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A number of Pocket NC V2s produced in July, August, and the period May-September of 2019 left our facility with an undesired edit to a software configuration file. This does not affect the normal operation of the machine. However, it does mean that our software update process will fail if the change in versions also produces a change to this update changes the same file.
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Affected file: /home/pocketnc/pocketnc/Settings/features/high_speed_spindle/overlay.inc |
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Establish a command line session over SSH.
Windows PC: you will need to install an SSH client. We recommend PuTTY.
Once PuTTY is installed and launched, we'll just need to input the IP address (192.168.7.2 if connecting over USB) to the Host Name field, everything else can be left default.
Macs: this can be done with the default MacOS Terminal
Open a Terminal window and enter
ssh pocketnc@192.168.7.2
You will be prompted for a password, which is
pocketnc
In the terminal, enter the following commands:
Change directory to Pocket NC Settings directory
Code Block cd /home/pocketnc/pocketnc/Settings
Remove untracked edits from the affected file
Code Block git checkout -- features/high_speed_spindle/overlay.inc
Change directory Pocket NC home directory
Code Block cd /home/pocketnc/pocketnc
Run update script to ensure everything is in-sync (replace . Replace “v4.7.4” with the version you want your machine to be on)desired version.
Code Block ./updateScript.sh v4.7.4
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