Latest update v1.0.321 Jacked up my entire setup (BlackBox) That has been working fine, daily and with 10-15hr run times for the past 3 months with ZERO ISSUES or connectivity problems. After update: -Lost all grbl settings, steps, work area etc... -Would not reload saved settings from before -Tried to flash The Black Box- "Flash Failed" error -After getting settings close, after jogging for 1/2 the work area (1500mm) It stops and gives me an "wait for Idle" error over and over. Need to restart Control software to start again. -After a few times testing that, I started getting the **** PORT 3 error. Restarted the PC and was able to connect untill one of the above errors randomly happened again. Now even after a restart I can no longer connect to the black box at all. -went ahead and Updated Drivers with no positive results. I want to find an older version of the control software to what I had before and an option to STOP any future updates? I'm Loosing a Massive amount of time dealing with this.
A software update cannot cause the issues you describe. Sounds more like a short circuit or power surge killed your BlackBox. Speak to http://support.openbuilds.com/support/home after going over all your wiring and finding the cause of the damage
If you are running your machine commercially for that many hours a day and it is critical to your cashflow, then you should have a spare Blackbox on the shelf and a backup of the known good GRBL settings loaded on it ready to go. Just like a backup of your PC data is critical to your business, hardware backups are also important enough to spend time and money on.
