Set my board to Client - Can't access now

So I have the V1E Jackpot board for my newly built LR4. Couldn’t get USB access, so I accessed via the wifi connection. Great. Got it to move via the web GUI. Tried to get it on my network, and I decided to set it to Client rather than STA>AP. Don’t know why I did this… it was late. I’m in no way a coder, developer, or have experience with Arduino/networks/etc.

Now I cannot access the board at all. I’m at a loss at this point… and I can’t seem to find a simple way to get this thing accessible.

Any help is appreciated.

We should figure out why your USB access doesn’t work.

That said, if you set the board to STA>AP, and it connected correctly to your WiFi then it will have an IP on that netowrk. In most case, that means you can find your machine at http://fluidnc.local/ in your browser.

If it failed to connect to your WiFi, then it should have fallen back to AP mode and you should see it as a network named FLUIDNC (or whatever you renamed it to.)

If you can’t find the Web UI with fluidnc.local, then the only remaining options are to log into your WiFi AP and see what DHCP address it gave out, do a ping scan to find hosts and try them one at a time, or to connect USB and look with FluidTerm.

Did you install the USB drivers for the board?

So I think that’s the problem. I don’t know why I did it in the fog of last night, but I switched it from STA>AP to Client. Which, I believe, is what’s driving my problem of being inaccessible.

In terms of access, I believe my problem is I was trying to follow directions on the walkthru by using ArduinoIDE and Repetier. I ‘believe’ I got Arduino to recognize the board but I could never get Repetier to connect… so I gave up on the USB option.

Reiterating that I am a true n00b here… USB and FluidTerm… sounds promising? Not quite sure where to start though…

I believe so? I followed the directions on the original step by step guide. I am a 2015 Macbook Pro Retina user… so I’m absolutely sure that’s contributing to the issue. I believe I got ArduinoIDE to recognize it… however I could never get Repetier to connect. So I gave up on that route after discovering I could completely avoid this.

Have you looked through this? It has lots of good information about the Jackpot.
https://docs.v1e.com/electronics/jackpot/

Download and install the Mac OS driver. Then you should be able to connect with Fluidterm over USB.

Fluidterm can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC/releases/download/v3.9.2-pre1/fluidnc-v3.9.2-pre1-posix.zip

Where are you seeing directions to use ArduinoIDE and Repetier in any way, shape, or form with a Jackpot board?

Did you try connecting to http://fluidterm.local/ ?

Setup - V1 Engineering Documentation is where I’m referencing. Maybe I went too far down the ‘follow directions’ rabbit hole?

Let me hook up and try that…

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A note for @vicious1 - that page is really out of date in light of the Jackpot board.

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So I plugged up directly via USB. Tried both http://fluidnc.local and http://fluidterm.local/ and both returned ‘This site can’t be reached’.

So to be clear, I added my wifi and wifi password. But I changed the ‘Wifi/Mode’ from ‘STA>AP’ to ‘Client’, which has now caused my issue of inaccessibility… Screenshot of someone else’s UI below for the reference.

If your USB drivers work, you can connect the ESP32 to your computer with USB.

Go to http://installer.fluidnc.com and there should be a page there to help you configure the wifi back to AP mode.

Or you can just open the terminal window on the site and hit the reset button on the ESP32, and you’ll see the IP it is using in the startup log.

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Even after downloading the driver from above (Britt’s post), it seems my Macbook is still not recognizing the USB as a Serial Comms port. I feel like that’s the issue at this point to connect via USB.

Not all usb cables are data cables, some only charge - just something to check.

Yep, I’ve tried 3 different cables, two of which I know transmit data from old cameras. Still no luck.

The Silicon Labs driver is installed and active. Cord is hooked in. Lights are green on the board.

After doing the above, the installer site does not find a device.

Am I missing something else? Like I said above… I have the Silicon Labs driver installed and removed the block in System Preferences per the guide.

Is there a way to reset the ESP32 back to the received settings (bought from V1) without having to completely re-install everything on a blank board - since my USB isn’t working at the moment?

Did you download fluidnc-v3.9.2-pre1-posix.zip?

After you download it: open the Terminal and go to the folder and enter these lines with your username:

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THANK YOU! Between this and switching around to different cords, I finally got it. Everything is in working order now and the machine is moving again!

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To further elaborate, once I completed the command from above, I then checked the WiFi/mode setting by typing ‘$Wifi/Mode’ which produced what it was in. I then changed the WiFi mode by typing ‘$Wifi/Mode=AP’ and then restarted the ESP32. Boom. Back online.

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