only after this is done and working, we will attack these > other issues. > > I will use a Docker container, as it is easy to spin up and

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Native Compilation and Cloudsmith Repos...

OK, let's get the high ground overview and get the EMCApplication installed first on AMD64 system. Only after this is done and working, we will attack these other issues. I will use a Docker container, as it is easy to spin up and clean after, but feel free to try it on a normal install (Debia

Re: [Machinekit] Re: any info on the spiPRU mentioned

latency but an rpi4 having a USB3 port doesn't do any good when MCUs >> really do not. Most MCUs bake usb2 hardware right onto the chip while usb3 >> is generally a PCIE lane attached to a PHY which I have yet to see on any >> dev boards. >> >> So what's

Re: [Machinekit] Re: any info on the spiPRU mentioned

u/thumbs/833386/pomarlan.pdf about what one can do about RT on USB2. And why? Well, because people are people, and they will always try to do things which seem superfluous. If somebody wants to use USB, great, let's see what he will be able to come up with... Cern > > On Thu, Feb 18,

Re: [Machinekit] Re: any info on the spiPRU mentioned

Hello, Feb 18, 2021, 14:32 by joonas.fors...@gmail.com: > USB itself isn’t realtime capable so it can’t be used for any realtime tasks. > It's not that simple. USB2 has higher latencies, true, but if you are OK with them, then the USB2 interface is as capable of real-time communication as any o

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hi, Feb 6, 2021, 03:16 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello... > > Okay. So, the PSU will be here soon. It seems this has put a damper in my > handling of the MachineKit source and usage. Anyway, I will be posting soon > to show and tell soon. > > Seth > > P.S. If you all are still interested in me maki

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hi, Jan 26, 2021, 05:46 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > I know what I said and I know I have failed so far. Excuse me, I will keep > attempting ideas. My power source is on another planet or something. I am > still waiting for it.  > > ... > > So, Jekyll is out. Okay. If the site cannot be do

Re: [Machinekit] Re: linuxcnc-ethercat / ethercatlab and lcnc/machinekit

Hi, Jan 9, 2021, 22:09 by moronicsm...@gmail.com: > Sadly no, i havent seen that one. And that comes back to my previous points > on that the current work on machinekit is a bit obscured. > The fact you have a cloudsmith repository going is news to me and not > something ive seen in any of the

Re: [Machinekit] Is machinekit broken?

Hi, Jan 9, 2021, 22:05 by moronicsm...@gmail.com: > https://cloudsmith.io/~machinekit/repos/machinekit/packages/?q=python3-avahi  > << This i dodnt even knew that it existed by reading the documentation. :) > > I was talking about the machinekit-hal repository. :) > > Regarding documentation, is

Re: [Machinekit] Is machinekit broken?

Hello, I will try to give an honest answer, however I am sure that as a Machinekit organization maintainer, I am liable to a tinted viewpoint. Firstly, from your post I am not sure if you are talking mainly about the monorepo at github.com/machinekit/machinekit

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hello, Dec 29, 2020, 03:04 by fun...@gmail.com: > Sir, > > Also...are you (we) trying to move away from Jekll and markdown? If so, I > should not waste my time in markdown for now. > I think the Hugo looks nice, but I wouldn't say that move away from Jekyll is a must. I have been looking more a

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hi, Dec 28, 2020, 04:36 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > I found markdown.org. It seems, newly born again software "expert" here, > there are many avenues to take on this venture. CodeLabs does not like me or > Ubuntu for some reason.  > > ... > > I can try CodeLabs again under Debian if neces

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hello, Dec 18, 2020, 03:50 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > You got it. Do not solely rely on me but if you want me to start sharing > ideas, I can keep it up to date constantly. If learning this source will help > me w/ my machines, learning is preferable for me and I can document things > w

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hello, Dec 21, 2020, 05:22 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > Okay. I am trying CodeLabs now. Not fun! > Sorry to hear that! > > Although I am willing to spend more time on this endeavor, publishing via > wiki might not be an answer. You are right. So, w/ codelabs, I can publish a > small routi

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hi, sure. I meant that it would be part of the Machinekit.io website and served as a part of it. But you are right that there currently is no provision for it and that would need to be scripted in. So, for now just try to do what you think is best. I am not against the BBB. It is a good syst

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Hi, of course, this is a voluntary project, you can take as much time as you need. I heard that people who just learned something are the best teachers. I don't know if I agree completely, but for sure it is a good way how to sort out newly acquired knowledge even better! I was thinking of crea

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cold storage or dead?

