cncjs

This update fixes some critical issues in 1.8.5 and 1.8.6:

• Fixes an issue that failed to start Electron app due to a side effect of commit c9c78d9 (8a1a94be3f4015df93275c113808bce99567641d, resolves #102)
  • Affected releases: 1.8.5 and 1.8.6
• Resolves an issue in 1.8.6 that didn't handle the error event reported by Smoothie parser (d3705ddb729ef8706bcc85c768bc2c71ece0290f, closes #100)
• Controller and workflow enhancements (ee25784ea1aef7eb7d6e1d138a837d123e5c2dd0)
  • Disable Run button in Alarm state
  • Keep workflow in a running state if the controller state is not updated in time. This may happen when using a character-counting streaming protocol to stream a tiny G-code program to Grbl.

Adds preliminary support for Smoothieware (bbbce43c7c52bf80298cbe3c3be6af716943044d, resolves #94)

Release notes

• Refactors cncengine and monitor services (49c86e49d60727950587b5a23de7f2162e88f455)
• Prevents body scrolling when opening a modal window (0b4efde2452d6858663101d5e4956147a374157e)
• Adds support for uploading G-code from a watch directory (946fd3d5ca615f37548a5b38580afdc88634f005, resolves #75, #91)

Usage

 $ cnc --watch-directory /home/pi/watch

Instead of passing command line options for --watch-directory and --allow-remote-access, you can create a ~/.cncrc file that contains the following configuration in JSON format:

{
  "watchDirectory": "/path/to/dir",
  "allowRemoteAccess": false
}

Then you can browse the watch directory to select a G-code file to load:

Resolves an installation issue with react-sortablejs@"<1.2.0" and [email protected] (closes #98)

• Implements an experimental character-counting streaming protocol for Grbl controller (73e63943f890b868655cc69e6c516509f31f713c, 5f6f6f72f415b7a55c0879a2c157e7df5ff3bf3f)
  Ref. https://github.com/grbl/grbl/wiki/Interfacing-with-Grbl#streaming-protocol-character-counting-recommended-with-reservations

• Resolves a layout issue with Firefox browser on Settings page (52a0948b7e0ecd03774fa5e30a97e6621fbee9a7, closes https://github.com/cheton/cnc/issues/96)

• Grbl v1.1: Adds Queue Reports to display the available space of plane buffer and receive buffer (59563dd22fb85b7c80c24971123662095b49d8a3)

  Set $10=2 for Grbl v1.1d (or $10=15 for Grbl v0.9) to see planner buffer and receive buffer in queue reports.

  

• Adds a command-line option that allows remote access to the server (5fc8e1fe31e5bbf52770603c56292d86bf272171, #48)

  $ cnc --allow-remote-access
  

  Default whitelist:

  ## IPv4 reserved space
  127.0.0.0/8 # loopback addresses to the local host
  10.0.0.0/8 # Private network
  172.16.0.0/12 # Private network
  192.168.0.0/16 # Private network
  169.254.0.0/16 # Link-local address
  
  ## IPv4 mapped IPv6 address
  ::ffff:10.0.0.0/8
  ::ffff:127.0.0.0/8
  ::ffff:172.16.0.0/12
  ::ffff:192.168.0.0/16
  
  ## IPv6 reserved space
  ::1/128 # loopback address to the local host
  fc00::/7 # Unique local address
  fe80::/10 # Link-local address
  

• Fixes a bug of displaying wrong server address when the -H option is specified (05cc5149c57f4dc86f51cb581b7dc24e668ad3af)

• Updates uuid to version 3.0.0 (Merge PR #95)

New Language

• Japanese - Contributed by Naoki Okamoto

This release adds multi-account management support to enable secure web access and web socket connections. The web interface will automatically redirect user to the Sign In page when at least one user account has been enabled in Settings > Account.

Note. If you forgot your password, you can find user account settings in the ~/.cncrc file and disable account management by setting all users to the disabled state. For example:

"users": [
  {
    "id": "......",
    "enabled": false, // false to disable
    "name": "admin",
    "password": "......"
   }
 ],

Sign in page

Settings > Account

This update contains some improvements, including:

• Grbl 1.1: New override buttons to control feed, rapid, and spindle speed (resolves https://github.com/cheton/cnc/issues/89).
  Note. This feature is not available for Grbl 0.9 or earlier versions.

