Re: [Emc-developers] Off topic question - Need help with remote cell phone data connection via site to site VPN

You didn't say what kind of throughput you need nor what your budget is but one option is something like a Cisco RV320 on each end with 4G modems attached. You can see a review of the router here:

Re: [Emc-developers] Shielded connectors (XLR audio plugs)

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:20 PM, andy pugh wrote: > However I since found Neutrik Speakon connectors, and they now do > metal sockets and plugs: > http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/neutrik-nlt4mp-4-pole-male-chassis-speakon-connector-n50gb >

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

Well, I’m at the shop and my VFD is configured as it has been for weeks. So, other than the one time, which certainly could have been an anomaly due to having been actively messing with it for testing, I haven’t had it reset parameters… -Tom > On Oct 10, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Tom Easter

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

reset them so often I have > memorized them. Another call to AD is in order. > > JT > > On 10/9/2015 5:56 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: >> Funny you asked because I was about to send a message asking what this was >> about. I haven’t EVER seen my parameters get reset to fa

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

<s...@highlab.com> wrote: > >> On 10/09/2015 08:23 AM, Tom Easterday wrote: >> Ok, I think we have cleaned up the indentation. Let me know if anything is >> amiss… >> >>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky <s...@highlab.com> wrote: >>

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

this as a problem…. -Tom > On Oct 9, 2015, at 5:49 PM, John Thornton <j...@gnipsel.com> wrote: > > Tom, > > Do you have any idea why a GS2 parameters get reset to factory settings > with the gs2 component. AD says that modbus is writing over the settings. > > JT

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

Ok, I think we have cleaned up the indentation. Let me know if anything is amiss… Thanks, -Tom Added-initialize-option-to-gs2_vfd.c.patch Description: Binary data > On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I looked at what I think is the latest version

Re: [Emc-developers] behavior and/or bug in look ahead 2.7.0~pre7

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > That's super strange and wrong! > > I just tried this in 2.7 with the sim/axis/lathe config and I do not see > any unexpected behavior. > > I made a local file of the G-code you sent, commented out the "... code

[Emc-developers] behavior and/or bug in look ahead 2.7.0~pre7

I ran into this strange situation and after some debugging understand what is happening but wonder if this is considered a bug or expected behavior…? I have the series of commands below running in Axis. Notice the M01 just before (PROFILE2). I am using the pause/resume option to stop the

Re: [Emc-developers] Prerelease: 2.7.0~pre7

I updated 2.7.0~pre6 to 2.7.0~pre7 via update manager in Wheezy and now I get this when trying to launch (rip). Is there something else I need to do? = LINUXCNC - 2.7.0~pre7 Machine configuration directory is '/home/tom/linuxcnc/configs/EMCOturn120p-glade'

Re: [Emc-developers] G76 (G17 vs G18) bug in 2.7.0~pre6??

On Jul 3, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Then I'd guess it needs to do the G17 for some reason, UNK to me. In the Linuxcnc G Code manual it says that for G76: It is an error if: The active plane is not the ZX plane So I can’t imagine why it would want to switch to

Re: [Emc-developers] G76 (G17 vs G18) bug in 2.7.0~pre6??

.input-index Again, it is weird that G17 pops up and it stops, isn’t it? I should also add that it runs fine in the lathe.ini sim. Not sure what is going on… -Tom On Jul 3, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 03 July 2015 20:15:51 Tom Easterday wrote: I am

[Emc-developers] G76 (G17 vs G18) bug in 2.7.0~pre6??

I am trying to do threading on a lathe using the NGCGUI g76.ngc routine. Other operations, facing, turning are working in NGCGUI. When I get to the G76 line in the code (was stepping through it in Axis) it just stops and sits there. The only reason I can see for it stopping is that my plane

[Emc-developers] displaying correct triangle orientation in back tool configuration

Does anyone know if this issue was resolved? http://emc-developers.narkive.com/OwGHijSh/error-in-backplot-with-backtool-set-up-in-lathes http://emc-developers.narkive.com/OwGHijSh/error-in-backplot-with-backtool-set-up-in-lathes I am having this problem now that I finally have gotten all the

Re: [Emc-developers] lathe tool display bug in Axis preview (2.7.0~pre6)

