I hook up the EaserCAT 2000 module to the lathe and make it work. As always when I do things, it is complicated and difficult, but there is a way forward.
Great work, I came across your project as I'm doing almost the exact same thing. I have it under control hardware wise but it's luck I came across this for the work you've done on the software. I did want to mention your issue with the index pin as if I'm understanding what you did by creating the index-enable latch as a HAL component I don't think that's actually what you want to do. The index-enable is supposed to be implemented in the controller firmware. Reason being the LinuxCNC side cannot reliably catch an index pulse, that's why the index-enable exists. It's the same way on Mesa cards but index enable is done on the FPGA as the hardware will catch the index pulse and trigger the latch far better than you can on the PC side.
You are smoothing my way, I was thinking at some point to use ethercat for my lathe, but I needed 3 encoder cards from Beckhoff and the price for those alone was almost 2x the price of mesa. Plus that you need to wait an eternity for them. Not sure how stable is the linuxcnc ethercat, if its suitable for an industrial machine. Thanks for all the inspiring work!
Touch will act as a mouse, but if you want multi touch, things get more complicated. I have two displays that are multi touch capable but I have not managed to get multi touch on neither of them. They are elo and iiyama
Great work, I came across your project as I'm doing almost the exact same thing. I have it under control hardware wise but it's luck I came across this for the work you've done on the software. I did want to mention your issue with the index pin as if I'm understanding what you did by creating the index-enable latch as a HAL component I don't think that's actually what you want to do. The index-enable is supposed to be implemented in the controller firmware. Reason being the LinuxCNC side cannot reliably catch an index pulse, that's why the index-enable exists. It's the same way on Mesa cards but index enable is done on the FPGA as the hardware will catch the index pulse and trigger the latch far better than you can on the PC side.
You are smoothing my way, I was thinking at some point to use ethercat for my lathe, but I needed 3 encoder cards from Beckhoff and the price for those alone was almost 2x the price of mesa. Plus that you need to wait an eternity for them.
Not sure how stable is the linuxcnc ethercat, if its suitable for an industrial machine.
Thanks for all the inspiring work!
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Hi, what Debian are you using? Have you installed the drivers for your touch monitor? Could you help install it under Debian 12?
first lesson in the community, dont ask everyone for personal 1 to 1 help for free....
Touch will act as a mouse, but if you want multi touch, things get more complicated. I have two displays that are multi touch capable but I have not managed to get multi touch on neither of them. They are elo and iiyama