GRBL 1.1e support

[Pablo1]

Hi,

First of all, kudos to inventables for making this amazing app.

I've been using it for some days with an arduino/gshield CNC and GRBL 0.9j getting very good results (milling). Today I decided to upgrade it to GRBL 1.1e and benefit from some cool features like dynamic laser control.

However, I noticed that easel no longer works with my machine and GRBL 1.1e. I've checked the output console and it prints this:

Grbl 1.1e ['$' for help]
read
-> portOpened
Grbl 1.1e ['$' for help]
read
-> portOpened
Grbl 1.1e ['$' for help]
read
-> portOpened

And repeats indefinitely...

Any fix? Is there any expected easel upgrade?

I'm using the latest driver (3.2 - OSX)

[LarryM]

like dynamic laser control.

You can try this to get variable power laser work done until Easel supports 1.1e.

I haven't run this one with Easel, but Easel does work with 1.0c.

J Tech Laser integrated with X-carve grbl (Inventables/Master version 1.0c)

This is a modified version of grbl to include the J Tech variable power capabilities (J Tech grbl version 0.9g) into the Inventables Master fork of grbl 1.0c (a work in progress). Also included is the ability to switch between laser mode and spindle mode without having to reload the firmware. The .zip file contains a Readme file with more information. Please read the Readme file, it is short and contains information that you will need to use this firmware successfully. Many thanks go to thos…

[JeremySimmons]

Anyone succesfully using GRBL 1.1e or later?

[JeremySimmons]

nevermind. seems to be advertised as working here:

Hey y'all! As of this afternoon, Easel should now connect to grbl v1.1e and v1.1f when using version 0.3.3 of the Easel Driver. The list of new features in grbl v1.1 can be found here. If anyone has issues connecting, please contact us directly through our support site and we should be able to help you out. Closing this thread down for now, and will update if there's any new information to share. Thanks!