Thank you for the input! Dec 7, 2020, 07:04 by fun...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > I say start small w/ the site. Add a few hyperlinks to start. Make something > official geared towards people like me who are newcomers and willing to spend > time dedicated to application. I am a starter in this fiel

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Problems building machinekit-cnc from source

Hi, the latest Machinekit-HAL should run on arm64 architecture - there is even testing of this: https://travis-ci.com/github/machinekit/machinekit-hal/jobs/371433497 (example of the latest push). I am not completely sure about the commit e81023b8b9ae49a9e971d9da6d424297061772bc, what kind of is

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Problems building machinekit-cnc from source

Yes, the Machinekit-CNC@master cannot be currently built on top of Machinekit-HAL@master. This was done because the original build flow was extremely inflexible and the precedence was given to option to build Enhanced Machine Controller (which is developed as part of LinuxCNC and the development

Re: [Machinekit] How to write to /var/log/linuxcnc.log with Python?

Jul 28, 2020, 22:23 by j...@pocketnc.com: > Thanks for all the info, Cern! > > I dug a little deeper and on my Beaglebone that has a prebuilt MachineKit > image from July of 2019 does not log rtapi_print_msg(RTAPI_MSG_ERR, ... ) > calls to the msgd socket, nor the linuxcnc.error_channel. I also

Re: [Machinekit] How to write to /var/log/linuxcnc.log with Python?

When I was playing with it some year or two back, I just looked at exported mDNS/DNS-SD/Bonjour services (there is a ton of programs for it on any platform), got the address of the socket and then simply used quick'n'dirty program written by the simple tutorial on zeromq.org. I am not sure if th

Re: [Machinekit] How to write to /var/log/linuxcnc.log with Python?

What about the ZMQ socket on the msgd process, can you see the messages there? Given that I cannot find the error_channel() definition in Machinekit-HAL, I am not sure if the support for it is done in rtapi logging. I have a mounting anxiety that it is one of the things which were in LinuxCNC bu

Re: [Machinekit] How to write to /var/log/linuxcnc.log with Python?

Hi, Jul 24, 2020, 23:14 by j...@pocketnc.com: > Unlike rtapi_print_msg, this doesn't seem to append messages to the > linuxcnc.error_channel. Is there anyway to do so in python? > maybe I don't understand the question (and this python stuff is a little bit outside my comfort zone), however isn'

Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

Jun 25, 2020, 01:53 by blazin...@gmail.com: > Linuxcnc has a hal driver for ethercat master as it doesn't require any > special hardware. > There was support for quite some time now, that's not the problem. > > Ethercat slaves AFAIK require an ASIC and it's pretty expensive. > Ethercat slave re

Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

Hi, Jun 23, 2020, 20:45 by jkrid...@beagleboard.org: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:14 PM justin White <> blazin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 6:32:52 PM UTC-4, Chris Albertson wrote: >>> Isn’t that something the Beagle is strong at with the eQEP and PRUs? >>>

Re: [Machinekit] Problems building machinekit-cnc from source

Hi, Jun 20, 2020, 19:14 by michael.labud...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > I am setting up a development environment and trying to build machine-kit > from source, I was able to build machinekit-hal without any problems, but > machinekit-cnc is a different story. Following instructions given on > > h

RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

Hi, Jun 9, 2020, 22:25 by juha.hei...@gmail.com: > Hmm out of curiosity why would you require 2 separate EtherCat ports or is it > just for a ring topology? > > If you can settle for just one, you could run the igh EtherCat master stack > on the BBB and use available LAN port. So if one is enoug

