Hello everyone
The tft screen is tiny and I have trouble focusing on it either way with or without my glasses. Is there a bigger screen that will plug into the SKR Pro board and connect fairly easy without me having to write software/firmware. I don’t mind loading new firmware just not editing it.
OR a way I can send it to a pc/raspi so I could just separate it from the machine
You can use cncjs on a connected raspberry pi to control the machine. You can run the cncjs server on the pi, and have the desktop and connect to it from the browser on the same pi. Or you can just run the server headless (without a monitor) and use a laptop/tablet/phone to control it.
so I would need to connect a raspi to the board ? then connect via wifi
Yeah. I made a pi image a while ago called v1pi. But I haven’t updated it recently.
Thanks, I clicked on that link last night and never came back to say thank you. But this will work for me.
So I started using CNCjs with the V1Pi, I’m trying to figure out how to upgrade or update cncjs myself with no such luck yet, if cncjs is not in a repository then I’m not sure how, if it would even work that way. since I’m not sure how you set this up, if I would even understand. Most of the time I would just download the new applimage and reinstall. When i open cncjs in the web browser it says update available but no way or instructions to upgrade to the next version.
Usually I only do my installs through the terminal and have been using linux for 15-20yrs, So if it’s not too complicated, I would like to know how to. I typically keep everything updated every few months, most software and my os.
I installed it via npm. The whole image needs a rebuilt with the latest versions. I haven’t done that in a long time…
That’s ok, I can figure out some other ways, or at least have fun trying. At this point I’m installing a desktop on the pi so I can navigate around without having to get 2 inches from the screen to read it. once I’m in there then the files should be accessible some how, I would think. I’ll play with it for a while
Thanks for getting back to me.