I have been using the Openbuilds control software on a few desktop machine builds and find it to work extremely well. I’ve recently taken on responsibility for operating a Shapeoko Pro 5, a nice machine, but the control software is not as nice as Openbuilds. Has anybody successfully connected a Shapeoko to Openbuilds Control?
Have you tried connecting yet? CONTROL will work with any standard grbl/grblHAL based controller. So unless it runs 3rd party/proprietary firmware in which case we can't talk to it. It will tell you if it couldn't establish a connection. If so you might consider replacing the controller with a BlackBox docs:blackbox-x32:start [OpenBuilds Documentation] to be compatible with CONTROL
Thanks Peter - I was getting port denied errors when I tried it yesterday. Any ideas what might cause that?
Access denied means port already open in some other application (conflict) like EaselDriver. One allowed at a time. Close conflicting applications
