Raspberry Pi XCarve Server

A Node.js Raspberry Pi server for controlling an attached XCarve from a remote machine.

Installation

Make sure you have the latest stable version of Node.js installed on your Raspberry Pi. You can download it from the node-arm project.

pi@xcarve ~ $ node -v
v0.12.6

Make sure the global npm folder on your Raspberry Pi is writable by the pi user.

pi@xcarve ~ $ chown -R pi /usr/local

Install forever and xcarve-server on your Raspberry Pi.

pi@xcarve ~ $ npm install -g forever xcarve-server

Starting the Daemon

If everything has been installed, you can start the server daemon by running the following command:

pi@xcarve ~ $ xcarve-server

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 ██╔██╗╚════╝██║     ██╔══██║██╔══██╗╚██╗ ██╔╝██╔══╝
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╚═╝  ╚═╝      ╚═════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝  ╚═══╝  ╚══════╝

starting server daemon on port 1338...

Stopping the Daemon

pi@xcarve ~ $ forever stopall