RepPanel - A DIY alternative to the PanelDue with WiFi support

taconite

In sum there my be up to 40 but they are in 2 folders

PCR

think 16x max

taconite

And I have just seen, that directories are not supported

seeul8er

@taconite That is not true. Directories are supported with max 16 entries

KenOlo

While trying to start the ESP32/PCB and attached touch screen the monitor window shows that the touch panel is found but there is an error whille trying to read from the device. What could cause this?
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[0;32mI (210) ILI9488: ILI9488 initialization.[0m
[0;32mI (510) ILI9488: Enabling backlight.[0m
[0;32mI (510) FT6X36: Found touch panel controller[0m
[0;31mE (510) FT6X36: Error reading from device: ERROR[0m
[0;32mI (510) FT6X36: Device ID: 0x00[0m
[0;32mI (520) FT6X36: Chip ID: 0x00[0m
[0;32mI (520) FT6X36: Device mode: 0x00[0m
[0;32mI (530) FT6X36: Firmware ID: 0x00[0m
[0;32mI (530) FT6X36: Release code: 0x00[0m
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seeul8er

@KenOlo "Found touch panel controller" just indicates that the FT6X36 driver is being inited. It does not say anything about a successful init. If you can not read from the device there is no connection.
I get that the message is not 100% clear at this point.

I suggest you check your connection and if you got the correct display

KenOlo

@seeul8er Found the problem. My touch panel was configured for 5v, some soldering on jumper JP and it's now configured for 3,3v. Problem solved and it works perfectly!

JohnOCFII

Greetings All,

I'm trying the initial setup of the RepPanel and the PCB from PCR. After getting some of the ESP software installed, I was following the instructions, and plugged in the RepPanel, and realized that it came with the software already installed!

I'm now trying to configure it, and getting stuck. I think I'm on my network, as I see my router handed out an IP address to the RepPanel, but the WiFi signal indicator is sort of orange, and one the screen shots I see here, it shows as green. Also, when I enter in either my Duet's DNS name or IP address, I get no indication it has connected. Also -- I don't have an M551 Password on my printer, so I assume I can leave that field blank?

Also - my password has a space in it, and it is really difficult to tell if the space was accepted as you have to scroll down so far to get the space bar that you can't see the WiFi password field. Not sure if this is an issue for me here or not.

Thank for any guidance.

seeul8er

@JohnOCFII Sorry for the late reply. An orange Wifi icon indicates that you are connected to the Wifi access point but RepPanel has not gotten any response from the printer yet. So you are not connected to the Duet.

I never tested it without a Duet password. Try using a password if you keep getting stuck. Maybe the implementation expects one, I am not sure.

The keyboard in general is a bit tricky I know. Since you only use it during the initial setup I kind of did not see a point spending too much time on improving it.

JohnOCFII

@seeul8er said in RepPanel - A DIY alternative to the PanelDue with WiFi support:

@JohnOCFII An orange Wifi icon indicates that you are connected to the Wifi access point but RepPanel has not gotten any response from the printer yet. So you are not connected to the Duet.

Thanks for the info.

I never tested it without a Duet password. Try using a password if you keep getting stuck. Maybe the implementation expects one, I am not sure.

I added a password, and confirmed it is required and accepted from a regular web browser. I'm still stuck at the same point. If I hit the "circular arrows" button to the right of the Printer address line, I get the pop-up shown below. I select Duet from the list, but nothing else changes.

If I re-enter the printer IP address and password, and then hit Save The WiFi symbol changes from the orange WiFi fan to a light orange circular arrow for a few seconds, then turns back to the orange WiFi fan.

The keyboard in general is a bit tricky I know. Since you only use it during the initial setup I kind of did not see a point spending too much time on improving it.

That makes sense.

seeul8er

@JohnOCFII RepPanel cannot connect/find your Duet. Make sure you can connect to it via the browser. Also beware of white spaces at the beginning of the IP address when entering it in RepPanel.

The circular arrow means just it is trying to reconnect to the wifi with updated credentials.
What version of Duet & RRF are you running?

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JohnOCFII

@seeul8er said in RepPanel - A DIY alternative to the PanelDue with WiFi support:

@JohnOCFII RepPanel cannot connect/find your Duet. Make sure you can connect to it via the browser. Also beware of white spaces at the beginning of the IP address when entering it in RepPanel.

The circular arrow means just it is trying to reconnect to the wifi with updated credentials.
What version of Duet & RRF are you running?

I re-entered my WiFi password again, and this time it took. So, that was my issue. Since I saw the RepPanel was associated with the correct SSID, I assumed it meant the SSID password was correct, so I hadn't triple checked that before.

Since I had to slide the edit page up to get to the space-bar in the keyboard entry, I could not also see the password field at the same time as I was entering data. Since the asterisks were populating the field, I could not be sure I had the correct password entered.

seeul8er

@JohnOCFII Great to see you got it working now If you click the "wifi-fan" RepPanel displays some extra info about the connection.

JohnOCFII

@seeul8er said in RepPanel - A DIY alternative to the PanelDue with WiFi support:

@JohnOCFII Great to see you got it working now If you click the "wifi-fan" RepPanel displays its IP address.

It even shows signal strength. I like it!

A couple of questions. First, based on the notes here and on GitHub I went through and added a Filament entry, and also trimmed my macro directory back to 16 items. I also trimmed my various print job directories back to 16 as well. These all seemed to help stability, as my RepPanel was freezing after a few second to minutes before I did that.

Also, I noticed that the Hot-End / Extruder title does not show up on the attached screen shot. Second thing, while I have temperatures to choose from for Bed (active and standby) for the Hot-end I only see temps in the standby window). Curious...

I'm doing my first print now, initiated from RepPanel!

Thanks for this creative solution!

JohnOCFII

Oh -- and the password was a red herring. It works fine without an M551 password.

seeul8er

What is your "Hotend-Name"?
How many temperatures do you have configured?

The temperatures should come from the Web Control config file. A user reported that there are issues if the file is too large and RepPanel can not cache it. Go to your Duet Web control and clear the command history. You do that by entering something in the command console and wait for the auto suggestions. Then you can select the trashcan to delete an entry. That may fix some issues.

JohnOCFII

@seeul8er Clearing out the command auto-complete buffer (I probably had 800 entries) allowed my hot-end temperatures to show up. So yeah -- probably some memory contention somewhere there.

The odd thing is -- on the RepPanel 0°C shows up seven times. DWC seems to show a "normal" number of entries.

I'll look through my config to see if anything looks odd to me.

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seeul8er

@JohnOCFII Yeah, we are very limited on the RAM side. The Duet Config often just breaks the bank.

Your temperatures are alright. RepPanel displays 14 temperatures at any times. If you got less, then all the remaining temps are filled up with 0°C. That is a little workaround which allows the application to use a matrix button widget. That reduces the RAM usage, is bug safe and increases speed a lot. Also makes it easier to handle programmatically.