Re: [Machinekit] Re: halcmd setp equivalent in python

May 19, 2020, 18:14 by mib.holotro...@gmail.com: > Well seems like my brain started working again and I found out that this > construction fits that task: > >     os.system("halcmd setp hm2_5i25.0.pwmgen.00.scale %s "%(c.find('SPINDLE', > 'MAXRPM'))) > > On a side note according to this post:

Re: [Machinekit] BBB RootCape - New Cape for BBB

Hi, May 14, 2020, 15:46 by jkrid...@beagleboard.org: > All of this is why I'd started a thread about making a Machinekit-focused > cape with Seeed. Also, I'd want to bake-in support for the BeagleBone AI, > which should give people a big boost in UI performance. > > I started making a feature pr

Re: [Machinekit] vfdb_vfd missing from latest machinekit-hal

Hi, May 13, 2020, 18:57 by j...@pocketnc.com: > It looks like the vfdb_vfd HAL module was removed when machinekit-hal > separated from the main machinekit repository (> this commit > > > ). Was there a

Re: [Machinekit] problems with realtime kernel on Beaglebone AI

Hi, May 1, 2020, 23:36 by j...@pocketnc.com: > This seems to be the source of the problem: > > https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit-hal/blob/9fca994e08e3f8384498e78ea8e8baa1c899e4db/src/rtapi/rtapi_app.cc#L1457 > You are not the only one bitten. There is/was discussion in Machinekit Matrix r

Re: [Machinekit] Travis CI builds of machinekit-cnc

Hi, I was somewhat successful in solving this issue. Description on Github: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit-hal/issues/271 Cern. Apr 11, 2020, 01:38 by machinekit@googlegroups.com: > Hmmm, > it looks like package installation should be included in CI test run. > > I am no expert at pa

Re: [Machinekit] Travis CI builds of machinekit-cnc

Hmmm, it looks like package installation should be included in CI test run. I am no expert at packaging, either. Debian or otherwise. (This is Zultron's area and I hope he will pop in.) What I discovered so far is that there was some discussion about functionality which would allow excluding fil

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit Buster missing dependency (Debian)?

No, just installing python-yapps is not enough. The whole Machinekit/machinekit branch of development with its repository https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit is no longer developed and so new versions of packages are not going to happen. So the needed change is not going to be done there.

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit Buster missing dependency (Debian)?

Hi, Apr 5, 2020, 08:40 by jiriprochazka...@gmail.com: > Any update on this issue now? > yes, this issue was solved by ORing python-yapps (which is in buster: https://packages.debian.org/buster/python-yapps ) in place of yapps2-runtime (which is only for jessie and stretch: https://packages.debi

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Breakout board for BeagleBone Black (BBB)

Hi, Apr 4, 2020, 04:04 by ozzyro...@gmail.com: > > > I did the same when I did minehad a lapse along the way and screwed up > the signal to pin mapping. As long as the daughter boards match the cape no > probs. In my defense I was looking after a Beagle pup we got at 8 weeks old. > > There'

Re: [Machinekit] Travis CI builds of machinekit-cnc

Hi, Mar 22, 2020, 03:09 by cameron.mcqu...@gmail.com: > What is the status of Travis CI builds for machinekit-cnc? I would love to > help get this going if needed. Let me know how I can help :) > The current status is that it is not working. And frankly have no idea if it ever worked or was just

Re: [Machinekit] how to use webtalk

Mar 16, 2020, 17:15 by j...@allwinedesigns.com: > What steps are necessary to use webtalk? > Hi, WebTalk seems to be just a proxy between ZeroMQ and Websockets. It looks like nobody cared about it and it was not touched since Michael Haberler left. From Git it was left as is for about six year

Re: [Machinekit] BeagleBone with Cramps X stepper vibrates but does not move

Hi, Mar 13, 2020, 20:17 by hammond.jo...@gmail.com: > When the stepper is plugged into the Y-axis or Z-axis Polulu it rotates, when > pluggedinto the X-axis Polulu, it just vibrates. The stepper is not driving > anything. What needs to be changed in software to repair this? > Frankly, I have n

RE: [Machinekit] Re: PICnc with Machine Kit.