, 2015, at 6:48 AM, John Thornton j...@gnipsel.com wrote: Did you try it in Axis Lathe Sim? Are you tricking Axis by changing the view to back tools or something like that? JT On 6/25/2015 4:05 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: I have lathe tools entered in a tool table including ORIENTATION

[Emc-developers] lathe tool display bug in Axis preview (2.7.0~pre6)

I have lathe tools entered in a tool table including ORIENTATION and FRONTANGLE and BACKANGLE settings but the Axis preview does not show these tools in their correct orientation. It is only displaying a single triangle that points up. Is there a configuration parameter that turns this

Re: [Emc-developers] bug (or really militant feature!) in 2.7.0~pre6 classic ladder - rung delete crash

PM, Tom Easterday wrote: I am muddling through using classicladder in 2.7.0~pre6. If I try to delete a non-empty rung of a ladder (in the CL editor)my entire system just hangs, I assume that isn’t a feature :-) No log messages, nothing. I click the “yes” button to ack the delete and dead

Re: [Emc-developers] bug (or really militant feature!) in 2.7.0~pre6 classic ladder - rung delete crash

On Jun 13, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: Not that I am aware of. Can you tell us more about the way to make it happen. I am using the attached .clp file, which just has two simple rungs. Add a third rung, add a N.O. input (or whatever) and save. Then try

Re: [Emc-developers] custom user components into Linuxcnc distro

I suspect it is different due to the arduino based custom hardware it talks to. But I am unfamiliar with carousel.comp. The component is attached. I will be posting the schematics/board layout, arduino sketch, etc soon to the users list for anyone who might want it. -Tom

[Emc-developers] custom user components into Linuxcnc distro

Is it (un)usual to put a random user component into the source distribution for general release? I have a component that talks to a custom arduino-based circuit board to control an EMCO lathe turret. I’m fairly certain we will be making the hardware and various software components open source

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

Hi Seb, responses inline below. On May 24, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: The patch file you attached claims to be the third patch in a series of 3, but numbers 1 and 2 were not attached. Was that intentional? It applies cleanly to origin/2.7 and builds, so

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

Didn’t hear back on this so I am assuming it is the correct format and that the change was unanimously accepted with no fanfare :-) Actually, no wait, this me Championing my patch. Yeah, that’s it! -Tom On May 15, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: On May 14, 2015

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

On May 14, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: The preferred ways to submit patches are described in the Contributing to LinuxCNC document, feel free to ask questions if you run into any problems.

[Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

I am not a developer (and I don’t play one on TV). But I do know a little bit, enough to be dangerous. I had some help modifying the gs2_vfd.c component in 2.7~pre6 in order to add a new option that allows one to disable and enable the component. We also added a bandaid (retry) to fix the

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

Heh heh, I see a religious argument ensuing. Either you believe that powering the machine down is the only guarantee of safety, or you believe that your electronics are unquestionably reliable and you are a statistician. If the vfd has power and rather than power it down you command it to

Re: [Emc-developers] New wheezy install, pae kernel now

FWIW, I have a new Wheezy (3.4.9-rtai-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 3.4.55-4linuxcnc i686 GNU/Linux) install running, now for 2 days 40 min, and it is using no swap. Up until a few minutes ago it was running a web browser, 1 terminal (with top), and 2 instances of glxgears. For the last

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/30/2013 5:38 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 30.07.2013 um 21:34 schrieb Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: I did the install and rebooted (no RealTek ethernet) but it comes up with a login prompt, no GUI. I put the output of dmesg here: http://pastebin.com/GzQHt4L5

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

Is this a dead end then with this motherboard or is there a way around the lack of MSI in the kernel? I don't see anything encouraging in the link you sent or other searches. Tom On Jul 30, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: yes: [6.311211] gma500 :00:02.0:

[Emc-developers] installing xenomai

I want to install xenomai and linuxcnc on 12.04 and get the error below when doing apt-get update after adding the packages to /etc/apt/sources.list (at this link: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernelPackages). What am i missing? W: GPG error: http://deb.machinekit.net

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

Well, it just stops with that message. I can (and will) ignore it and keep going... Thanks, -Tom On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote: doesn't it give you the chance to ignore that message? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: I

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

I did the install and rebooted (no RealTek ethernet) but it comes up with a login prompt, no GUI. I put the output of dmesg here: http://pastebin.com/GzQHt4L5 Is there something here that tells me why it isn't launching the GUI? -Tom

