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    Quote Originally Posted by Mjolinor View Post
    Forget the USB. Pick up the RS232 Tx and Rx lines and feed them to a Moxa serial to ethernet.

    There are USB <> ethernet but I have no experience with them.
    But my printer does not have a RS232 output only USB.. or there is another way?

    Quote Originally Posted by ffvader View Post
    suggest you pick up a raspberry pi2 and run octoprint.
    you can feed your rpi2 with either eithernet or wifi
    you can setup a usb cam and there are free android apps that let you control your printer and view the camera
    working great for me
    edit : just make sure to install the gpx plugin
    if you use slic3r you can go right from slic3r to the printer/octoprint
    if use use simplify3d, you can just turn off generate .x3g and save the gcode to your desktop and then drag and drop to your octoprint browser session.
    Will it work with Makerbot slicer? Where I bought my FFCP did not provide me even an option to purchase Simplify3D and I tried only Makerbot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcrgr View Post
    Will it work with Makerbot slicer? Where I bought my FFCP did not provide me even an option to purchase Simplify3D and I tried only Makerbot.
    If makerbot slicer exports gcode (not .xg3) then yes it would work because the gpx plugin on the octoprint server will convert it to .xg3 and send it to your printer.

    Not sure i would suggest team view or hardware mod (not that i have a problem with hardware mod's - but the octoprint approach is much safer and easier)

    if you use teamviewer, you are still susceptible to pc crashes, loosing interet. etc.
    depending on your skills with a soldering iron you may or may not want to mess with that, i was originally going to go that route until i discovered the octoprint route and since my local pc store had rpi2's for $29 i figured what the heck.
    I'm happy with that method because it allows me remote control of my printer, while viewing it through a web cam and i can shut my pc off at night and just let my printer and print server do all the work.
    bonus i got to print an rpi2 case

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