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Post your hal file to a message so we can look at it.

Pin names must be exactly as you see them in show hal configuration with dots and dashes and underscores in the correct place. There is a guideline for programmers on how to format pin names but that doesn't matter for a user.

Signal names (created by users) iirc can be any combination of letters, numbers, dash, underscore or period.

linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal/basic_hal....#_net_a_id_sub_net_a

Oh, stop pulling your hair out and pull on the fishes hair then fry them.

John

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I don't see anything wrong in your hal file. I assume that your loading halui in your ini file with

HALUI = halui

linuxcnc.org/docview/html/config/ini_con...id_sub_hal_section_a

Open up a watch window and put the parallel port pin in the watch window and cycle the machine power.

John

Hal Configuration/pins/halui/machine/is-on shows the watch light changing from red to yellow OK.

Hal Configuration/pins/parport/0/pin-16-out shows no change. light stays red.

HALUI = halui is in the ini file. Here is the .ini file. I have made no entries to the .ini. Carl This attachment is hidden for guests. Please log in or register to see it.

I see nothing strange in your ini and it looks ok.

What about the signal when you put it into a watch window what do you see?

John

Hi

You have posted hal files called Carl_s_hal.hal and Carl_s_CNC.hal whereas the .ini file names your .hal file as
Carl's_CNC.hal

Linux is literal and case sensitive plus having an apostrophe in a file name breaks file naming conventions.

Is Linuxcnc finding the file you mean it to, or does it keep reading one called Carl's_CNC.hal which is why none of the changes you make in another slightly differently named file work?

regards

I commented out your estop input and changed the signal name

net machine-is-on halui.machine.is-on => parport.0.pin-16-out
# net estop-ext <= parport.0.pin-10-in-not

and put the estop loop back in

net estop-out => iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in

and commented out both your custom and postgui as well as your joystick.

And the attached files work fine for me now.

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I renamed everything to carl

Swapped the files.
Well that worked! now, How do I get my joypad back?

Now you got me pulling chest hairs out. What's next??

In your main ini file uncomment the last line by removing the # in front of loadusr.

Test run that.

John