I was asked by several people about the Linux CNC installation in my previous video on bench-testing the servos and drivers for my DIY CNC Mill conversion, so I decided to record the whole process including the installation of probe_basic.
It's split into two sections; the first, captured on Windows 10, where I download the linuxcnc 2.8.2 ISO and create a bootable USB flash drive, and the second where I captured the HDMI output of the Intel NUC DCCP847DYE as I installed LinuxCNC 2.8.2 and then installed probe_basic.
00:00 Title 00:12 Download ISO & Create bootable flash drive 06:36 Install LinuxCNC 2.8.2 on the Intel NUC 17:00 Download and install probe_basic gui
Thanks to Small Shop Concepts ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAPAd65uwVDwIE3l7ngNfw ) for the clarification about the creators of qtpyvcp and the Probe Basic interface. Please see the pinned comment for specifics. I put a card to their channel at the appropriate point in the video as well.
NOTE: This install should work for 2.8.4 version of Linux CNC as well HOWEVER there are definitely some Python2 vs Python3 issues with the versions being used. I'll be making a new video soon on installing a more up to date version of everything with Python 3 only. In the meantime, you can check out this thread on the LinuxCNC Forum [ https://forum.linuxcnc.org/qtpyvcp/45141-probe-basic-install ] for more details.
Joco-NZ created a script that that will install linuxcnc, qtpyvcp and probe_basic from a clean install of Debian 11 (bullseye). It's available on his github [ https://github.com/joco-nz/lcnc-bullseye-installer ]. Thanks to rodw from the linuxcnc forum for posting that script in a comment!