Ghost in my machine...? (BUSTED)

Still nothing but alarm lock continuously scrolling

Ok, there must still be a communications error what OS are you running?

high sierra 10.13.3

Is your serial port configured for any flow control method (XON/XOFF) etc? grbl doesn’t do flow control.

Do you have an up to date JAVA module installed? (UGCS depends on JAVA).

Do you have a Windows computer we could try to see if it will connect?

not sure what your talking about flow control, above my head at the moment

i will check for updates on java but should be

and all i have besides mac is a chromebook at the moment…dont think that will work?

yes, says newest version of java

I’m not very familiar with the Mac.

Change UGCS to the “Machine Control” tab, bring your machine up, and press the “$H” button on that tab.

That will cause a homing cycle. Be ready to turn your machine off if things go bad. If that is successful, then go back to the “Commands” tab and do the $$ to show the grbl parameters and post them here.

I didn’t see the baud rate issue at first so no to Xloader.

I have never seen the default baud rate be what you had though.

I think it’s something with the serial port OS configuration.

I don’t recall ever seeing the alarm lock scroll the window unless it’s somehow sending a command in the background or something.

nothing at all happened when $H button pushed…

if it is the serial port, whats the remedy?

I’d rule out UGS as the issue. Can you try the Arduino IDE?
I’m not a Mac guy, but can’t you use the built in “Terminal” for serial communication?

ok, dowloaded, guessing i did this right

Make sure UGS is not connected and Easel is closed.
Tools—>Port, select the port your controller is connected to.
Click that magnifying glass in top right.
Change baud to 115200

whoops

$$ Command

Did you enter something before the $$? There is a error statement message at the beginning.

Try $X

Is this a new machine you are just bringing up, or has it been working before and this problem just started?

$X, got this, may have got to froggy and $H, machine moved, went to home…

error: Alarm lock
error: Alarm lock
[Caution: Unlocked]
ok
ALARM: Homing fail
ok

Grbl 1.0c [’$’ for help]
[’$H’|’$X’ to unlock]
[Caution: Unlocked]
ok
<Idle,MPos:1.000,1.000,-1.000,WPos:711.250,698.550,46.831,Pin:000|1|0000>

i may have, i have sausage fingers and its dark…

new machine, working for the past month with no issues other than typical adjustments. go to carve today and this.

Set $22=0 for now. That will turn off homing and we can see if there is another error that is occurring.