Weird Error now happening

[evanbutson]

Hi So I am running a Lunyee 3018 Pro, have been using it happily with UGS for a little while, then I installed Gsender 1.4.12 . And it was great. Didn’t use it for a while, in the meantime I clicked when it asked to update to the latest version 1.5.2, I also installed Lightburn and laserGRBL (not sure if this is relevant)

Now, when I start it I always get error:2 (Bad number format)

Now when I run any jobs (that did work before and also still work on UGS), it usually runs for a little while a few lines of code, and then it errors and goes into Hold (with the spindle still running) and usually shows error code ID:24

this happens even with the sample gcode supplied with the router ie not my jobs out of fusion.

As I said, same code works great under UGS. I have since tried uninstalling Lightburn and LAser GRBL, as well as rolling back Gsender to 1.4.12 all to no avail?

Its really frustrating becaiuse I love GSender, it is so much slicker than UGS. And from the looks of it I can run the laser in it too.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Spamming_Eddie]

Hi Evan,

Welcome to the forum. I have entered a search for I believe to have read something simular happening to someon and came up with this here topic that has a solution to it. It may halp you?

Sending errors with gSender but not with UGS

I have a Genmitsu 4040 Pro Max. If I use UGS, I can run large files with no problem. However, with gSender, I get an error after a few tens or hundreds of lines, and it stops. e.g. X3.288 Y2.847 ok X3.094 Y3.711 ok X2.957 Y4.587 error:25 (Invalid gcode ID:25) error:25 (Invalid gcode ID:25) ok ok ok ok ok ok error:25 (Invalid gcode ID:25) I sometimes get: error:2 (Bad number format), even when establishing the connection. I have replaced the USB cable with a good quality new one. I have put fe…

[evanbutson]

You’re a genius. Worked instantly.

Weird that when I first installed the software it worked even though I didn’t make that change.

Either way, I was able to run a short file and no errors. Will try it on a bigger file soon, just to be sure

Thanks so much for the help.

[Spamming_Eddie]

Well, to be honoust, I have never upgraded beyond Gsender1.2.2 because it does what is has to do for my longmill with laser, so I can only speculate.

It seems that upgrading/downgrading does not completely erase a settings file. I speculate that since the newer edition of gsender (1.5.x and up) are more grblhall orientated, the setting for that bleeped your machine was switched. Downgrading to 1.4.12 did not delete that setting.

To up/downgrade fully one has to delete or rename this file to start fresh.
Found here:

How do I revert versions in gSender?

Hey folks, If you’ve checked out our newest version of gSender, but want to go back to a previous version, here are some helpful steps. You can install a new version without uninstalling the old one. But…there is a file that gSender saves your events into, that we will need to rename. You can delete it, but you may want to simply rename it, allowing you to recover your events (Start/Stop events and your macros are all saved to this file) in the future if you wish. Let’s locate the file! It’s…

[evanbutson]

Totally agree, in fact I can’t remember actually choosing to upgrade, my guess is the upgrade reminder was right next to the load job button, might have pressed it by mistake and not noticed.

The new interface is quite nice though, glad I have it working. Of course, I can’t leave well enough alone, it looks like I can run my laser from gender instead of having to have lasergrbl, just need to figure out how, and hopefully not mess up the CNC settings in the process

[Spamming_Eddie]

Check out this section in the gsender manual for setting up laser.

Additional Features - gSender Docs