Sending gcode to Machinekit from remote source

[Michael Labuda]

Greetings fellow Machinekit users,

I am wondering if Machinekit has any method of remotely receiving gcode commands from another application, similar to MDI mode except code is not typed directly at the UI. I am not concerned about security or latency and the gcode instructions I intend to send over are very simple, just G00/G01 and an occasional M code. I have found some unresolved posts asking a similar question however they are all several years old. Has such a capability been added on since then? Could someone point me in the best direction in which to implement such an option? I am open to developing a solution myself is necessary. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael

[Chris Albertson]

My first thought is that way can't you open a named UNIX pipe and read g-code from it just as you read from a disk file.  Then the process that writes to the pipe can get the g-code any way it likes from any remote location.   See the man page for "mkfifo" if you've not used named pipes before.   It should work with no modifications to MK.

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[John Morris]

Check out the Machinetalk wrapper. It has this functionality built in for remote UIs.

John

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[Michael Labuda]

I have never used named pipes. I will look into that possibility. Thanks

[Len Shelton]

Did Machinekit drop emcrsh?