I am currently trying out CNCjs, coincidently. The machine works just fine with the same configuration as I had updated for CM…
Interesting, so there is indeed a hardcoded min Z limit in CM.
If you are trying out CNCjs, you will like @neilferreri probing macro for the C3D probe.
I’m now using CNCjs with a Raspberry Pi4 - got the probing macros, everything is working flawlessly. It is a very nice upgrade. The only thing I don’t like about CNCjs is the lack of a continuous jog function…rather than repeated key presses.
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I feel you. That’s the one grudge I had about CNCjs. I geeked out and developed a pendant for CNCjs that implements smooth jogging, but it’s based on a specific piece of harware. If you are not afraid of a little coding, it should possible to implement a smooth jogging pendant based on regular keyboard commands.
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@Julien - I saw your post on the pendant, nice work. A little coding has never deterred me from a project, but as I get older I have developed a more effective “new project” filter that keeps me from taking everything on at once! Sometimes I would rather spend money than time 
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I need to get me one of those, sooner rather than later 
(because right now I’m tempted to go and check CNCjs code to see what it would take to implement smooth jogging)
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@Julien - While you’re at it Julien, see what it would take to use a remote keypad, like the one
Myers demonstrates. 
I use that all the time on Carbide Motion and it would be great on CNCjs
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Well, if you are talking about this video, that’s not even a challenge, someone already did it
It does not implement smooth jogging though. If anyone is interested I can try adding it in.
Does that work in a Windows environment? It seems like it’s for a Raspberry Pi
Theoretically, it can work in a windows environment, one “just” needs to install Node.js framework.
In practice, I tried, lost an evening trying to make it work, then went back to my comfort zone (linux/raspberry), and got the environment working in minutes…
If I were to mod CNCjs for Windows, I would most probably directly hack the CNCjs source code itself, not add a pendant. I already successfully rebuilt the CNCjs app for Windows from source, so I know it’s doable. But diving into the full CNCjs source code and figuring out where to insert the hack, now that’s a different story (a.k.a. “hey let’s see if I can do this…[a few moments later]…hey where did the week-end go?”
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Yes. I’m interested.
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Ok then! It may take a little while (life gets in the way) but I’ll have a look at it. Are you using any specific wireless keyboard? (the one from the video?)
I am certainly interested. You da man!!!
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Are you insinuating life is more important than CNC? That’s just pure blasphemy! 
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I happen to use that exact keyboard shown in the video…
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I also have the exact same one from Myers video.
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I also have this problem. After doing the corrections in cm my z axis will not go down
all the way like it should this is very frustrating the only thing i could find was someone said just
put it back to the HDZ and dont use the rapids that seem kinda stupid to me carbide3d need to to fix this
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