My Arduino is not accabale right now but I wanted to look at a new GUI or gcode sender program for Grbl called SourceRabbit GCode Sender. I already had the simulator compiled and ready to go and the next step was just to find a way to connect both together. I found that the program socat can do just this:

socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/tmp/ttyV0 pty,raw,echo=0,link=/tmp/ttyV1

This creates two virtual serial ports with the names /tmp/ttyV0 and /tmp/ttyV1 and connect both together. Now I just need to direct the output and input of Grbl to one of the virtual serial ports:

./grbl_sim -n > /tmp/ttyV0 < /tmp/ttyV0

To test if this works I can use a command line terminal program like miniterm and connect to the other virtual serial port

miniterm.py /tmp/ttyV1

Now that everything is working I can finally test the new SourceRabbit GCode Sender program.

>>> $$
$0=10 (step pulse, usec)
$1=25 (step idle delay, msec)
$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)
$3=2 (dir port invert mask:00000010)
$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)
$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)
$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)
$10=3 (status report mask:00000011)
$11=0.050 (junction deviation, mm)
$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)
$13=0 (report inches, bool)
$14=1 (auto start, bool)
$20=1 (soft limits, bool)
$21=0 (hard limits, bool)
$22=1 (homing cycle, bool)
$23=1 (homing dir invert mask:00000001)
$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)
$25=250.000 (homing seek, mm/min)
$26=250 (homing debounce, msec)
$27=3.000 (homing pull-off, mm)
$100=87.489 (x, step/mm)
$101=87.489 (y, step/mm)
$102=640.000 (z, step/mm)
$110=4000.000 (x max rate, mm/min)
$111=4000.000 (y max rate, mm/min)
$112=650.000 (z max rate, mm/min)
$120=15.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)
$121=15.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)
$122=15.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)
$130=204.000 (x max travel, mm)
$131=204.000 (y max travel, mm)
$132=54.000 (z max travel, mm)
ok