Sharing in this community - in case anyone here can help create an interface

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Sharing in this community - in case anyone here can help create an interface to display the smoothieboard web over an ESP connected to the serial port.

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Originally shared by Dushyant Ahuja

+Peter van der Walt @raykholo @Arthur_Wolf - question for the Cohesion3D Remix (which I believe is based / inspired from the Smoothiebrainz board.

What’s the best way to use the ESP8266 that’s on board. I’ve been able to send commands using the ESP-Link firmware on it, and have been able to reset the LPC, etc. What I would really like to do is:

  1. Access the Smoothie’s web interface through it. As I understand it - right now we can only access the web interface through the Ethernet interface.
  2. Alternatively setup Octoprint to print over wifi.

Can you please help me understand the process.

Also, the smoothie documentation mentions that sending Ctrl-X over the serial port would kill the print. http://smoothieware.org/killbutton
How do I send Ctrl-X over the serial port???

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There is no good way of accessing the files for the web-interface over the serial-port, you’d have to place the files to be served on the internal SPI Flash and serve them from SPIFFS. It’s not difficult, though, and it looks like the board uses an ESP-12F module, which has a 4MB SPI Flash in it – about 3MB room for the files to be served. Considering that I have zero experience with Smoothieware I have no idea how much space the files for the web-interface require.

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So, you’re not really asking anymore how to do it, but rather you’re just looking for someone to actually write the new firmware for the ESP?