#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Simple script to stream a G-code file to a GRBL controller. """ import os import time import serial def stream(filename): """Opens the given filename and streams it to GRBL.""" usbs = [dev for dev in os.listdir("/dev/") if dev.startswith("ttyUSB")] for usb in usbs: try: s = serial.Serial(os.path.join("/dev/", usb), 115200) break except serial.serialutil.SerialException: continue else: print("Could not find any USB connections. Exiting.") return with open(filename, 'r') as file: data = file.read().splitlines() len_cmds = len(data) progress = [] # Wake up grbl s.write(b"\r\n\r\n") time.sleep(2) # Wait for grbl to initialize s.flushInput() # Flush startup text in serial input for n, line in enumerate(data): l = line.strip().encode("utf-8") # Strip all EOL characters for consistency # print('Sending: ' + str(l)) s.write(l + b"\n") # Send g-code block to grbl grbl_out = s.readline() # Wait for grbl response with carriage return # print('Receive: ' + str(grbl_out).strip()) percent = int(n/len_cmds*100) if not percent % 5: if not percent in progress: print(str(percent) + "%") progress.append(percent) s.close() if __name__ == "__main__": import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Streams the G-code file to GRBL.") parser.add_argument( "filename", help="The file to stream.") args = parser.parse_args() stream(args.filename)