Webcontrol just can't connect

Maslow Community
1

I swear this used to work, but something happened and I’ve been down the rabbit hole of upgrades and configurations but nothing seems to be working.

When I run webcontrol it gives the output in the screenshot and I cannot get to it by hitting my-pi-ip.local:5000

Any more thoughts I can try?

I had connection issues so I’m now using the pi in a headless state, by ssh through my Mac.

I’m running webcontrol manually by cd webcontrol

./webcontrol

Raspberry pi: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 2 GB RAM (from Adafruit)

Imaged with: Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit)

SD card: SanDisk 64GB Ultra MicroSDXC Class 10 / U1 / A1 Flash Memory Card (from Microcenter)

Power supply: Official Raspberry Pi Power Supply 5.1V 3A with USB C (from Adafruit)

WebControl version: Latest as of 1/4/24 - webcontrol-0.94-rpi-singledirectory.tar.gz

Firmware: GitHub - WebControlCNC/Firmware at holey-firmware · GitHub

Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 6.23.35 PM
Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 6.23.35 PM1920×1295 189 KB

2

If anyone is following this, I followed the notes from this post - Cant update to Holey Firmware, and cant get the software to run outside of Docker by @girrrrrrr2 and it seems to be running okay.

I think the version of Webcontrol I was using must have had an issue - updating to webcontrol-0.95-pre-release-beta-rpi-singlefolder.tar.gz seems to have fixed it.

The only issue now is that it gave me an error on the version of firmware I was running -
Warning, you are running a stock firmware that is newer than what is included in WebControl. This version may not work correctly with this version of WebControl.

WebControl:1.26, Controller:1.28

I assume this means I should be running holey with this version of webcontrol?

3

Bryn Sharpe wrote:

If anyone is following this, I followed the notes from this post - Cant update to Holey Firmware, and cant get the software to run outside of Docker by @girrrrrrr2 and it seems to be running okay.

I think the version of Webcontrol I was using must have had an issue - updating to webcontrol-0.95-pre-release-beta-rpi-singlefolder.tar.gz seems to have fixed it.

The only issue now is that it gave me an error on the version of firmware I was running -
Warning, you are running a stock firmware that is newer than what is included in WebControl. This version may not work correctly with this version of WebControl.

WebControl:1.26, Controller:1.28

I assume this means I should be running holey with this version of webcontrol?

webcontrol includes firmware with it, both holey and normal IIRC. I think we had
pretty much found that holey was more accurate (the other calibration corrected
for errors in once place, but didn’t try to address them in other places)

David Lang

1 Like