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  • July 8, 2013 at 10:45 pm #4284
    justing1319
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    I see in github there are compilable default settings for a variety of hardware platforms (Shapeoko, Ultimaker, OtherLab, etc). It would be great if these could be selectively applied from the commandline through the $defa command in the same way that the $test command works.

    $defa would give you a list of possible default configs
    $defa=1 would be the current defaults
    $defa=2 would be the shapeoko defaults …and so on.

    Is this a possibility?

    July 15, 2013 at 7:31 am #4323
    alden
    Member

    We are actually working on ways of just importing JSON files to select defaults. Please “watch this space” for developments.

    What are you using to drive the board?

    July 15, 2013 at 1:45 pm #4325
    justing1319
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    That would be great.
    In the meantime I’ve converted the default settings for the ShapeOko to the individual commands and loaded them up. As it turns out that the default settings for the steppers push mine too hard. I have the 400 step/rev ones from Sparkfun and they top out at 88 RPM so I had to lower the max feed rate and travel rate down to 3200.

    I’m currently using a Raspberry Pi as the computer connected to the TinyG. I wanted to be able to load up code and walk away with my laptop. I’ve had a lot of luck streaming gcode files using plink (the CLI version of Putty).

    July 15, 2013 at 6:36 pm #4329
    alden
    Member

    Headless operation with a pi or a BeagleBone Black is definitely a possibility. There also needs to be a way to check in on the job when it’s running.

    July 15, 2013 at 11:23 pm #4332
    justing1319
    Member

    I don’t completely use it as a headless setup. What I’ve been doing is using SSH to connect to the Pi and then run Plink from there. It’s kind of like a SSH to serial bridge.
    I’ve been kicking around the idea of a web interface that would run on the Pi where a file could be uploaded and a history of the status reports could be pulled up. I’m currently struggling with the serial implementations for PHP.

    July 16, 2013 at 10:08 pm #4340
    Riley
    Keymaster

    Rob and I are both working on a NodeJS setup for a web UI. So instead of us all working on the same plumbing, we should focus on all working together on a setup here? Thoughts?

    July 17, 2013 at 10:14 am #4342
    justing1319
    Member

    That sounds great. I’ve never worked with NodeJS before but it should only take me a couple days to get up to speed. I’m compiling it for the Pi now.

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