Usage Notes and Requested Enhancements

Usage Notes

• Enter a ! to feedhold a file. From there you can cancel the job with a ^c^c

• feel free to npm down the latest and try it

  • just pushed and published
  • simple usage:
  • g FILENAME -g LOGFILE
  • typing ! or ~ is immediate
  • CTRL-C sends ! if not in feedhold, and exits if in feedhold
  • CTRL-D is passed to the board and otherwise not handled specially
  • install command again:
  • sudo npm install -g tinyg --build-from-source
  • from anywhere

Usage Questions

• How do you interpret the time? What are the units? Ms?

Requested Enhancements

• Add a function to run a file from the command line without restarting
• Return control to the command line when a file is finished
• Output port, direction and time in a more human readable format, like:
  • [C>> yymmdd.hh.mm.ss.msec]
  • [D>> yymmdd.hh.mm.ss.msec]
  • [<<< yymmdd.hh.mm.ss.msec]
• Support text mode commands down and display responses (as normal)
  • Or at least common text mode queries like ? (status report) $ (system object)...
• Implement a "session" dump that lists all current session parameters, e.g.
  • Control port state, connection time...
  • Data port state, connection time...
  • TinyG recognized - type, build number, ID...
• Help command. Something like -h to list options
• Remove the checksum NaN from the response message. Checksums have been deprecated
• Function for delay in ms between lines
• Function for delay in ms between characters