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Control Black Box via Android Tablet with USB

Discussion in 'Control Software' started by Alberto Colom Torres, Nov 23, 2020.

  1. Alberto Colom Torres

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    Good afternoon,
    I am building a machine with all OpenBuilds components and controlled by Black Box, I need our machine to be able to move throughout our installation and for this I want to integrate a small tablet with USB to connect to the BlackBox of our CNC. The tablet has an Android operating system and from what I have seen I can access the control software if it is loaded on a computer as a server via http: // ip_server: 3000.
    Can you tell me if this will work and from the tablet load a Gcode file to send to the CNC?
    Thanks a lot for your time
     
  2. Peter Van Der Walt

    Peter Van Der Walt OpenBuilds Team
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    Our software only runs on Mac, Windows and Linux
    And yes it has a web interface that you can load up in the browser on a mobile device over LAN, but the USB/Backend still runs on the computer.

    There may be Android applications that will talk to Grbl over android-usb-otg - search Playstore for "grbl" - BlackBox runs on Grbl 1.1 Firmware, see gnea/grbl
     
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  3. Alberto Colom Torres

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    Thanks lot Peter!!!
     
  4. Giarc

    Giarc OpenBuilds Team
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    You could get a cheap windows tablet.
     

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