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JC3 Mobile
Updated v2.6.1At a glance
- Use any phone or tablet on your shop network as a pendant, an Agent Tower and a camera — nothing to install from an app store
- Sign in with one shop PIN or by scanning a QR code; see every signed-in phone and sign any of them out
- Large-button pendant with a GcodePilot-style DRO for every JetCad3-powered machine on the network, including machines on paired computers
- Motion stops when you let go, when the phone sleeps or drops off Wi-Fi, or when another phone takes control
- Talk to Agent Tower from the shop floor: send photos, follow replies, steer or stop a turn, answer questions
- Photos land in the computer's photo inbox with location data removed, ready for Agent Tower or SnapTrace
- Works fully offline on your own network; add it to your home screen and it opens like an app
JC3 Mobile is a web app that JetCad3 serves to phones and tablets on your shop network. Open it in the phone's browser, sign in with the shop PIN, and you have a pendant, Agent Tower and a camera that feeds straight into JetCad3. It is off until you turn it on, and it never needs the internet.
Turn it on
- Open Settings → Mobile and set a shop PIN (4–12 digits). Everyone in the shop can share it.
- Switch Turn on JC3 Mobile on.
- On a phone connected to the same Wi-Fi, open the address shown — it looks like
http://shop-office.local:49255/— or tap Show sign-in QR code and scan it with the phone's camera to sign in without typing the PIN. The code works once and expires after two minutes.
The address uses this computer's name, so it keeps working when your router hands the computer a
new IP address. If a phone can't open the .local name (some older Android phones), use the IP
address listed underneath, and reserve that address for this computer in your router so it never
changes. You can rename the address under Advanced → Phone address name.
Put it on the home screen
- iPhone and iPad: open the address in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Open JC3 Mobile from the new icon and sign in once with the shop PIN — the home-screen app keeps its own sign-in, separate from Safari.
- Android: open the address in Chrome, tap ⋮, then Add to Home screen. On a shop-network address Chrome opens it in a window with the address bar showing; everything works the same.
Who can get in
- Settings → Mobile lists every signed-in phone with Sign out.
- Changing the PIN signs every phone out.
- Several wrong PINs in a row pause PIN entry for a while.
- JC3 Mobile is plain web traffic on your own network. Treat the PIN like a shop key and change it when someone leaves.
Pendant
Pick a machine, tap Take control, and jog with large hold-to-move buttons or fixed steps. The DRO matches GcodePilot. Start, Hold, Resume, Stop, overrides, Test Torch, THC and the other pendant actions appear for the machine's type.
- One phone controls a machine at a time. Taking over tells the other phone and stops its motion.
- Motion stops when you lift your finger, when the phone sleeps or loses the network, and when another phone takes control.
- While a program runs, only Stop, Hold, Resume and overrides are accepted.
- Machines connected to another JetCad3 computer appear too, once that computer allows Jog and run machines connected here from a JC3 Mobile pendant for this one in Settings → Nearby.
The phone is not an emergency stop. Keep the machine's physical E-stop within reach.
Agent Tower
Choose a project and conversation, type or attach photos, and watch the reply arrive. You can steer or stop a running turn and answer the agent's questions and approvals from the phone.
Photos
Tap Take photo or Choose photos. Photos go to this computer's photo inbox with their location data removed. In Agent Tower on the computer, the From phone button attaches them; SnapTrace opens them directly.