New LinuxCNC Multi-Channel System – Looking for Testers & Feedback

getting the same errors here

Hi automata, hi NWE,

thanks a lot for trying it out and for reporting this and sorry for the trouble. You're right: the download section and the manual link on cnc.gmbh are currently broken. The site was just migrated to a new system and the file links didn't make it over correctly.

I'm fixing it right now and will post here as soon as the .deb packages, the source code and the manual are downloadable. Your registration stays valid, so no need to sign up again.

Thanks for your patience and looking forward to your feedback once you have it running!

Daniel

Download problem found and fixed

Thanks to everyone who reported that the Debian packages could not be downloaded from www.cnc.gmbh/download even when logged in. The cause is found and fixed, please try again.

What happened: the shop server read the whole package (about 30 MB) and pushed it to the browser in one piece. The web server behind the shop allows only two seconds per send operation, so on a normal internet connection the transfer was cut off before the first chunk was through. The browser then received an empty file, or nothing at all. The login itself was never the problem.


If it still does not work for you, please post the file name, your browser and roughly the time of the attempt so I can check the server log.

That seems to be working. I just finished successfully downloading the source code over my very slow internet. Soon I have a meeting with a client, so I will have to explore further later.

hi, this is very grate news,

i am in the UK,

i have a Citizen L16 laying around (did offer it on her for sale etc) its waiting for a new life as the old control boards are dead.
i'v done many linuxcnc retrofits over the years of milling & Turning for the sliding head iv been waiting for someone todo this much needed addition work. so thank you for taking this on.

i have other sliding head lathes too and multi axis spindle machines so i am willing to retrofit the old Citizen L16 and help you develop this along its road path as is needed from a lathe point of view and usage and test and help you add functions to it.

let me know how how i can help out etc

We discussed this idea at the LinuxCNC meet-up in Stuttgart (and this particular post in the video meeting just now).

One way to approach this was, we thought, to allow multiple LinuxCNC instances to share a HAL space to allow interprocess communication. At that point it feels like a HAL namespace problem. but fairly simple.

I am unclear (scanning this during the meeting) whether this is a fork, add-in or potential PR to the main LinuxCNC project.