Ok, I put gSender through its paces with my latest project, the Water Drops Clock. It performed fantastically. I recently replaced my old Thinkpad laptop, that I used with my MPCNC, with a cheap [MiniPC](Bmax Mini Pc 8Gb Ddr4 128Gb Emmc… Amazon.ie) and a [lightweight 2.5K screen](ARZOPA 2.5K Portable Monitor, 16… https://www.amazon.ie/dp/B0CJC93CH9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share). This combo works fine with gSender. I love its diagnostics screen, and its log of errors, cut time, etc. No problem at all handing control over to my ESP-NOW pendant and taking it back. I even got quick help from Sienci Labs about how to gracefully resume after a DOOR alarm. They have given us a wonderful gift!
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I assume this is not quite plug and play with the Jackpot? At least yet.
@Draggo Which files did you use to flash your SKR PRO 1.2?
I used the Web Builder https://svn.io-engineering.com:8443/?driver=STM32F4xx and used the BTT SKR Pro 1.2 (Bootloader) Board. Used the following options:
General -
- Y-axis change to Auto Squared, that sets both ganged and auto squaring
- Z-axis change to Auto Squared, as above
- Trinamic drivers change to TMC2209, R sense: 110mOhm
- Set any option for spindles if you are using the SKR to run the spindle, I’m not controlling mine through that, hoping to set it up as a USB serial port on my gsender machine later (Its a Yalang YS620 which traditionally has somewhat flakey noise induced serial port issues, so something to look at later)
Optional inputs - You can disable the options depending on what you want to have the controller run.
If you hit up the Board Map option, it will show the pins that you need to use for the set up, so from memory the only one I had to move on the physical controller was the probe, as it is configured to use the BLTouch pins PA1 and Ground, for some reason if you try to force it to use the V1E setup, it has an IRQ conflict with one of the end stops from memory, even though it works on the Marlin code… Not sure, couldn’t fix that, so moving the pin was a 10 second job and works fine.
I did have to reverse some of the inputs in gsender to make the motors spin in the right direction, this can be achieved either in software or by flipping the output pins on the controller board per V1E instruction manual.
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If you change over to grblhal it will work. I still have not had a chance to really sit down with it yet but it is 100% on my to do list, but it looks like it should work or close enough to submit a bug report and I bet it gets fixed. GRBLhal is progressing fast.
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I actually considered a second board for my OpenCNCShield just to try gsender. I’m a sucker for stats. 
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I just watched the video that @stevempotter posted in the first post. I will say it looks like some neat stuff it can do. Being able to start back from the middle of the gcode could be very handy. Its always a pain when something goes wrong to have to go back and edit things. (yes @Tokoloshe I know estlcam can do this too, but those boards are not easy to get over here 
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Now if I only had a clue of how to set it up with $codes I might give it a try on a spare board lol. Might have to just fight my way through it next time home and see what happens.
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You know, the plans are open source, you could just build one. 
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I’ve got enough unfinished projects around here. That stuff is ALL above my pay grade lol. Depending on my ADHD I might forget all about this gsender by the time I get back home in 2 weeks and be on to something else 
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Gonna remind you.
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For those who want to try grblHAL on their Jackpot board, I see that the web installer has that board in its pull-down of board options. Here is the link: grblHAL WEB BUILDER
I don’t see my new board there, Dring’s 6x CNC Controller V1.2. Has anyone worked with this controller board? If so, I would like to know which alternate board to choose that is closest to the 6x.
do you really need it? it looks like plenty of peeps are using gsender with Fluidnc.
Man oh man, they have ALOT of boards there. I wonder who worked with them on all of them!
this is fairly impressive ALSO! https://youtu.be/3LJ1njGXP9w?si=hdhqZH_4GejnhZoj
The pendant can MAKE gcode! He has operations where he fills in specifics and it creates his gcode!
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grblHAL has a MODE flag to work well with my wireless ESP-NOW pendant. FluidNC does not, so all that work developing my pendant would be wasted.
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My major question is how Grblhal got developed for the jackpot.
I also see the tinybee I am running. I wonder if the project developer bought all those boards! HAve you tried grblhal yet?
Maybe. Or perhaps the board producer sent them one. Maybe an interested user sent boards.
I’ve sent a jackpot off somewhere (not to GrblHAL). That kind of thing happens all the time.
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There is a note for the Jackpot that says “Not tested!”.
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I was planning on sending out a sample of the Jackpot2, probably both. It is international so I want to save on shipping.
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