Is there anyway to get his to work on a smoothieboard with an older firmware? I have a system that has an older 6-axis firmware that upgrading is not an option. I just want to be able to send a gcode file to it....don't need any fancy features. Thanks! [18:29:29] [ FIRMWARE ERROR ] Detected an unsupported version: Smoothieware ~11myvar2, Build date: May 6 2017 11:40:18, MCU: LPC1769, System Clock: 120MHz. This software no longer support Smoothieware. Luckilly there is an alternative firmware you can install on your controller to make it work with this software. Check out Grbl-LPC at cprezzi/grbl-LPC - Grbl-LPC is a Grbl port for controllers using the NXP LPC176x chips, for example Smoothieboards
CONTROL does not support Smoothieware at all (neither old nor new versions) Grbl-LPC is the alternative that is supported (but its not a newer version on Smoothieware, its a port of Grbl for the Smoothieboard hardware (smoothie-ware vs - board, sounds the same, very different) If you have to stay with smoothie you need smoothie compatible software (bcnc, cncjs)
ok thanks. Seems simple enough to just dump info into the serial port. I'll probably just write my own down and dirty version.
thanks. I had started writing a serial interface a few days ago and found that is was a little funky with the OK responses and I was getting a few hangups from what I was assuming was bad timing of me reading the serial port. Hopefully this code will help out with some of the handshaking.
