CNCJS is very appealing. The UI is much nicer and should be easier to extend. That plus you can use a spare Ipad to control it. Im deffo going to get this set up on my Pi400 thats just sitting on my worktable next to my CNC. This video was a handy intro thanks.
Good evening IQ, quick question after having installed CnCJs under RPI4 a few months ago, I haven't used it for 6 months....so I turn on RPi4 with the Micro SD where Twister + CnCJs is located but I can't more to find and therefore start CnCJs..A solution perhaps? Thanks to you Philip
if installed correctly the services for CNCjs "should" auto start. I installed my setup on a USB3 drive as SD cards have a limited number of read/write cycles and i have gone through a few in my time. Is it possible the SD card has gone bad?
How much quicker are Pi's booting from USB then? Is it worth the effort? I've got a little project that I need to cut the cold boot time down on and I'm at around 40seconds but can't disable anything else, do you think USB would help?
Hiya - Thanks for the comment first off, there is minimal effort in getting a Pi4 to boot from USB. If you have a spare SD card, you can bake and flash the USB boot utility inside of 5min or less. If you are using PiOS, then there is an image copy utility in the tools menu that you can transfer your current SD card to the USB (or back if you need to) - it's super straightforward. As for the performance boost, that can have many influencing factors. e.g. How fast your current SD card is, how fast the USB drive is, what the Pi is doing at boot (wait for wifi will delay the process regardless of boot media) You want to ensure you use a USB3 device and can be a flash drive or an SSD in a USB caddy. I have not specifically timed the boot up of my Pi, but it is noticeably faster both in boot time and application start times. One added feature to using USB is that dependent on the drive type, it is likely to last much longer than an SD card if there are constant read/write cycles. Trust me, I've burnt up a few SD cards with this one. Good luck
Hey! Thanks for the question. I've not used gSender so my comparison is based on the overview on their site. It looks as though gSender shares many features to CNCjs. In my use case, I needed the ability to be able to probe the surface of a copper clad board to make circuits. CNCjs runs on a raspberry pi and has the ability to be expanded with plugins for surface probing and other tasks. My suggestion would be to try both in a test environment to see which one gives you the features want/need in a UI you are comfortable with. The one that does the job and is easy to use is the right one "for you"
I had the exact same issue. In my case the plug in was monitoring the incorrect port. I had to modify index.js in the install folder to point to ttyUSB0. There are 2 places that might need to be updated
@@johnurena2863 if you changed cncjs to run on port 80 from 8000, also check index.js that the plug in is also on port 80. It has to be the same as cncjs to work
Hmmm, as some of what you said was true CNC deals with more then just milling when referred to unless if you're just getting into the start of things, I do CNC Plasma cutting there is free hand and CNC as there is with milling and anything that isn't computer numeric controlled. Then I get the burning but it's write an OS to a microsd but who am I to criticize you and how you refer to things as it might be right in your country. lol
You are correct. 3d printing, laser cutting and computer controlled milling is all cnc at a technical level. However in layman's terms people think of milling when the term cnc is used in isolation. My videos are intended for the beginner just getting started and hopefully have a broad understanding in my use case 👍
