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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.

Info

Affected file: /home/pocketnc/pocketnc/Settings/features/high_speed_spindle/overlay.inc

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  1. 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

  2. In the terminal, enter the following commands:

    1. Change directory to Pocket NC Settings directory

      Code Block
      cd /home/pocketnc/pocketnc/Settings
    2. Remove untracked edits from the affected file

      Code Block
      git checkout -- features/high_speed_spindle/overlay.inc
    3. Change directory Pocket NC home directory

      Code Block
      cd /home/pocketnc/pocketnc
    4. 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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