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OpenBuilds control software randomly pausing jobs

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  1. lucascorato

    lucascorato New
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    Hi everybody!
    It´s been a long journey but my upscaled version of the ox-cnc is running (almost) smoothly.
    While sending jobs through Control, though, I have been going through a quite painful issue: the job stops randomly. Sometimes I can click on the pause button and then resume and it indeed resumes, but some other times it gets stuck and I have to restart from zero.
    I could't find a pattern for the error yet. With the same gcode it can pause in different positions, or it also happens that it runs smootlhy from beginning to end.
    It also happens that i get an error message that says that Control either quit or crashed.
    I'm using windows 10 running on a i7-620m processor, with Radeon mobility 5650 1gb switchable graphics.
    CNC controller is grbl Spark Concepts xPro V3.
    OpenBuilds Control software is the latest version. I tried to disable 3d viewing options to no good results.
    Thanks a lot!
     
    #1 lucascorato, May 7, 2021
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    Peter Van Der Walt OpenBuilds Team
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    #2 Peter Van Der Walt, May 7, 2021
  3. lucascorato

    lucascorato New
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    Thanks Peter for your quick reply.
    USB power saving is disabled. Been there, done that!
    I'm using a fairly long (5m) ordinary USB cable, so you must be right. I'll try to get a better one, shielded if I find it.
     
    #3 lucascorato, May 7, 2021
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    Oh yeah definately that! Stick to around 1-1.2m max
     
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    Ugh, 1.2m only? I leave the computer on the other room, away from the dust, and the cable is all laid out on the walls and ceiling. Would those active (or amplified, booster, whatever - I don't know the right specification for them) 10m USB cable do any good? Or should I go for the bluetooth module?
     
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    Nothing beats a short as possible USB cable.

    If you don't want the PC in the dust, get an Interface:

    docs:interface:start [OpenBuilds Documentation]
    Can be used with the xPro's (header is available on v3 and v4): INTERFACE CNC Touch Controller

    Demo video:

     
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    Wow! Now I want it!
    But too expensive in my currency, unfortunately.
    Would it be possible and, if yes, is there any documentation on running the xpro on a raspberry pi with octoprint or something like that?
     
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    OpenBuilds/OpenBuilds-CONTROL

    But NB note:

    Octoprint has a couple Grbl plugins too: Better Grbl Support
     
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    Cool, thanks once more Peter!
     
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    I tried the RPi route and I went back to a Windows platform. It was just too much of a hassle to get it to work. I used it on a RPi 3B+. Someone here said that he has it running on a RPi4 using something that emulates Windows, or something like this.
     
    #10 JustinTime, May 8, 2021
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    Win10 IoT but its a massive pain in the...

    Pi4, Raspbian, CONTROL works well. Pi3 is too slow, thus why the wiki states Pi4.
    But just we don't offer tech support because of the Linux dependency stack (unforseen problems) - though we do keep the installers up to date, and fix bugs as they come along - as it can lead to some very lengthy discussions with users who have no linux experience.
     
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