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If you have a Macintosh computer, check for the Repetier-Host Mac on this site. The Host works on Windows XP and later and on Linux. If you have an old computer running Windows XP you may have difficulties. Currently available computers should have no problems at all. I have just a little time to mess with it myself, and the images take so long to build that it is really tough to get me to work on it.Before you start with the installation, you should check if your computer meets the requirements. I’m happy to see someone with your skillset being interested though. The one advantage over octopi if you’re using octoprint is that my image comes with a version that supports a hot spot, if your barn/garage doesn’t get good enough reception with your house wifi. But also because it is based on octopi, which has a lot of the issues worked out, and comes with octoprint installed. The v1pi image has both installed, mostly because I am trying not to pick up a huge project, so it is a light touch. The gcode preview and timelapses are pretty useless for CNC, but if you just want a web control and a pi gcode sender, they both work about the same. Octoprint has the advantage of a bazillion users and they do a great job of finding bugs in the release candidates. If your firmware supports workspace coordinates, for example, you have the buttons for that there, and the gcode preview is miles better.
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Here’s a good page with details on how to do it on Mac and Windows and Linux:Ĭncjs is a little more directed at cnc features. I was able to run apps on our SGI Irix on my windows desktop better than if they were running natively on Irix local because the video card in our Irix was such utter rubbish.
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There’s an expensive commercial x server for windows that works great - I had a license for it from a company I worked for back in the 90’s. But I haven’t messed with it there in a few years so not sure just what’s available.
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There are other options for windows based computers…though to be honest I’ve not been as impressed with the free X servers I’ve tried on windows. so I have the “Xquartz” server running that lets me display X apps on remote computers on my desktop.
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In fact to run inkscape on a mac you have to install a x-server because that’s how the developers ported inkscape to mac. But Mac is unix under the hood so it’s not hard to add one. I’m on a mac so I don’t have a native x-server running on my desktop. Since I wasn’t able to get even xeyes (a really simple x demo program) running without -Y I’m assuming it’s in my ssh config. There’s also a -Y flag which is like X only with weaker security - I found I had to use Y to do this on my setup though I’m not sure if it’s due to how ssh is configured on my Pine64 or if it’s due to the USB access and the permissions bCNC needed. He uses ssh to connect to his Pi and adds the -X flag which tell ssh to open the ports required for X and to setup the environment variables required to tell x clients (the apps) to connect to his desktop not an X server running on the Pi itself. In David’s example he’s using Linux on his desktop so it’s super easy. So since the Pi runs unix you can run an xwindows app (like bcnc or in David’s case Pronterface) which is running on the Pi so it has direct access to the USB ports for machine control - but you send the GUI over the network to an X server on your desktop computer.

you window manager) on the same computer - but because it’s a networked system you can run them on separate machines. It’s a feature of X the GUI used on Unix systems.īasically X is a client/server architecture - usually you run both the client (your apps) and the server (i.e.
