Socket.IO with CNCjs

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I am running a raspberry pi4 with node-red and CNCjs together as part of a CNC motion control system. CNCjs is connected to a serial port where a raspberry pi pico (rp2040) is running grblHAL firmware. I am running into some roadblocks trying to use node-red as a pendant to control the machine through the CNCjs server.

CNCjs connects to the serial port and allows access to the port through a server. It requires a socket.IO connection to both send and receive allowed commands between the grblHAL and any networked device working as a pendant that uses the protocol. There are some pendant examples at CNCjs main github page.

At this point, I am still trying to figure out how much I don't know so I can start researching the correct bits needed for the communication. For example: which socketio nodes, if any, are compatible and will handle the "token" handshaking. If and where I can use some of the js code examples from CNCjs within node-red, or if they are not compatible with nodejs. Or if there is already a working example of all of this somewhere that I overlooked.

Thanks for any help anyone can spare.

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I think I am moving on from this for now. Instead of using CNCjs and limiting myself to communication over socket.IO, I am trying to bring full sender capability into the NR environment. Maybe I will try to drag some of the CNCjs code bits into NR since they are in node.js. Anyone else interested in the same?

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