I was trying not to go into details because of exactly what's going on here. I also started by saying the issue was finding a way to share a USB device/port over my network. Now it's more than one thing?Īctually I was focused on one device, since that's the first thing I'll be dealing with. You actually started by saying it was one thing. Which is why I asked about sharing the USB ports over my LAN - that would solve multiple problems at once. There are reasons, although it was a year ago, that I decided on the software I want to use for the CNC. Is there any chance of focusing on the original question? Please? I've mentioned it's several devices. So I was hoping it might be similar with a USB port. I asked about the USB port because I know I've done something similar with CD/DVD players, where you can share one on a computer with another as if it's in the other computer. As I mentioned in another reply, some of those decisions are from a year ago and I'm reviewing it all now. I can't, right now, remember if it was my decision to drive it via USB or if that was the only way to drive it. At this point, I am still going over that. I'm working this from several directions and that includes looking back at the basics to see if I can drive the CNC in some other way. I tried running Cura on my system in my study so I could look it over and I can't even finish the setup without it being able to detect a printer. But along with that, which I haven't gone into, is the 3D printer next to it. Right now I'm looking for alternatives for driving the CNC. If you are using bCNC for example, it will allow you to choose a remote serial port from a drop down list, as well as local ports (native and USB). I expect it is looking for serial ports, some of which may be native, on the motherboard, and others which are transient, provided by USB devices and their drivers. So what software are you using to drive the CNC? Is that possible without spending days or lots of dollars setting it up? In other words, I can sit at my workstation, which could be Linux or an iMac, and tell my software on the workstation that the CNC is on what looks like a USB port on my workstation - when the reality is it's a shared USB port on the Pi across the room. Since that's possible, I know I have one way to control the CNC through a Pi from the other side of the room.īut what I'd like to do is share the USB port on my Pi so my workstation, running Linux or windows, treats that USB port as local to the workstation. I know I can use VNC and log into the Pi from across the room and run software on the Pi. I'm thinking it might be easy to setup a Pi near the CNC, connect it through ethernet to my workstation, then control it through there. (Plus there's the logistics of running it across a room and not tripping over it.) I had planned on using a USB-over-ethernet connection, but it's not working properly. The CNC machine is controlled through a USB connection, but it's too far from my workstation to run a USB cable. On the other side, behind shower curtains (to block out sawdust), I have my computer. I have a CNC system on one side of my workshop. When I've searched for what I want, I've found a lot of similar topics, but not much on my specific need.
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