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Wanted to see if anyone else is having trouble with Easel seeing the X-Carve this morning?
Last time I did carve it fired up great no issues. Today i booted the computer there as a windows 10 update (did them) restarted and Easel will not see the X-Controller now. In Device Manager I see Com 3 when I turn on the controller, and if I go into Devices & Printers I see the X-Controller and it says “working correctly”, but when I go to Configure Machine it will not see it. In troubleshooting, I set the COM to 3 and it just spins forever.
Im having connection issues. I can start carves then it will stop mid carve and ask me how everything turned out. Some projects I have to do 2-4 times then I have to start over. I have to turn the controller off rehome and start all over . This started last night.
Thanks @PhilJohnson, I’ll give it another show tithe it set to 115,200 but did try that yesterday which did not seem to have an impact. Let me try it again this morning.
I did exactly what you said and created a .txt file, pasted the 3 lines in it, then renamed it a .bat file on my desktop. I execute the file as instructed after closing Chrome etc. it opens a CMD window and closes Easel then restarts it. I then hit any key to proceed and Unplug the USB (I hear the PC acknowledge that a USB has been removed) plug it back in (again PC chimes confirming) then re-launch Chrome… and run Easel. Still getting the “Opening COM3… Access Denied” --> Port Open over and over.
Any other tricks that come to your knowledgeable gray matter?
LOL… Not sure but at this point I’m willing to try anything! I’ve got 4 cutting board blanks for Christmas Gifts and at this point it looks like I’m heading to the store tonight to buy gifts instead.
Well John at Inventables gave me a call and he figured it out. Apparently, and neither he nor I have ANY idea how this could have happened… but apparently my X-Controller lost its Firmware completely.
He went to the Andrino website and downloaded/reflashed my Firmware and Bingo… it was back online. Again he said he had never seen that before so it was an odd fluke… good news is I’m back to carving (well not tonight but tomorrow… back at it.)
