Machinekit is a little bit up in the cloud they lack the blocks and signal 
paths. Linuxcnc have a better block diagram vith blocks and signal paths.

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EMC_Components

There is also a clear distinction which part are real time and in contrast to 
some other I do not consider user interface as real time.


> >> GUI and possible EMCTASK should be possible to put on separate
> >> devices. Someone told be me NML have been broken but fixed. The gui
> >> is already there so if your device could run the code it should as
> >> far as I understand be possible to split the application.
> >>
> >> I want to achieve something similar but this is because I want to
> >> remove real time demand from user interface. It might also be useful
> >> with more than one GUI and remote control.
> > 
> > An additional complication with running the UI on a separate machine 
> > from the motion controller is that many (all?) UIs want to connect via 
> > both NML and HAL, and there's no good remote HAL interface currently.
> > 
> > So you'd have to either write a GUI that doesn't use HAL, or write a 
> > remote HAL interface.
> 
> Alexander Roessler just did a writeup about the remote HAL interface
> implemented in Machinekit using ZeroMQ and Protobuf:
> 
> http://machinekoder.com/machinetalk-explained-part-4-hal-remote/



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