Homemade, cheap, plasma CNC

Good, you got the important part so i did not fail entirely !
Usually the encoder pin is soemthing like
hm2_eth or hm2_pci followed by the Mesa card number and the encoder number, usually encoder.00, followed by a function or nothing.
so
hm2_7i97-encoder.00.velocity
that is of the top of my head as i can not do much right now.
It would be much easier to do a new config, you can have as many configs as you like for the same machine on the same pc, or for different machines.

Tommy - you are amazing !! Those little bits make sense in some way.
Phill - you are amazing as well !!

I went back through files and couldn't see anything that stood out. Then i realized what you said and found this line neatly organised in my external input signals. I just needed to adjust it.
# --- ARC-OK ---
net plasmac:arc-ok-in <= hm2_7i96.0.gpio.009.in

but realised that there needed to be more. kept going through and found this line that i # out for some reason. then found the missing piece in a second config i did.

net plasmac:arc-ok db_arc-ok.out => plasmac.arc-ok-in

I now have Arc-ok (led lights up in QTPLASMAC. just working through the encoder line now.

EDIT -
As above. slight change from previous codes. and much like a second language (that i can't speak) it was only possible thanks to your input and guidance.

# --- Encoder ---
net plasmac:arc-voltage-in  <= hm2_7i96.0.encoder.00.velocity

DONE !!!!!!!!! and after starting my day at 0400 this morning. I'm ready to stop work at 0020. no wonder my brain struggles to function. a few hours sleep and back to it. 

Thanks guys for getting me firing again.
 

Check in halshow to see if you have your encoder.

If you had an existing working PlasmaC config then you could migrate it to QtPlasmaC:

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/plasma/qtpl...tml#qt_modify-config

I do, it's on a PC. I spent a lot of time with the Mac setting up MX linux in the house and started the whole setup in here.

Thought about migrating, however i wanted to go from the beginning again. hopefully i'll be doing it again in a few months with a new machine.

RNJFAB wrote:

I do, it's on a PC. I spent a lot of time with the Mac setting up MX linux in the house and started the whole setup in here.
 

If you format a USB stick on your PC running Linux as EXT4 (using dd) you could copy the symbolic links to your Mac.
I have bee caught a few times with symlinks getting broken and doing it this way was perfect.