Funny you say that. When I try to surf the web with my emco moving, it
starts doing some crazy things and making even crazier noises, so I disable
wifi unless I'm not using the machine 😌

Phil T.
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 2:16 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 June 2021 01:32:24 Chris Morley wrote:
>
> > I've considerable experience in screen building and a bit using remap.
> > I've fairly often came to the problem of needing information from the
> > remap (or linuxcnc proper) presented to the screen. By design linuxcnc
> > has status messages that are usually used for this but it is difficult
> > to extend. On a recent fanuc style lathe tool remap, I wanted the wear
> > offset number displayed on the screen. Parameters work well for
> > passing information internally, accessible in gcode and can be stored
> > at shutdown. But they are not accessible in screen user code.
> > I got around this by building a HAL component in the remap to copy a
> > parameter to a HAL pin. HAL is accessible everywhere and is easily
> > extendable.
> >
> > Then it occurred to me - why couldn't all parameter data be held in a
> > HAL comp? Can anyone else think of a reason it couldn't or shouldn't ?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> Sounds useful Chris. If it can be done with an update speed that would
> prevent the use of stale data. Say like I do for manual controls on the
> sheldon lathe. My dials are 100 ppr dials, and making all that stuff run
> at servo-thread rate makes no sense so those controls are in a seperate
> 200 hz thread. That worked flawlessly on a pi3, and still do now with a
> pi4, probably would not be needed. The pi4 can run the lathe while I'm
> browsing the web with firefox. On the same pi4.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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