I could not find a gSender category - mods please move this post if there is a specific gSender category
I run an Altmill, gSender 1.4.10 under Ubuntu 24.10 and I generate my gcode with the GRBL 6 post processor in Fusion360 (there is no GRBL Hal)
I am about as new to this as it gets and just trying out my first test job file. This is to say that with about 99% certainty, this is an operator problem.
So here is the scenario:
I open up gSender, connect to the machine, click on ‘Load File’ and my file gets loaded and displayed. I then run this file and it completes perfectly other than the carriage moves to the homing position which I did not specifically ask for but that is likely a setting in the post processor.
All is fine and dandy, the window telling me that the job completed is up. I close the notification window … I try to load the next file but gSender appears to have crashed.
The cursor is still working but I can not load a new file, can’t run the same file again, can’t move any of the axis manually. Basically clicking on something doesn’t seem to do anything.
All I can do now is close gSender, re-open it and load my next job file.
What am I doing wrong? I don’t think anything the post processor puts out should crash gSender so I think that I am using GRBL 6 shouldn’t really matter but who knows?
Thoughts?
@Jens I’m not sure why you could not see the gSender categories, but no worries. I’ve moved your topic to the gSender question category, although your issue may be with the post you chose for Fusion 360. As I have never used Fusion, I am not competent to comment on that. I did search on grbl 6 fusion 360, but nothing returned.
It may help others if you would post the gcode for the problem file.
I found a note about the GRBL post processor in Fusion and I set safe retracts to clearance hight, confirmed that M6 was not sent and disabled tool numbers being sent.
I don’t see how any of this should cause my symptoms but I will re-run the updated file and see if anything has changed.
@Jens I did not say that I believe that the gcode was the issue. I did say that I was not competent to determine that. All I suggested was that others may see something in the gcode that could possibly be a source of the problem.
Thanks gwilki! I keep thinking that I am missing something very basic as I operate gSender.
I was secretly hoping that someone would say ‘yes, I ran into this as well, you just need to click on this button’ … something very basic …
I have determined that the issue is related to the operating system (Ubuntu 24.10)
I set up a Windows computer and there is no issue with that box (and the same file)
Update:/Solved:
When I ran gSender on Ubuntu I did so in a full screen mode. As it turns out, when I wish to load my first file, gSender pops up a file screen over top of gSender. When I attempt to load the next job, the file open dialog opens up BELOW the gSender window which I never see and the program is waiting for me to choose a file. If I shrink gSender, I see the dialog and can choose a file and gSender works as it should.
I have run into this sort of issue before in Windows but do not recall this ever happening under Ubuntu …
