Homing with gantry and absolute encoders

Hi Andy

How does Absolute encoder homing work? Is there a way to show the joint position as a comparison to the absolute encoder all the time (i.e. if I move the motors manually while the machine is off, the position is updated when linuxcnc starts up again?)

My home switches are not fantastically accurate so I would like to make use of the always powered absolute encoders I have on my motors.

I'm running in Step gen and not using closed loop/ velocity mode.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If you have absolute encoders then you can home once and then never home again with the right INI config.

Just look for the HOME_ABSOLUTE_ENCODER options here:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/config/ini-co...t__lt_num_gt_section

Hi, do you have an ini file as an example of a right INI config for absolute encoders? thanks a lot.

Here is one, but the difference is literally adding a new line in each joint section.