V1PI CNC.js Remotely Accessing the Watch Directory

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This is the post I was thinking of:

Minnesota Lowrider: Full-sized fun in the Twin Cities - or - How I convinced the wife to let me build a CNC table

I’m using v1pi to control my LR2 and manage the cuts. I’ve been having issues with some fairly large and complex cut files, and have been unable to load them via a web browser, as the CNCjs web interface crashes, disrupting the upload. The solution for this is to enable a “Watch Directory” and upload the files via SFTP or SCP from my system. CNCjs supports looking for files in a folder on the system, and you can load them from there through the web interface. You upload the files to this folde…