And since Edward Ford did not connect anything to that line, his setup has no way to tell. I suppose it could send some signal out the TX line. So a new question arises, if USB has its own flow control, how does grbl tell it that the buffer is full?
When USB is used (or not), it is apparently transparent to grbl. It seems that Edward Ford is using RX to receive data from the SD shield. With your help and more googling, I'm seeing a different picture.Īpparently, the Arduino talks to USB with the RX/TX pins, so it can't tell if the bits come (or go) from USB or other source. Okay, I'm beginning to fill in the blanks. My biggest confusion is why isn't this a problem during USB communication with my laptop?Īlso, is anyone familiar enough with grbl to assist me with where that line of code is inserted? The sending Arduino then monitors the appropriate pin of the grbl Arduino. If(serialAvailable()>= 128) //turn on LED13
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"Each time grbl processes a command it checks the serial buffer: His solution was to implemented a poor man's version of hardware flow control. I have found posts from Edward Ford where he had flow control issues with overflowing the serial buffer. One of them has grbl installed, and the other uses an SD card shield (for gcode storage) and sends the gcode to grbl via USB (just as a PC would do). I have found several posts from people that have implemented this using 2 Arduinos. I have a desire for a standalone or "headless" configuration of grbl. Part of the problem may be that I don't know enough to understand if I do actually have an answer. I'm having a difficult time finding the answer to some questions I have regarding Arduino, grbl, and USB communication.
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