  

• Update "New update available" tooltip

• Various translation improvements
• Refines Dashboard and About page
• [Electron] Packaging both ia32 and x64 versions under Windows x64 platform

This release contains new features, bug fixes, and improvements, including:

Preview

What's New

• Grbl v1.1 support (resolves #89) - realtime feedrate and spindle speed overrides will be added later
• A new sidebar menu for future extensibility (i.e. #47, #48, #75)
• 3D view can be disabled for slow performance machines or browsers that don't have GPU hardware accerleration and WebGL support (resolves #37, #76, #86)

Other improvements and fixes

• Lessen visibility of completed paths (resolves #90)
• Informing when a updated version is available (resolves #75)
• Spindle widget enhancements (resolves #88)
  • Spindle speed change support
  • Coolant control (M7/M8/M9) support
• Grbl and TinyG2 controller enhancements

• Follows [email protected] API changes (https://github.com/cheton/cnc/commit/71b7d2342da92a31dab4be3a6894acf4eee2add9)
• Resolves an issue where validateAll is missing in [email protected] (see https://github.com/Lesha-spr/react-validation/issues/57)

This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Resolves a slow performance issue when dragging widgets (https://github.com/cheton/cnc/commit/c18c6b3103a9734804d25325eec0b90da854f67f)
• Fixes a bug where Grbl widget is not draggable (https://github.com/cheton/cnc/commit/877e89f0d6b9128f2b64f784a87ca01688b6bb1c)
• Performs dns lookup to resolve server address (https://github.com/cheton/cnc/commit/04efbe0e85e44c9cdab6e885877652958c78dba6)
• Updates package dependencies (https://github.com/cheton/cnc/commit/2d974c62ec8f2277d1bb9257680fa0044a398004)

This update contains bug fixes in previous versions, including v1.6.4 and v1.6.5:

• Set default webcam disabled state to true (ddc513aa6e54f1904c14fd28cba9f7ba806bddfe)
• Resolves an issue that widget control buttons cannot work after maximizing (585dca483327759582789271124658ec97f4d723)
• New API updates for [email protected]

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug where widget drag and drop cannot work due to code change side effects (e3d344ac61f7707ae0d31fad1a9ed8832fd618d5, fixes #79)

Enhancements

• Updates store only when necessary (ebbf1502cd102d0e1e6602e6d7a1f8b370d1dc5c)
• Refines Macro widget layout (51c94057aa85f32c78e93591b2fe7d041b1a39f1, resolves #80)
• Remembers widget minimized state (77b563a7cb23b99ecef7354e07d06872524f9e63, resolves #80)
  

Enhancements

• Change default font size from 12px to 13px (aaa9435ca6fd958100b80694ab6604e8fe2f2ea9)
• Move the toggle units button from the Axes widget to the central toolbar (5044f629897a40ebff88eb8757b386c9332a2bc1)
• Add support for toggling between imperial and metric coordinate systems
  in the 3D visualizer (bc2acb161573fc1d50c0f061d623e3c008db2365)
  
• Add support for accessing from a local media source using a built-in camera or a connected webcam (469d6eb221fb79c7c02964bc54c8d5058f69f1ae, resolves #57)
  
• Add support for the 4th axis (bcc068823e93f685fba7b2045ed9c4e43ebdef31, a29eda71bc38678bf49c80240a12af66cb8cc4bf)
  
• [Electron] Add support for zooming in/out and resetting zoom level in the desktop app (d6a157e59c2f7e784026c73a0946c831ca24eed6, resolves #77)
  

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue that drag and drop does not work after API changes (3e4ce5a42b1111b1d19712e8aff9d2b8c5c164fa, resolves #69)

New Language

• Italiano (Italian) - Contributed by vince87

Fix an issue that the Create Macro action will always fail if the "macros" entry is not available in the ~/.cncrc file (652c4e2a695c393476be6fc4fa2d87a721a4f488, resolves #61)

This release contains bug fixes and enhancements, including:

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue that the gcode:load event was not fired when uploading a G-code file (b86393fb6a136bbb2595e52dd664006497707cc3)
• Correct a misspelling in the G-code widget (97dcac74cf3cc9f809a10ad0fac8d624e23fc888)

Enhancements

• [Webcam Widget] Add support for optical work zero adjustment
  (fd05e27049a2d688f9d519ca20ad0a24b547d9e8, #57)
  
• Add macro support for storing G-code to simplify CNC workflow (#61)
  
• Grbl and TinyG2 controller enhancements
• Improve translations