Connecting aftermarket touch probe while keeping Bitsetter

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I’ve been wanting to move to CNCjs and try using a digital touch probe to make milling multi op parts easier, and found this post on connecting an aftermarket probe to the existing Bitsetter slot: Edge finder probe - #20 by ChrisPro

Im a almost a complete noob when it comes to the electronics and software side of things, so forgive me if I’m missing the obvious.

In order to keep the Bitsetter, probe, do I just solder on the appropriate wires to a new connector and plug it in to the Bitsetter slot? How do I go about configuring both the Bitsetter and the probe in CNCjs?

Also do I need to understand JavaScript to do basic probing? I’m in process of learning programming but it’ll be a while until I can actually understand and write probing macros myself. For now I’m just probably just going to copy the already established ones and see what I can do to adapt them, if you guys have any useful resources to learn they’ll be much appreciated.

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There is a “Bitzero” plug on the board as well. Pretty sure they share the same circuit but you should not have to solder the connections together.

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Update, wired the probe to the bit zero connection and it works well with probing corners and finding the center of a circle.
I’m not exactly sure on how to measure the offset of the probe and probe Z with it. I know I’ll want to use the electronic probe to establish an offset on a fixed position on my machine, which I have, but how do I set up the macros to do that? Do I just make a new tool change macro with coordinates for the fixed position or is there more to it?
Thanks

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