EMC2 running on Raspberry Pi?

Just to throw my hat into the ring... I can get mungkie's image to boot and load axis.

Just wondering about the possibilities of having a 2 stage setup? Use a Rpi to drive the motors and ssh into it with a non-realtime device to drive the UI?

Cheers,
Rex

rexhunt wrote: Just to throw my hat into the ring... I can get mungkie's image to boot and load axis.

It works for me too, though I am not sure that the step generator is actually working properly.
Also, I haven't seen any input from mungkie for several weeks.

Just wondering about the possibilities of having a 2 stage setup? Use a Rpi to drive the motors and ssh into it with a non-realtime device to drive the UI?

Yes. Though I am fuzzy on the details. The is miniemc which is a web-server GUI that certainly works on the Beaglebone.
Also have a look at Rockhopper, which apparently can do this ( github.com/MachineryScience/Rockhopper ) and there is an Android App on the way from the same folks (apparently)

I had a play around with rockhopper yesterday. On the Pi I can get the webpage up but can't start Linuxcnc. I can get it to work fully on my laptop with Linuxcnc in simulator mode. My thoughts as to what's stopping rockhopper in the Pi are as follows:
1. Linuxcnc won't start because of a lack of x11 server locally.(I'm sshing into the Pi as I have no monitor near my CRO)
2. Linuxcnc won't start because of some problem in the configuration not letting it be run normally(I think there is some thing with it being set up to be run in place not installed which could be a problem due to a lack of /usr/bin/linuxcnc or similar)

I'm going to have a look at option 2 today, and possibly see if I can set up Linuxcnc to use a lighter weight UI then axis.

Cheers,
Rex

Ok I can confirm that Rockhopper does work and can control Linuxcnc on the Pi, because we are just running in place I have added /home/pi/emc-dev-8b9ff03/bin and /home/pi/emc-dev-8b9ff03/scripts to my PATH variable.

rexhunt wrote: Just to throw my hat into the ring... I can get mungkie's image to boot and load axis.

Just wondering about the possibilities of having a 2 stage setup? Use a Rpi to drive the motors and ssh into it with a non-realtime device to drive the UI?

Cheers,
Rex

emc2web works fine on RPi.

I'm currently using tkmini over rdesktop. It is useable provided you don't enable backplotting.

Axis can also be used as long as you disable live plot.

Cheers!

emc2web works fine on RPi.

Do you have a link? I can't seem to find it with google.

Axis can also be used as long as you disable live plot.

How do you disable that? Is it simething in the .ini file?