# WebControl On Chromebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 25, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040 "2020-04-25T03:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/1 "2020-04-25T03:23:51Z")
I’ve recent decided I want to keep my chromebook in my garage, and figured I’d try again to get ground control going. I was able to get ground control going, but everything moves at a crawl compared to running on my windows computer. This led to me wanting to try WebControl. I am not able to connect to localhost:5001 or 5000…has anyone successfully gotten WebControl running on a chromebook? This laptop is going to become target in the backyard soon if I can’t find a good use for this laptop. ---
**Author:** ![dlang](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/dlang/32/859_2.png) [@dlang](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/dlang)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/2 "2020-04-25T04:11:03Z")
the easy (i.e. best supported) thing to do would be to get a Pi to run WebControl on and use the browser on the Chromebook to access it. If you do want to run WebControl on the Chromebook we would first need to find which processor you have there (if you can get a terminal open, cat /proc/cpuinfo and report what it returns, at least for the last core) then we can tell you hich version to download and try to run If you did download it, try running it from a terminal window and tell us if it reports any errors. David Lang ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/3 "2020-04-25T04:18:27Z")
Dlang, Thank you for the reply. I had been trying the single directory, but just tried the single file. From there I was able to make the file executable and get it to work. I’ll update tomorrow once I hook it up to the unit and see if I can operate everything. ---
**Author:** ![madgrizzle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/madgrizzle/32/1372_2.png) [@madgrizzle](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/madgrizzle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/4 "2020-04-25T11:24:55Z")
What model Chromebook is this and which file specific file did you download? Rpi/Linux/win? ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/5 "2020-04-25T17:50:52Z")
It’s an Acer CB3-532-C8DF, and I’m using the Linux single file. I’m about to go downstairs now and see how the speed looks ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/6 "2020-04-25T18:44:24Z")
The final answer is that it’ll work, but it extremely slow. I was desperately trying to give this Chromebook a purpose, but it seems it doesn’t have the power to do much. ![IMG_20200425_133645](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/maslowcnc/original/3X/6/2/621e64cd2912bfefa446257998a8d2b37525068f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![madgrizzle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/madgrizzle/32/1372_2.png) [@madgrizzle](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/madgrizzle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/7 "2020-04-25T19:36:17Z")
> [@Drake\_Lewis](#): > > CB3-532-C8DF That’s honestly surprising. Is it just ‘laggy’? I thought it would be fast enough to handle it. Is there any other process going on in the background that could be consuming CPU cycles? I’ve never used a chromebook before so don’t know what you can do to tell. ---
**Author:** ![bar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/bar/32/10_2.png) [@bar](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/bar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/8 "2020-04-26T03:17:17Z")
Is it slow as in the machine responds slowly, or slow as in the UI is lagging? ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/9 "2020-04-28T04:01:40Z")
It is slow as in the machine responds slowly…it seems almost as if the command from the computer to Arduino is slow. It’s quite strange because when manually controlling the sled everything is completely normal, but a few hundred lines into a project it’s like it finally overloads itself and starts taking a few seconds per line of g-code. ---
**Author:** ![madgrizzle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/madgrizzle/32/1372_2.png) [@madgrizzle](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/madgrizzle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/10 "2020-04-28T11:42:46Z")
Interesting… I don’t know what would cause that to happen that’s related specifically to webcontrol and not the OS. Do you have buffer gcode enabled? If so, try disabling it. If not, try enabling it. ---
**Author:** ![Jared3227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jared3227](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Jared3227)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/11 "2020-08-27T19:38:15Z")
how did you get the single file to execute? I got the linux terminal up on my chromebook, downloaded the linux single file. but not sure how to execute it. ---
**Author:** ![Jared3227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jared3227](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Jared3227)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/12 "2020-08-27T20:06:21Z")
well i mashed enough incorrect commands into terminal that I finally found the right one to start web control. Its up but when I try to select a port to communicate with the arduino it doesn’t show any ports after refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![Jared3227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jared3227](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Jared3227)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/13 "2020-08-28T13:28:13Z")
Looks like I just needed to let the OS update, It had been turned off for nearly a year. Its a lenovo yoga 11e and is running webcontrol well. No issues so far, so running off of a chromebook is an option, but may just depend on what chromebook it is. - Update Chrome - Enable linux in the settings - Enable usb access in the linux advanced settings - Open the linux terminal and use the command lines that are listed on the git page for installing to linux. - Change the path to the latest **singlefile** release - use `./main` to start up the webcontrol service. - If the browser doesn’t load webcontrol when it opens try localhost:5000 as the url ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Lewis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/drake_lewis/32/13562_2.png) [@Drake\_Lewis](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/Drake_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/webcontrol-on-chromebook/13040/14 "2020-11-02T15:10:01Z")
Jared, I haven’t logged on in awhile… So I apologize for the late reply. I ended up using an RPI4 and controlling it from my chrome book