Setting up the Stepperonline A6 battery encoder cable

since the linuxCNC is not part of the process, its input pins cannot be part of it either, and just wanted to confirm that.

I'm inferring that the HAL file has the home switches connected to both LCNC and the drives' digital input:

net X-home-sw            <= lcec.0.10.din-4      #physical digital input on Beckhoff EL1018?
net X-home-sw            => joint.0.home-sw-in   #LCNC joint home switch pin (motion.comp)
net X-home-sw            => lcec.0.5.dout-0      #physical digital output on Beckhoff EL2008?

@Andrax has not mentioned any drive connections explicitly, but the only reason I can imagine sending the home switch signal to a physical output is to signal the drive.  Unless I'm mistaken, a drive's digital input is the only way a drive 'knows' when the home switch is triggered.

Which begs the question - why is the home switch also connected to LCNC joint.N.home-sw-in?

Maybe to do LCNC homing first, then move on to cia402 (internal) homing, and finally absolute encoder homing?