RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released

Schmart

Hi @dc42, I upgraded my firmware from 2.05 to 3.0 to 3.01-RC3 yesterday without any issues. The breaking changes are fortunately very manageable for me and I think this major update makes the configuration concept much more logical and consistent. Thanks for the huge effort you're putting in! I did notice though, that increasing the speed factor (e.g. M220 S150 or increasing the 'speed factor' slider in DWC) no longer works properly. After a few moves have passed, the speed seems to only change briefly (for one move if I have to guess) and intermittently; sometimes there's no observable change at all. It seems that the speed changes back nearly immediately to 100% again.

Phaedrux

@Schmart As of 3.01 RC2:

The speed factor (M220) is no longer applied to extruder-only moves or to movement commands in system or user macro files

Is that perhaps what you're seeing?

Schmart

Hi @Phaedrux, I indeed saw that comment in the release notes as well, and now wondering what 'extruder-only moves' actually constitutes. I'd expect that this would not include regular print moves such as G1 X3 Y3 E0.8 F1800 but retraction or derectract moves such as G10/G11 or G1 E-0.5. I'm definitely seeing this with regular print moves as well. I also noticed that when I set the speed factor to 150%, a reset to 100% slows the print speed down to 50-60% for one move only. I guess something's not adding up with the changes made to M220 recently.

dc42

@Schmart said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

Hi @dc42, I upgraded my firmware from 2.05 to 3.0 to 3.01-RC3 yesterday without any issues. The breaking changes are fortunately very manageable for me and I think this major update makes the configuration concept much more logical and consistent. Thanks for the huge effort you're putting in! I did notice though, that increasing the speed factor (e.g. M220 S150 or increasing the 'speed factor' slider in DWC) no longer works properly. After a few moves have passed, the speed seems to only change briefly (for one move if I have to guess) and intermittently; sometimes there's no observable change at all. It seems that the speed changes back nearly immediately to 100% again.

Seem odd. I ran several prints yesterday with the speed factor set at 50% or 65% and it was definitely working. But I set the speed factor with PanelDue, not DWC.

If you run into this again, send M220 without parameters to see what speed factor is reported.

Having thought about it, one instance where I think there is a problem is if the F parameter for a printing move just happens to match the F parameter for the preceding extruder-only move, and the slicer notices that and leave it out. In other words, if the slicer generated this:

G1 E-5 F3000
G1 X50 Y60 F3000 E1.0

but the slicer noticed that the feed rate was the same for both moves and left out the F3000 on the second move, then the speed factor won't get applied to the second move. I'll fix this in RC4. You might like to check your GCode file to see if this situation is occurring.

c310

@dc42 said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

P is now the GPin pin number, so 1 in your case

i have tried for my emergency mushroom button

M581 P1 T0 C0

..no luck... what should exact string be?

dc42

@c310 said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

@dc42 said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

P is now the GPin pin number, so 1 in your case

i have tried for my emergency mushroom button
M581 P1 T0 C0
..no luck... what should exact string be?

That should work, provided that you still have this command before the M581:

M950 J1 C"e1stop"

The S0 or S1 option is still available in the M581 command.

Schmart

@dc42 said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

Having thought about it, one instance where I think there is a problem is if the F parameter for a printing move just happens to match the F parameter for the preceding extruder-only move, and the slicer notices that and leave it out. In other words, if the slicer generated this:

G1 E-5 F3000
G1 X50 Y60 F3000 E1.0

but the slicer noticed that the feed rate was the same for both moves and left out the F3000 on the second move, then the speed factor won't get applied to the second move. I'll fix this in RC4. You might like to check your GCode file to see if this situation is occurring.

Hi @dc42, I've included the gcode of a full single layer of a test cube I've been printing. My slicer (both Supermerill's Slic3r++ and PrusaSlicer) generate code such as the following:

; Layer 6 at 1.4mm
G10 ; retract
G1 Z1.400 F9000.000
; printing object Shape-Box id:0 copy 0
G1 X15.500 Y27.775
G11 ; unretract
G1 F1800.000
G1 X3.225 Y27.775 E0.39472
G1 X3.225 Y3.225 E0.78944
G1 X27.775 Y3.225 E0.78944
G1 X27.775 Y27.775 E0.78944
G1 X15.560 Y27.775 E0.39279

I'm doing print quality experiments with PETG and all print speeds consistently at 30mm/s. I don't know if the latter is a factor, but the slicer indeed decides to set a default feedrate for print moves and does not specify feed rates explicitly on every single G1. So I guess this fully corresponds with the scenario you've described where M220 wouldn't work properly yet?

