Re:pncconf - feature requests

Perumal-insten wrote: I don't know, if at all Mesa selling these cards, they could have developed some kind of graphical interface to get this things done.

The Mesa cards are general-purpose IO cards. They can be used for many other applications than LinuxCNC. I believe thatLinuxCNC is a minority user of Mesa hardware.
So, the configuration problems are not due to Mesa, who simply provide hardware, but with LinuxCNC. LinuxCNC is an open-source project where things get done for free by people who are feeling helpful and have the time.

In this case the volunteer who has written PNCconf doesn't have a 7i92, so is not in a position to configure PNCconf to support it.

It seems to me that you do have a 7i92, so if you would like to modify PNCconf to support the 7i92, that would be great

request for supporting 5i24 & 7i80db.
Thank you.

One feature I would request and sorry if I have missed it, is a servo fault input, I guess ideally an input per axis would be nice otherwise a global fault input signal for step/dir servo drives. I am currently setting up such a machine and tried to tie the servo fault from the drives to the estop in signal as I couldn't see a drive fault input option, but that removed the existing estop input, seems there can only be one estop in signal.

A workaround could be to link the fault signal to a limit switch but it would be nice to have a following error report if that is what happens.

Great work otherwise, about the only thing I have to manually edit so far is the max velocity, using metric 100mm/min is way too slow for anything, but I am getting quick at editing the .ini file.

Cheers.

Russell.

epineh wrote: I am currently setting up such a machine and tried to tie the servo fault from the drives to the estop in signal as I couldn't see a drive fault input option, but that removed the existing estop input, seems there can only be one estop in signal.

It isn't clear which pins you have tried to use, but for each axis there is a pin
axis.N.amp-fault-in

You can also look at:
iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in
halui.estop.activate

Can that be done inside Pncconf ?

Being a new machine I am using Pncconf a lot to change settings, as I am setting it up bit by bit.

If I edit it manually I will lose the change once Pncconf is run again.

Request for supporting xml files generated by mesaflash.
Thanks.