Is there any talk about a windows version of BendControl with either a USB or WiFi download to the Titan which would allow designing programs at the desk while in front of my CAD program instead of printing out the design and programming in front of the Titan?
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This would be extremely useful! I really hope that they consider this. At minimum, I would like to see a desktop accessible version of the tooling/material page to estimate tonnage, bend radius, etc. A page on their website would be fine for that.
I’m wondering if the solution might be to get an Orange Pi and use remote desktop to connect to an instance of Bendcontrol on the Orange Pi?
Might be more sketchy, but I wonder if the same could be done to the Orange Pi inside the control cabinet and skip the extra hardware?
We do not have any plans for that at the moment. If you want to do something like that now, you could just get an extra long HDMI and just run it straight from the CPU inside the unit to a monitor, where you mess with it using a wireless mouse plugged into the front of the Titan.
How about remote desktop access to the Orange Pi through Windows, would that be an option?
OK. I’m trying to answer my own question here, but from what I’m seeing I’d need to connect to the Orange Pi via ssh and install VNCServer, setup a VNC server and then use VNC Viewer on Windows to connect to the VNC server after inputing the connection information.
Sounds very much like what I just went through setting up Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi4 and connecting it to my old 3D printer and computer. So the only question is whether the Orange Pi can have VNCServer installed and running without creating problems for Bendcontrol.
Alrighty then. After calling in the help of my 73 year father who loves playing with software and programming stuff, we googled and tinkered all afternoon and I finally have a set of all the files off of the disk image from the microSD card in the Titan that I can play around with without risking the microSD card.
First impression is that SSH should already be enabled in Armbian, or so says the ssh_config file in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config filepath, so I’m not sure yet why I can’t connect to the board when trying to connect to it in Putty via the IP address using port 22. It is possible that the fact that I can’t find an ssh folder in the root directory is the issue. As I understand it there should be a config file in that folder that is the user’s config file, but I’m not sure if that only gets created if there is a user besides the default user login and password for Armbian.
I’m swimming in deep seas I’ve never spent much time in when it comes to programming and Linux, but I’m already finding some fun things I can tinker with, like changing out the loading splash screen image with one of my choosing if I wanted to.
I’ll keep you guys posted on what I find as I continue to tinker with enabling remote access.
That’s awesome! Keep up the great work