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I am looking for a possible method for EMC to be 'set' to auto close after completion of a ngc file.

The reason for this is so I can have that computer completely shutdown (and auto shutdown the CNC controllers) after a long strenuous cut process.

I have been looking through the source (EMC2 v2.5.0~pre) to see if I could find a method to trigger this via an entry in the hal*.ini file. That way it will not always shutdown after a cut unless I chose the custom setup. (clone the ini file and have it load one or the other depending on if I'm going to be running an all night cut or a short cut)

Is this something that anyone else has thought about or already implemented?

Dan

ItsDrone wrote:
I think you could probably do it with a custom M code.
Just call a shell script that shuts everything down..

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M100-to-M199:

Shoot!

I didn't even know there was custom commands that would allow sh to be run!

This wasn't what I was thinking of but it sure will do the job!!

And even do the other half of my issue!

Thanks!

Dan