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To make this easier – Look on Amazon for the Atomic Pi. At the time of this writing it’s an X86 based board like the Raspberry but its running an X86 – so you don’t have to mess around … what I did was get the Atomic PI up and running, then install xrdp (apt-get install xrdp). This allows me to remote in using the Microsoft RDP protocol. There is a Remote Desktop client built in to Windows, and you can download for free a client for Mac, Android, iPad. Then I installed the Inventables driver on the Atomic PI. I also set in my wifi configuration to make the atomic pi come up with the same IP Address every time it boots. Now I can run the atomic pi without a monitor, it sits on top of the XController.
So now I design on my mac in easel. When I want to carve, I pull up Atomic PI via RDP client on my ipad. On the atomic pi I can then pull up firefox, log in to Easel, Open the project, Jog the machine to where it needs to go. Watch as it performs the homing action, get the probe setup, turn on the spindle and start the carve. I then walk away. I can turn off the ipad, go in via RDP client from my desktop computer, the RDP session I started on the iPad is still there and I can monitor the progress from there. If I want I can switch back to RDP on the ipad.
Nice trick but i and DwayneK.Johnson need to know why that not working i try many many many things and have theory that works only on x-controler or arduino orignal because i got clone and dont know what got DwayneK.Johnson. UGS works fine but i like to use Easel on Linux.
Hmm … that strange… I dont know what to do now. I think i try all things. In serial_port_controler.js i can change port to anything and still the same. Last time change linux usb driver and nothing
Then from my Mac, I ran sudo ncat --sh-exec "ncat raspberrypi.local 1438" -l 1438 --keep-open to port forward from my Mac to my Pi and browsed to Easel from my Mac (just so I don’t have to be physically near the Pi). Everything worked without a problem.
Those of you having issues, have you tried not making any changes? If you’re still having issues, would one of you allow me to ssh into your Pi (I can provide a reverse tunnel so you don’t have to open up any ports) so that I can investigate what could be wrong?
PS, if you have Easel also installed on Mac, you’ll need to temporarily disable it by running sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Iris.Iris.plist. You can later re-enable by running sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Iris.Iris.plist
Hi SamyKamkar. I dont have Pi only desktop with xubuntu 18.04. I got that problem on both drivers, from You and Inventables. I reinstall xubuntu, try chrome and firefox and the same.
Hi @DebbieLee,
We have not tested new Ubuntu release yet. We plan to do compatibility checks in the near future. There is no plans to test other versions of Ubuntu, including Xubuntu.
Samy,
So I shouldn’t try connected to easel on the Raspberry Pi using the chromium browser? My Mac says command not found for ‘ncat’
can you edit the command to use pf?
@DwayneK.Johnson Ahh, looking further it looks like my ncat was installed via nmap from MacPorts. If you run netcat instead of ncat, does that exist or does also need to be installed? I’ll see if there’s a way to rewrite the forwarding with built-in macOS tools…
@HeathJaridLacy@LukeGunnell I’ve updated easel-driver to now support Arduino clones using the CH340 serial chip which you may have been using. The code gets updated to simulate an FTDI chip instead of the CH340 which the Easel software respects.
@DebbieLee We’ve also got confirmation from Hugo that this latest driver is working on Xubuntu and CH340 (please note this is not the official driver).
@JoseLuisKu btw it should already be running in screen -r after you ran that curl/sh command. Was it not?
You shouldn’t have to do the npm installs, but instead run . ~/.bashrc and that will load nvm/node into your shell so it will find the modules. The screen that runs should already be in that environment, and next time you log in you won’t need to do the . ~/.bashrc either.
Note that the driver automatically downloads the latest official Inventables Easel driver, then modifies it to work across additional operating systems, controllers, and USB-serial drivers, so while the git repo isn’t being updated it is always using the latest code (you can see it perform the download live during installation).
i try many many many things and have theory that works only on x-controler or arduino orignal because i got clone and dont know what got DwayneK.Johnson. UGS works fine but i like to use Easel on Linux.