Hi Everyone,
I have a couple Shapeoko 3s that I currently use Universal Gcode Sender to run from one computer concurrently. Is it possible to do something like that with Chilipeppr? Would I have to set up a second JSON Server somehow? When I try opening a second instance of the "serial-port-json-server’ program it just defaults to the first one that is already open.
Thanks,
Andrew
There’s a checkmark button on the right side of the serial port widget that you can check in a 2nd browser to connect to the other shapeoko. So, if you open a 2nd browser window and then connect to the serial port it’ll go green as the default, which may throw off the 1st browser window, but just go back to the 1st and re-click the check mark to set it as green.
Alternately, you could run spjs on an alternate port for the 2nd box, and connect to that spjs from a 2nd browser window.
Another idea, if you’re running 2 of the same jobs is write a macro that taps into the /jsonSend pubsub and sends the data redundantly to the 2nd serial port at the same time and you can get 2 machines running from one job with the same gcode getting uploaded.
Awesome, Thanks John! I got the checkmark method to work after a little bit of fiddling. Do you or anyone have experience running two instances of Chilipeppr and might be able to share some best practices? I had issues with UGS locking up on me and the only solution was shutting off the power to the CNC controller. I’m hoping it’s not a limitation of the hardware and just the gcode sender glitching out randomly. I’ll play around with it anyways and hopefully it works out. Thanks Again!
What is your use case? Are you running the same job on 2 machines at same time? Or are you running 2 separate jobs on 2 machines?
I’m running two separate jobs on two separate Shapeokos profiling around various shapes for Christmas ornaments out of acrylic. So each machine has to be independent and I reload a different g-code file for each ornament. I got it set up and working last night, but had some issues calling up the second job into Chilipeppr. It would revert back to mm mode after finishing the file and when I would try to change back to inches I had some issues with it stopping the other machine. Not sure if Chilipeppr is reading something in my g-code file at the end that UGS just disregarded, I’ll actually have to open it up and see what the end final commands are.