SHow up on local network?

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I’ve reached the point where I think I need a little help.

Network connection?
SO far - I have assembled my Maslow4 per the instructions. It is sitting flat on a table, with the 4 belts extended at various lengths (where they just ended up during arm assembly).

When I first plugged it in (Only the electronics, not the DeWalt router), I immediately saw the Maslow network appear on a laptop (sitting two feet away).

Opening the FLUIDCNC tab, I easily found the areas to type in (and pressed SET) for my router and password. It did NOT appear on my network. My router is perhaps, at most, 30 feet away from the worktable where assembly took place and my laptop has no trouble connecting from there.
I would like to know if I’m just missing a step somewhere.

I followed the steps (I think) to download the files from GitHub. Am I right in thinking, of the ‘6 assets’ listed, I only need download
firmware.bin,
index.html.gz,and
maslow.yaml .

Do these need to be in a specific folder on my laptop for Fluidnc to find them? Right now I have them in ‘Documents\Maslow downloads’. I vaguely recall something about putting them on the desktop.
Is that a required path?
Could my use of blanks in the path be a problem?
The Fluidnc file finder is not seeing much. The laptop will be devoted only to the MASLOW4.

Since I am having the issue finding the MASLOW device on local Wifi, should I just load the files on a USB and ‘sneakernet’ (that should tell you how old I am!) them to the laptop. I know I can bounce from my home wifi (internet) to Maslow network, using the one PC to do both, but I’d like to get the Maslow4 doing something first.

When should I expect any ‘movement’ from the CNC part of the machine? I guess I’m asking when can I throw my hands up and cry “It’s alive! It’s alive!”, or expect it to wriggle at least?

The videos updates are great, you do a fine job of that, and your response time is excellent. Thank you!

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I’ve reached the point where I think I need a little help.

Network connection?
SO far - I have assembled my Maslow4 per the instructions. It is sitting flat on a table, with the 4 belts extended at various lengths (where they just ended up during arm assembly).

When I first plugged it in (Only the electronics, not the DeWalt router), I immediately saw the Maslow network appear on a laptop (sitting two feet away).

Opening the FLUIDCNC tab, I easily found the areas to type in (and pressed
SET) for my router and password. It did NOT appear on my network. My router is
perhaps, at most, 30 feet away from the worktable where assembly took place
and my laptop has no trouble connecting from there.
I would like to know if I’m just missing a step somewhere.

as a safety factor, if it can’t find the network you told it to connect to, it
creates the maslow network, so if you aren’t seeing that, it thinks it’s
connected.

you may be able to find it by looking at your router admin page to see what’s
connected to it (and if you do, I would suggest setting it’s IP static),
otherwise there is the find my maslow utility that tries to find it if the
maslow.local name doesn’t get registered with your router.

In addition, the blinking blue light is flashing out your IP address digit by
digit.

As a last resort, take it somewhere that your network cannot reach, so it
creates the maslow network, then remove the ssid entry that you put in to tell
it what network to connect to and just go directly to the maslow.

I followed the steps (I think) to download the files from GitHub. Am I right in thinking, of the ‘6 assets’ listed, I only need download
firmware.bin,
index.html.gz,and
maslow.yaml .

Do these need to be in a specific folder on my laptop for Fluidnc to find them? Right now I have them in ‘Documents\Maslow downloads’. I vaguely recall something about putting them on the desktop.
Is that a required path?
Could my use of blanks in the path be a problem?

all of that is happening on your laptop, so there are no requirements (as long
as your browser can find them)

The Fluidnc file finder is not seeing much. The laptop will be devoted only to the MASLOW4.

Since I am having the issue finding the MASLOW device on local Wifi, should I
just load the files on a USB and ‘sneakernet’ (that should tell you how old I
am!) them to the laptop. I know I can bounce from my home wifi (internet) to
Maslow network, using the one PC to do both, but I’d like to get the Maslow4
doing something first.

When should I expect any ‘movement’ from the CNC part of the machine? I guess I’m asking when can I throw my hands up and cry “It’s alive! It’s alive!”, or expect it to wriggle at least?

after you connect it, hit the alarm button to take it out of alarm mode to idle,
then you will want to do a retract-all and all belts should move. That’s when
you throw your hands up (getting past calibration is the next big hurdle, and
after that it’s useful)

David Lang

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As far as the firmware files, I’m not sure Dlang answered your question entirely. Although true you can have the files ‘saved’ anywhere. You need to upload them to the machine via a certain way.

Follow the directions here:

Firmware upload is a systematic process.

But the other 2 files are just basically saving them to a storage directory on the local memory of the machine.

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the file names that you save them as on the maslow matters (a lot), but what
they are named on your system that you are uploading them from, and the paths to
them don’t matter.

David Lang

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It may just be easier to turn off your router for a moment if no one needs the network.

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