I'll also try to print something today and see what M220 is reporting back when I set a speed factor. Thanks!

dc42

Thanks @Schmart, that explains it. I've made a change in RC4 that should fix it.

Schmart

@dc42 excellent, thank you! Looking forward to RC4 and I’ll be sure to put M220 through its paces once it’s released.

tobias_munich

homeall.g issues:

some times my homeall.g is not working correctly. its straight forward (see below).
it does the 1st line (homex.g) correctly and sometimes it goes directly to the last line homez.g without executing the 2nd line (homey.g)

no problem if i run each script separately .

M98 P"homex.g"
M98 P"homey.g"
M98 P"homez.g"

similar issue reported here
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/14854/homing-inconsistent-duet-3

@dc42 together with the "hanging" problem (see link below) of the RPi the DUET3+SBC setup is less reliable then before. But its stable if the DUET3 is running in standalone mode.

https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/14565/d3-pi-hangs-and-sometimes-won-t-reset?_=1583875893095

insertnamehere

I'm using conditional code to optimized bed leveling.

On occasions when the 2 points used are equal I get an initial deviation of NAN.

3/10/2020, 11:10:16 AM Leadscrew adjustments made: -0.001 -0.001, points used 2, (mean, deviation) before (-0.001, nan) after (0.000, 0.000)

I would expect that when 2 points are the same that the standard deviation for those points would be 0. If I'm wrong, how can I test for NAN in the conditional code?

dc42

@insertnamehere said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

I would expect that when 2 points are the same that the standard deviation for those points would be 0. If I'm wrong, how can I test for NAN in the conditional code?

I will fix that. Meanwhile you can use the built-in isnan function:

11/03/2020, 08:05:07 	echo isnan(sqrt(-1))
true

c310

@TurtlePrint said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

When sending the M112 command the printer turns off and then starts the hot end fan "fan1" at full speed

i have the same issue too. after M112 (or hardware mushroom button) printer stops, starts reboot and stucks with the cooling fan at 100% speed.

After it it is only possible to reload it by cycling power. when switching to reprap web interface - it gives a bit more diagnostics: "The firmware still reports to be halted after an emergency stop. Would you like to reset your board now?"
waiting for any long does not help either.

what can it be?

dc42

@c310 said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

@TurtlePrint said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

When sending the M112 command the printer turns off and then starts the hot end fan "fan1" at full speed

i have the same issue too. after M112 (or hardware mushroom button) printer stops, starts reboot and stucks with the cooling fan at 100% speed.

M112 has always done that. The printer should still respond to M999.

c310

@dc42 thanks, m999 works however to do so i need to use /reprap UI, DWC remains "blocked" untill power cycle.

in old good times of 2.x firmware mushroom button not only stopped operations, but also made
web interface responsive after reset (that does not happen in 3.01-RC3 )

what is a way to link m999 to emergency stop button (instead of triggering m112) without macros ?
or what can be done to run m999 after m112 generated by mushroom button ?

dc42

@insertnamehere said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

I'm using conditional code to optimized bed leveling.

On occasions when the 2 points used are equal I get an initial deviation of NAN.

3/10/2020, 11:10:16 AM Leadscrew adjustments made: -0.001 -0.001, points used 2, (mean, deviation) before (-0.001, nan) after (0.000, 0.000)

I would expect that when 2 points are the same that the standard deviation for those points would be 0. If I'm wrong, how can I test for NAN in the conditional code?

The NaNs should be gone in the internal build at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3azy1njy3ayjsbp/AACquxr2m00eV568RZg5QG5wa?dl=0.

mundsen

When do you plan to release RC4?

Danal

I may be off track here, but the reset problem described (here and in several other threads)... I believe the fix for that is having DuetControlServer restart itself as the last action when processing an M999.

I've built a version that does that, and opened a pull request on Github in chrishamm/DuetControlServer repository.

Meanwhile, if anyone is willing to try the 1.2.4.0 version of DuetControlServer with this fix, download this file:

http://danalspub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DuetControlServer.zip

Unzip, and place the two files inside in /opt/dsf/bin

The 'DuetControlServer' file should have attributes of -rwxr-xr-x. If for some reason it does not, run chmod 755 DuetControlServer

After the copies:
sudo systemctl stop duetcontrolserver
sudo systemctl start duetcontrolserver

If you decide to go back, run:

sudo apt-get reinstall duetcontrolserver

or

sudo apt-get reinstall duetcontrolserver=specific version number you wish

You can find all available versions via:
apt-cache policy duetcontrolserver

gtj0

@Danal I'll test it later today. Thanks!

gtj0

@Danal Had to recompile with your pull request because I use a 64 bit distro but it seemed to work OK.