Octoprint Serial Exceptions
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I think most people end up switching to using the DWC completely.
What exactly are you getting from Octoprint that you can't get from the DWC or through some other implementation?
Streaming a print over USB is always going to be problematic.
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@phaedrux
the problem with the lpc port is that most boards do not have a network connection. hence him trying to use octoprint. -
The Octoprint logs indicate that the USB CDC port driver reported that data was available, yet when Octoprint asked to read that data, none was provided. I am not familiar with the LPC code, but I can think of a few possible reasons:
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A bug in the low-level USB/CDC driver used in the LPC port. If that same driver is being used for other firmwares, this seems unlikely.
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A bug in how the LPC port of RRF uses the API to that driver.
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It could be that when Octoprint asks whether data is available, there is some; but by the time Octoprint asks for the data, RRF has timed out the buffer because it has been sitting around not being fetched for too long (perhaps it was about to time out when Octoprint asked whether data is available). RRF times out buffers of data destined for USB, because otherwise the printer would stall when there is no USB client or the client isn't reading messages fast enough. The code that does this is in function Platform::FlushMessages(). You might want to try increasing the value of SERIAL_MAIN_TIMEOUT, which is currently 1000ms.
However, unless the LPC port does things differently, then there is another buffer in the USB driver itself. The status returned by the driver should indicate whether there is data in that buffer, regardless of whether or not the main RepRapFirmware code has any buffers of data ready to send to USB.
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We're sending Gina (the creator of Octoprint) a Duet, so she may be able to help soon.
Brill, I cannot wait.
Struggled trying to setup a timelapse on my Pi, but I appreciate the info the person who did the write up on this forum.Hopefuly they will be able to interrogate the Duet over TCP/IP as opposed to USB!
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@paulhew I think on linux you can create virtual serial port from TCP via socat
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@dragonn I am sure someone could!!! I am not a Linux pro, it took me 2-3 days just trying to get Stretch working with a Pi camera and then installing Python3 etc.
I would rather donate to someone or buy, at least it will work and take the head scratching element out of it! -
@dc42 THANK YOU for the lead! I will bang away at it and communicate this with sdavi too.
I know that the LPC port is teetering on the bleeding edge. I know that its challenged for memory and processes. But I am hopefull that it can be figured out. I know that it has reduced MTU/MSS/buffers and only supports one client at a time, no sliding windows, all this from sdavi.
@Phaedrux yes, I am still w/o network still. trying to get my hands on Ethernet module for ReArm in the meantime. alternative is generic LAN8720 module to try. To my knowledge, the ReArm has a daughter board, X5 has wifi built in, the SKR, MKS boards only have TX/RX on UARTs. So they need a host via USB or an LCD to be functional.
Octoprint to me is more about printer management. I think of DWC as printer control- and I will freely admit that I have only witnessed it on a friend's printer and don't claim much first hand knowledge.
The things I like about it are the plugins for Tempgraphing over time, Heater timeout plugin (not sure if the idle timeout will control heaters yet), PSU control with ATX power supply which give me +5VFSB to power controller and Pi and then turn on the 12V main power via gcode or the LCD panel. Filament managment and inventory by print is nice too.Please don't take this as me complaining for features, I acknowledge and respect that RRF was not built for some of these tasks, and that some of them need a proper, full blown processor and subsystem to function. To my knowledge, Duet and RRF were not built to provide those things, and that is OK.
Thanks to all for your help so far.
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@sinned6915 said in Octoprint Serial Exceptions:
Ethernet module for ReArm in the meantime.
Ah, sorry about that. Didn't click for me that you were on ReArm. My bad.
I was just genuinely curious what you find missing from DWC that Octoprint does. When I switched over I missed a few plugins too, but generally they weren't all that important. So thanks for your breakdown.
I hope that Octoprint and the Duet can begin to function together more effectively. A lot of the power of Octoprint comes from the fact it's running on more fully featured hardware. The future looks bright in that regard.
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@phaedrux timelapse, spaghetti detector, and the ability to cancel individual items during a print are my top 3 reasons for using octoprint with my duet.
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@antlestxp cool. Makes sense. The only reason I use it now is for the Pallette 2