Hi, since we are having extensive talk about this kind of hardware - did anybody spare any thought to EtherCAT slave device which would be useful for home machine integrator/retrofiter? (Some basic IO, encoder counters, analog signal output generation and step/dir signals output [in one or two

Re: [Machinekit] Q: Regarding the diff between repos.

Hello, the main development is happening in the Machinekit-HAL repository, but that is only because active developers are more interested in that kind of work. The Machinekit-CNC branch is little bit stale as no one is really interested in it at the moment. There was discussion about creating ki

Re: [Machinekit] Re: PICnc with Machine Kit.

Hi, I have been looking from afar (as I don't need another project at the time) at the Zephyr RTOS project. It gets me thinking, something like PICnc needs mainly access to encoder and PWM peripheral timers, right? And then receive and send messages over some time-deterministic line, right? So,

RE: [Machinekit] Re: PICnc with Machine Kit.

ay that the only design choice is that is ignoring what is already there. > > John > > >> -Original Message- >> From: cern via Machinekit [mailto:machinekit@googlegroups.com] >> Sent: March-01-20 1:26 PM >> To: Chris Albertson; Machinekit >> Subject:

Re: [Machinekit] Re: PICnc with Machine Kit.

Hi, the original author didn't include the email in his reply, so I am posting this as an all-in-one answer. Mar 1, 2020, 06:20 by albertson.ch...@gmail.com: > > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 4:27 PM cern via Machinekit <> > machinekit@googlegroups.com> > wrote: >

Re: [Machinekit] mb2hal?

Hi, I have just posted pull request merging MB2HAL from LinuxCNC/linuxcnc@master into Machinekit/machinekit-hal@master: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit-hal/pull/258 Cern. Dec 27, 2019, 16:46 by blazin...@gmail.com: > Bump...not alotta interest in modbus in my eh? > > -- > website:

Re: [Machinekit] Q: Regarding the diff between repos.

Hello, Mar 1, 2020, 17:44 by moronicsm...@gmail.com: > So new to Machinekit. Been looking at it coming from LinuxCNC. > > And been going thru the documentation and it seems like machinekit is alot > more focused on useability than LinuxCNC. > > One thing i couldnt really differentiate in either r

RE: [Machinekit] Re: PICnc with Machine Kit.

Hi, I am all in for cheap, low entry hardware. Don't care if it is PIC or ARM. I think that for most cases it would be enough to have just serial connection between PC/SBC and this board. But some simple  Ethernet based communication (maybe lower in the OSI model) would be nice too. I have a f

Re: [Machinekit] Re: DE10 Nano suggested development environment?

Hi, Feb 26, 2020, 16:02 by blazin...@gmail.com: > Yes the mesa firmware has been around for quite some time but only in this > project has it been this configurable.  > > Putting an fpga on a pcb isn't super easy for novices, while Mesa is > fantastic you are buying a board with the fpga's i/o

Re: [Machinekit] What happened to Machinekit's Jenkins?

Hello, Feb 6, 2020, 05:16 by j...@dovetail-automata.com: > I'm not sure exactly what happened, except I know the server's owner needed > to reclaim the resources Jenkins was using, and ISTR hearing Jenkins was a > PITA to administer. > problem is - at least it looks like it from where I stand -

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit Buster missing dependency (Debian)?

Hello, Feb 16, 2020, 16:59 by mr84g...@gmail.com: > > > On Sunday, 16 February 2020 14:42:33 UTC, ce...@tuta.io wrote: > >> Hello, >> Feb 15, 2020, 22:06 by >> mr84...@gmail.com <>>> : >> >> > >> > >> > On Saturday, 15 February 2020 20:26:24 UTC, Bas de Bruijn  wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > An

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit Buster missing dependency (Debian)?

Hello, Feb 15, 2020, 22:06 by mr84g...@gmail.com: > > > On Saturday, 15 February 2020 20:26:24 UTC, Bas de Bruijn wrote: > >> >> > Any known workaround for this problem? >> >> Try installing the package manually first. `sudo apt install >> ` >> > > > > My problem is the package   no longer e