aufdemrand / xmotion

GUI for Embedded Machine Control (LinuxCNC/MachineKit)

Xmotion Control HMI

Designed exclusively for our Xmotion Gen2 Embedded Control (Single-board motion control solution)

Also compatible with Rpi, Beagle Bone, or virtually any other embeded linux system. GUI runs without the need for X window system and outputs graphics directly to the framebuffer. Also reads keyboard and mouse directly from /dev/input/eventX devices

Dependencies

python

Building

LinuxCNC machine

make clean

make release

Build as "Simulator", can execute binary without LinuxCNC RTAPI Running

make clean

make sim

Build with debuging output, requires linuxcnc to be running

make clean

make debug

Configuring (This will eventually be added to make install)

mkdir /etc/Xmotion

cp config_example.ini /etc/Xmotion/config.ini

Running

Launch script (./launch) calls "linuxcnc configs/Gen2/Gen2.ini" and the Xmotion binary is called from Gen2.ini's display= setting. You need to create a linuxcnc config in the conventional way to interface with your physical machine and set your display variable to suit. I use the launch script in the dev environment to reduce iteration time. After "make install" has been issued, any linuxcnc ini in /home/$USER/linuxcnc/configs/* can have display=Xmotion instead of display=axis for ex.