G-Code to turn machine OFF

Thank you for the prompt replies, making progress

I created a M130 code with
It works the first time but then doesn't work again until you close and reopen LinuxCNC, Even when it's working however it only toggles machine power (F2) where I'm trying to toggle E-stop (F1)

I found this
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Halui
estop:

halui.estop.activate bit //pin for setting Estop (emc internal) On
halui.estop.reset bit //pin for resetting Estop (emc internal) Off
halui.estop.is-reset bit //pin for displaying Estop state (emc internal) On/Off?

usingIt does exactly what I want however not consistently. I can load LinuxCNC, F1 - Estop, F2 - toggle machine power, F5 - MDI, M130 and does exactly what it should
If I then F1 - Estop, F2 - toggle machine power, M130 a second time the M130 does nothing.

So it works but it only appears to work the first time for each session but won't work a second time. Am I missing something obvious here ?

I would try something like:

halui expects the pin to toggle.

Chris M

cmorley wrote:

I would try something like:

#! /bin/bash
halcmd setp halui.machine.off 0
halcmd setp halui.machine.off 1
exit 0

halui expects the pin to toggle.

Chris M

Booya, we have a winner !

Okay so tried that code, didn't work but it led me to the answer

M130M129M300
M129 effectively resets the Pin, but M129 then M130 straight after appears to try too quickly before the M129 has reset the pin and it doesn't work

M300 resets the pin, turns off coolant & spindle, waits 5 seconds for them to spin down then hits the E-Stop

I'm now one step closer to having it all set exactly how I want, thank you for the help

5-7 seconds of untrou states that is a real whear behavior even on e-stop

E-stop is e-stop
then user shoudt take action non Mcode state changes after this

Why at all shoudt the G-code trigger e-stop
this is mashine and safty issue non g-code related

im with you at M9 M5 M30

the Mashine off as on large printings 24+ hr is here a Realy that shuts the complete power down

g-code mashine issues behavior is real wheard

andypugh wrote:

Try doing it all in the bash script, but re-set the pins afterwards.

I gave your code a try as it seemed a bit more elegant then my solution but for some reason the sleep command doesn't work in the bash script.

If I even try justthen the code still runs but it seems to ignore the sleep command and just toggles it off straight away as if sleep wasn't there.

I also tried sleep 5s but no dice either.

get a
sleep --help

and somtimes the wrong bash sleep versions
sleep --version

Ok I feel like an idiot now...
I have a G-code folder that I use to transfer G-code from my main computer to the milling computer, I have then been doing my custom M code files in the linuxcnc/nc_files folder
Forgot that it checks the default folder first, which was the G-code folder and I had a duplicate in there so when I was editing the one in the nc_files folder it wasn't doing anything as it was reading the one from my G-code folder first.

Sleep works fine now that I have solved the operator error.

I was still having trouble with andypugh's script not working, it seemed to work once then when I ran it a second time it wouldn't turn the machine off. I used a simplified and probably not quite as graceful script but doing

seems to do exactly what I want so I will leave it at that for now.

Thanks again for the help