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Giga Chad Coding
Giga Chad Coding

Reputation: 198

Is there anyway to auto-run a file in Universal Gcode Sender on the program's startup instead of having to upload a file?

I have a file "myFile.gcode" which contains some G-code commands. As it stands Universal Gcode Sender allows the user to upload a file to be executed. However I would like "myFile.gcode" to be run as soon as the program starts up instead of me having to upload it.

Is this possible with the out-of-the-box .jar file?

.jar available at https://winder.github.io/ugs_website/

If not I have the following idea,

In summary, is this possible?

And, what could make tracing this code easier?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1944

Answers (1)

Joacim Breiler
Joacim Breiler

Reputation: 26

Yes there is a new feature for running CLI-commands, download the latest nightly build of Universal G-code Sender Classic and run the follwing:

# java -cp UniversalGcodeSender.jar com.willwinder.ugs.cli.TerminalClient --help

This will print the available parameters and options:

 -b,--baud <baudrate>           Baud rate to connect with.
 -c,--controller <controller>   What type of controller firmware we are
                                connecting to, defaults to "GRBL". These
                                are the available firmwares: [GRBL, TinyG,
                                Testing (Delay), Smoothie Board, Testing]
 -d,--daemon                    Starts in daemon mode providing a web
                                pendant UI
 -dr,--driver <driver>          Sets and saves the connection driver
                                setting. These are the available drivers:
                                [JSERIALCOMM, JSSC, TCP]
 -f,--file <filename>           Opens a file for streaming to controller
                                and will exit upon completion.
 -h,--help                      Prints the help information.
 -ho,--home                     If a homing process should be done before
                                any gcode files are sent to the
                                controller.
 -l,--list                      Lists all available ports.
 -p,--port <port>               Which port for the controller to connect
                                to. I.e /dev/ttyUSB0 (on Unix-like systems
                                or COM4 (on windows).
 -pp,--print-progressbar        Prints the progress of the file stream
 -ps,--print-stream             Prints the streamed lines to console
 -r,--reset-alarm               Resets any alarm
 -v,--version                   Prints the software version.
 -w,--workspace <dir>           Sets and saves the workspace directory
                                setting

Sending a file can be done using the following command:

# java -cp UniversalGcodeSender.jar com.willwinder.ugs.cli.TerminalClient --controller GRBL --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 --print-progressbar --file test.gcode

Connected to "Grbl 0.9z" on  baud 115200
Running file "test.gcode"
test.gcode  52% │██████████████████████▉                    │  55/105 (0:00:06 / 0:00:05)

Upvotes: 1

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