Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2019 22:15:29 TJoseph Powderly wrote: > Gene > I cant find units comp either, nor can google so far, > So write one > List all the pins connected to it ( by browsing .hal) > then look ar > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/python-interface.html#_linuxc

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2019 21:47:28 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 02:06, Phillip Carter > > wrote: > > I think this is the units you are referring to: < > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units < > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units>> > > No., it's a HAL component. (his

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2019 21:03:34 Phillip Carter wrote: > > On 18 Oct 2019, at 9:58 am, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > And I still need that units conversion module, or I have to cobble > > it up with a couple scale's and a mux4 some of which can go in the > > slower jog- thread. But that

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene I cant find units comp either, nor can google so far, So write one List all the pins connected to it ( by browsing .hal) then look ar http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/python-interface.html#_linuxcnc_stat_attributes especially program_units (returns integer) - one of

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Phillip Carter
> On 18 Oct 2019, at 12:47 pm, andy pugh wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 02:06, Phillip Carter > wrote: > >> >> I think this is the units you are referring to: < >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units < >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units>> > > > No., it's a HAL component.

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 02:06, Phillip Carter wrote: > > I think this is the units you are referring to: < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units>> No., it's a HAL component. (his HAL is trying to "loadusr" it). I have no idea what it does. --

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Phillip Carter
> On 18 Oct 2019, at 9:58 am, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I still need that units conversion module, or I have to cobble it up > with a couple scale's and a mux4 some of which can go in the slower jog- > thread. But that can wait till I've transplanted the pi4 into the lathe. > I think

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2019 10:40:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2019 10:04:39 andy pugh wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:31, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > loadusr units > > > But much later when the postgui.hal was ran, where I have this > > > line: #netdisplay-mode

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2019 10:04:39 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > loadusr units > > But much later when the postgui.hal was ran, where I have this line: > > #netdisplay-mode<= units.prog_mm=> pyvcp.x-in-mm > > Where did this HAL file

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > loadusr units > But much later when the postgui.hal was ran, where I have this line: > #netdisplay-mode<= units.prog_mm=> pyvcp.x-in-mm Where did this HAL file come from? I have never previously heard of a hal component called

[Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I've managed to get a prempt-rt kernel built and installed on an rpi4. Then I just installed a locally made on that pi, linuxcnc. There was no reported error result from a line in my hal: loadusr units But much later when the postgui.hal was ran, where I have this line: #net