Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/05/2018 12:32 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: In <5b3e4726.5080...@pico-systems.com> Jon Elson writes: Any suggestions? docs section on updating 2.7 to master (2.8~pre): http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.html Thanks, this is what I was looking for!

Re: [Emc-developers] Absolute resolvers

2018-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2018 at 20:28, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > This should also work for any 1 turn absolute encoder (like the common Hall > effect encoders from AMS etc) It should, but the drivers need to be modified to support it. And I don't have any to test it with. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle

Re: [Emc-developers] Absolute resolvers

2018-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, andy pugh wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 20:18:37 +0100 From: andy pugh Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] Absolute resolvers Using the position.txt file and a tweak to the Mesa resolver driver I have had good results making my lathe work

[Emc-developers] Absolute resolvers

2018-07-05 Thread andy pugh
Using the position.txt file and a tweak to the Mesa resolver driver I have had good results making my lathe work as if it has absolute encoders. Does anyone have any opinions about whether I should, or should not, push it? Naturally it would need docs, but you basically just need to connect

Re: [Emc-developers] A tweak to Touchy?

2018-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 17 April 2017 at 15:48, andy pugh wrote: > was finally prompted to try to get > Touchy to report the current override value in the case where it was > set from another source. > > I added a couple of lines around line 798 in touchy.py > > + self.fo_val = s.feedrate * 100 > +

Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread Dewey Garrett
In <5b3e4726.5080...@pico-systems.com> Jon Elson writes: >Any suggestions? docs section on updating 2.7 to master (2.8~pre): http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.html -- Dewey Garrett

Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 July 2018 12:46:55 andy pugh wrote: > On 5 July 2018 at 17:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The biggest thing I can think of is the joint-axis merge, which is > > still a bit incomplete, requiring matching, duplicate entries for > > some of the vars used in the .ini file. > > They are

Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2018 at 17:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > The biggest thing I can think of is the joint-axis merge, which is still > a bit incomplete, requiring matching, duplicate entries for some of the > vars used in the .ini file. They are not duplicates. Though with a trivkins machine the values will

Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 July 2018 12:28:22 Jon Elson wrote: > Are there up-to-date release notes for LinuxCNC? There is a > release notes file in the Wiki, but the last entry is > February 2016 (2.7.4)! There seems to be some > incompatibility with my configs files sets and the 2.8 > release, and I need

Re: [Emc-developers] problems with stretch/uspace install

2018-07-05 Thread Jon Elson
Are there up-to-date release notes for LinuxCNC? There is a release notes file in the Wiki, but the last entry is February 2016 (2.7.4)! There seems to be some incompatibility with my configs files sets and the 2.8 release, and I need to make whatever changes are required. I see a lot of