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I have an X-Carve, with some software that I wrote to drive it with a Raspberry Pi.
My machine (and the Pi) are in my garage, and I connect to it over WiFi from a
different room in the house. It is running Grbl 1.1g. Love it, works fine. Except for...
A few times now I've turned on the Pi and the router and I walk back to my office
and connect to the Pi over WiFi and start the GCode feed.
Since the Pi is plugged into the controller, it apparently powers the CPU and GRBL
responds; however, the stepper motors are not powered. As a result I start up a
cut, then come back only to find that the router hasn't moved because I forgot to
turn on the power to the X-Carve controller.
Is there a way to query the system to determine if the motors have power?
Thanks,
My machine (and the Pi) are in my garage, and I connect to it over WiFi from a
different room in the house. It is running Grbl 1.1g. Love it, works fine. Except for...
A few times now I've turned on the Pi and the router and I walk back to my office
and connect to the Pi over WiFi and start the GCode feed.
Since the Pi is plugged into the controller, it apparently powers the CPU and GRBL
responds; however, the stepper motors are not powered. As a result I start up a
cut, then come back only to find that the router hasn't moved because I forgot to
turn on the power to the X-Carve controller.
Is there a way to query the system to determine if the motors have power?
Thanks,