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

The Xenomai regression test results are here: http://pastebin.com/zt0Nqu4v Not really sure what these numbers should look like... -Tom -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for

Re: [Emc-developers] status update: unified build/new RTOS support

If one wants to build a system with 12.04/Xenomai/Linuxcnc to use today are the instructions on the wiki still the best option or is there something better/more current to use? -Tom On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: I understand that folks are waiting

Re: [Emc-developers] Lucid Lynx Support Ends Today

Speaking of this, what is the current status of moving to 12.04? Will this be discussed (done?) at the fest? -Tom On May 9, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-March/000169.html Nothing spectacular will happen

Re: [Emc-developers] Lucid Lynx Support Ends Today

Thanks for the info. -Tom On May 9, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: On May 9, 2013, at 12:23 , Tom Easterday wrote: Speaking of this, what is the current status of moving to 12.04? Will this be discussed (done?) at the fest? Adding proper support

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai on an Intel Atom motherboard- latency-test results

On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me things are stabilizing to the point where the Xenomai builds need no longer be considered experimental. IMHO, we should consider posting Xenomai metrics to the Wiki for easier comparison. This reminds

[Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

We are seeing up to a quarter second delay before halcmd returns with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai. The crude shell script below simply prints times before/after halcmd (if time wraps you get an invalid number, run again). On our 10.04 system it takes between 10-30 ms to run halcmd

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: try strace ... Output from strace -o filename halcmd -s show pin wcomp.3.max is here: http://bgp.nu/~tom/pub/1204.trace.txt 12.04/Xenomai on Atom 2700 http://bgp.nu/~tom/pub/1004.trace.txt 10.04/rtai on Atom 2500 Not

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: looking at the system call timestamps should give a clue where time is spent since it's for sure not the application code per se, which is trivial in this case I ran again with -r and the results are here:

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:43 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2013 20:33, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: What other way(s) would you suggest for getting/setting pins? halcmd getp / halcmd setp? And why would halcmd getp FOO be faster than halcmd show pin FOO? -Tom

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

...And to answer my own question [using my new-found power of strace ;-)] they are basically the same in terms of speed, getp is not substantially faster. So, Michael must have something else in mind... -Tom On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: On Feb 25, 2013

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd delay with Linuxcnc Master branch on 12.04/Xenomai vs 10.04/rtai

On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Am 25.02.2013 um 21:33 schrieb Tom Easterday: That said: what exactly is the tuning effort about? There are various ways to access pins, and I think pretty much all of them would be orders of magnitude faster than

[Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

I have a problem that looks like either process scheduling, or buffering, some sort of blocking on a linuxcnc host running 12.04/Xenomai and 2.6.0pre. It does not display this problem on 10.04/RTAI and 2.6.0pre (same base hardware, an intel atom board). The symptom is that when continuously

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

Let me re-ask the question, for which I gave too much prior information. Apologies for that. Are there pre-built packages for RTAI on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise? -Tom On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Tom, Am 20.02.2013 um 20:29 schrieb Tom Easterday

Re: [Emc-developers] [Xenomai] Announcing beta x86 Xenomai kernel packages: squeeze, precise, lucid

fetch and install the required packages The instructions for installing the Xenomai kernel are at XenomaiKernelPackages . I must say I preferred what was there yesterday. For one, the instructions were MUCH more clear. And 2 they worked, unlike these. I tried to install this a system

Re: [Emc-developers] [Xenomai] Announcing beta x86 Xenomai kernel packages: squeeze, precise, lucid

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Tom, Am 14.02.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Tom Easterday: fetch and install the required packages The instructions for installing the Xenomai kernel are at XenomaiKernelPackages . I must say I preferred what

Re: [Emc-developers] [Xenomai] Announcing beta x86 Xenomai kernel packages: squeeze, precise, lucid

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Am 14.02.2013 um 17:36 schrieb Tom Easterday: On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Tom, Am 14.02.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Tom Easterday: fetch and install the required packages

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

I spent the day playing with this on the Intel Atom D2700MUD. I rebuilt the system using the rtos-integration-preview3-merged-into-master branch. I rebuilt it for another reason (stupid graphics fubar) and figured I would try this branch for the heck of it. Neither no-halt nor idle=poll had

