oh you're using the gantry component not the joint axes master branch... 
never mind. If you were using the joint axes I'd copy you a working 
config...

JT

On 9/5/2016 4:14 PM, Danny Miller wrote:
> On 9/5/2016 9:24 AM, John Thornton wrote:
>> Sounds like your home switches for the gantry are not connected
>> correctly in hal. You do have one switch for each joint right?
>>
>> JT
> Yep my HAL's right there.  And I've watched switches-x1 and switches-x2
> on the HAL monitor while I triggered them.  They respond.
>
> At one point I switched the connection for gantry.0.joint.00.home and
> gantry.0.joint.01.home, just in case I was using the switch for X1 on
> what was actually the drive for X2.  It was a good theory, but it didn't
> change anything.
>
> Danny
>
>>
>>
>> On 9/5/2016 7:34 AM, Danny Miller wrote:
>>> On 9/2/2016 9:45 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>>> On 9/1/2016 9:28 PM, dan...@austin.rr.com wrote:
>>>>> Well, wait- just rechecked the gantry man page: "When the system is
>>>>> homing and a joint home switch activates, the command value sent to
>>>>> that joint is "frozen" and the joint offset value is updated
>>>>> instead"
>>>>>
>>>>> It unambiguously DOES say it's per-axis homing, but I saw it stop
>>>>> both when X1's limit tripped and X2 never went into seek, and if X2
>>>>> was in front of X1, went over the homing switch with no effect
>>>>> until X1 tripped.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's what's in my HAL that should be relevant, did I screw
>>>>> something up?
>>>>>
>>>>> loadrt gantry count=1 personality=2
>>>>> net switches-x1   <=  hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.gpio.005.in_not
>>>>> net switches-x2   <=  hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.gpio.003.in_not
>>>>> net switches-x1   => gantry.0.joint.00.home
>>>>> net switches-x2   => gantry.0.joint.01.home
>>>>> net home-x         <= gantry.0.home
>>>>> net home-x          => axis.0.home-sw-in
>>>> That looks OK, but it's not enough to verify your HAL file is correct.
>>>>
>>>> The behavior you describe could happen if the search-vel input is
>>>> incorrect, if you're using the limit output instead of the home output
>>>> to feed to motion, or if your home switch signals have the wrong
>>>> polarity (they should be high if the switch is "tripped").
>>> There is ONLY a homing switch.  No limit.
>>>
>>> Polarity is correct.
>>>
>>> I didn't have an [Axis3] section at all in my ini, since nothing seemed
>>> to use it, all references for axis3 functions go back to axis0.  I did
>>> copy Axis0 section into an Axis3 though, so search-vel does exist now
>>> for axis3.
>>>
>>> Didn't help.
>>>
>>> I did see this: when it homes, if X1 is ahead of X2, it stops both on
>>> X1.  However if X2 is ahead of X1, it ignores BOTH homing switches.  It
>>> just drives both  into the stops and grinds forever. The sensors are far
>>> enough from the stops now that there's room to go far enough to pass the
>>> switches which does create an awkward case where it may start already
>>> past it and  grind on the endstop without ever seeing the sensor.
>>>
>>> Danny
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