On Wednesday 03 June 2020 00:18:05 Lawrence Glaister wrote: > Hi Gene, > One thing to mention about your printer that seems to have been > missed: The USB connector... when you plug a usb cable between your PC > and the printer (usually micro) USB connector, the printer looks like > a serial port device to the PC. > Using a program such as repetier-host (https://www.repetier.com/) and > the USB connected printer will allow you direct control of the printer > such as jogging, heater controls etc. The repetier host also lets you > load a gcode file produced by your slicer and to stream the gcode to > the printer over the USB serial line while giving you a 3D progress > plot similar to axis. You dont need to use a raspi and octoprint > although that works well if your development computer is not within > USB cable distance of your printer. > Lots of ways to do things. With using the serial connection, you dont > need to worry about using the sdcard, although I have cursed a few > times when I moved my chair in the middle of a long print job and > pulled the USB cable out!. > The SD card is handy if you set up a room full of printers in > production mode and not bother with computer connections for each > printer. > > cheers > Lawrence > I have a 10 meter boosted usb cable, but it doesn't end in that plug style, so I'd have to get another hub and a otg adapter cable. But this cable is only usb-2. Would it work with a hub and adapter?
Thanks Lawrence > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