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai/linuxcnc build fail

On Feb 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: 'xenomai and linuxcnc' translates into which git branch? rtos-integration-preview3 The debian packaging still needs work. For now, installing the dependencies must happen manually; maybe this helps:

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai/linuxcnc build fail

On Feb 12, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: I assume it is still recommended that one turn off hyperthreading and/or add isolcpus to the kernel? My latency numbers (Intel Atom D2700MUD) are horrible (Base thread 119,168 ns) without any modification. I disabled

[Emc-developers] Xenomai/linuxcnc build fail

Was following instructions on wiki page to build xenomai and linuxcnc on a clean install of 12.04 on an Intel D2700MUD Mini-ITX and ran into these issues (and fixes) and ultimate failure... -Tom (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NewRTInstall) ===

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai raspberrypi

Thanks. -Tom On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Am 09.02.2013 um 00:36 schrieb Matt Shaver: On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 22:48:49 -0500 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: Michael, I recall seeing a message from you a while back saying you had given up

Re: [Emc-developers] gscreen merged to master

How can I run this, Chris? I pulled the latest off the buildbot and changed our config according to your instructions on the wiki but gscreen doesn't seem to be in there anywhere (I can't find the executable). -Tom On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:54 AM, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] gscreen merged to master

On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: Did you remember to . scripts/rip-environment in the terminal? Yes. If you load a config it should be linuxcnc 2.6 something. Yes, it is 2.6.pre There is also sample configs in sim/gscreen, sim/gscreen_custom

Re: [Emc-developers] gscreen merged to master

On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: Tom is running debs from the buildbot, so he should not run the rip-environment script. Tom, make sure you've installed a 2.6~pre deb, not a 2.5 deb. You can check what you currently have installed by running this:

Re: [Emc-developers] gscreen merged to master

On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: Sorry Tom I led you down the dark path with the .script/rip command I'm so used to run-in-place :) I'm not sure what going on. So you are saying I shouldn't use the rip script? Why wouldn't run in place work? -Tom

Re: [Emc-developers] gscreen merged to master

help! -Tom On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: On 2/6/13 12:24 , Tom Easterday wrote: Hmm, when I type dpkg -s linuxcnc | grep Version it tells me Version 1: 2.5.1. If I don't type . ./rip-enviromment from within ~/linucnc-dev/scripts then linuxcnc

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC web interface

On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:12 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2013 00:08, Peter Jensen jensen_rem...@yahoo.com wrote: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Rockhopper_Web_Server I only just got round to looking at this. It's fairly cool. However, what surprised me

[Emc-developers] Problems with installing package for camunits-plugins-emc

Pavel (psha): Thanks for updating the package name for the camunits-plugins-emc but there appears be a problem (still). If I try to install camunits-plugins-emc it says it depends on linuxcnc-sim. When I tried to install linuxcnc-sim, it instead installed linuxcnc-fake-sim and removed

Re: [Emc-developers] gremlin.py documentation

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Chris Morley wrote: GladeVCP has a gremlin widget. It will display as a lathe if the INI switch statement is present. you can zoom, rotate, pan and clear the plot using a mouse and mouse buttons. you pick the view in Glade but at the moment can only change the

Re: [Emc-developers] gremlin.py documentation

Chris, I was toying with the idea of having a glade UI. Seems like most of the functionality is there minus the Preview window. I just wanted to understand how gremlin works and how one might modify it. Tom On Feb 16, 2012, at 2:28 AM, Chris Morley wrote: Tom what info are you looking for?

[Emc-developers] very tiny nit in 2.5 docs

User Manual V2.5, 2012-02-13 pg 127/186 Q - naive came tolerance should be Q - naive cam tolerance -Tom-- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft

Re: [Emc-developers] Odd behaviour

On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: A chap on the forum is having trouble with his gantry. It basically seems to f-error as soon as he goes into world mode. If it doesn't f-error then, it does so when he tries to jog at any speed other that very slowly. He can jog as fast as he

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

I was having some issues with tuning servos with CUI encoder that are connected to Geckos and talked with Mariss. He said the the mounting interface of the CUI encoder can slip and has too much play (backlash) in it. He suggested putting a drop of super glue on the edge of the plastic piece

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

On Jun 19, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:40:02 -0600 From: s...@highlab.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity Chris Morley wrote: I'm having a little problem with a