anybody using chilipeppr on chrome os?

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  • December 13, 2016 at 9:42 pm #10080
    crchisholm
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    After over 35 years working on Microsoft products, I am always looking for new and innovative ways not to. The chrome os looks interesting (after a whopping half your research) and wonder if anyone has tried using chilipeppr on this os.

    December 14, 2016 at 5:35 am #10083
    cmcgrath5035
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    I don’t recall seeing anyone trying this and have no direct experience.
    Chrome browser, on Winx, Linux and MACOS has always been the defacto preferred browser for the GUI. Firefox usually works well as well as Safari, Win IE not so much.
    The critical issue could be compatibility with the serial port json server – SPJS. It is compiled for X86 machines running Windows, Linux and MAC as well as RasPi running on ARM.
    Do you have a Chromebook you propose to use, or is your target X86?
    If I recall correctly, a target for ChromeOS was Web interface for highly portable, lower power machines.
    SPJS handles all the low level heavy duty I/O, can be marginal on overly ‘thin’ clients. For example, SPJS was too much load for a RasPi !, but runs well on the more recent RasPi 2.

    You might query here:

    December 14, 2016 at 8:04 am #10085
    crchisholm
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    Actually, you hit my concern on the nose. My guess is that it would work great for chillipeppr but spjs would probobly render that pointless.

    My 3D printers use a Rambo controller attached to a headless RP2 that I connect to via wifi, which will probobly be the approach I take with the CNC (if I can ever get past the build issues – now it’s the spindle), but always looking to do something I have not yet done.

    December 14, 2016 at 9:02 pm #10090
    cmcgrath5035
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    RP2 with wireless (wifi) connect makes a Superb SPJS host.
    You could, of course, try running Chilipepper web app (the GUI) on your Chromebook and communicate with your RP2 running SPJS to connect to tinyG

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