Re Arm Board Start up issues.

I purchased a Re Arm board from Panucatt Devices to replace my Arduino 2560 Mega Board .

Now my problem I have look all over to understand the Smoothie system but am just not getting it.
I am familiar with the arduino Marlin software have been working with it for years. But the
new re Arm board only runs Smoothie Any ways I thought I would try the Smoothie
system on my delta printer.

Problems I am having start very simply How do you load files to the smoothie board , Ardunio does
not work. I have been told just load the config file on the micro sd card and restart the board it will
load from there. If it is happening I am not seeing it. Board is still dead . No Disply no signs of life.

Is there any tell tail signs I am doing it right and there is an issue with the config file?
Arduino has many ways to now if there is an issue ,compile errors, load errors. Smoothie
has now to lead me in the direction of a fix.

Is the config file suppose to be a .txt?
Does the file need to be compiled? if so how?
to get the display to work is all that is needed is to configure the display settings in the Config file? Arduino had me install a separate sketch
to get the display to work.

You should read the re-arm quick start guide [panucattdevices.freshdesk.com]

Other useful re-arm stuff here [panucattdevices.freshdesk.com]

And finally the ultimate resource where EVERYTHING smoothieware is documented [smoothieware.org]

But basically everything is on the micro sd card on the board.

"How do you load files to the smoothie board"
The sd card should be visible as a drive on your machine when you plug your board in. Or worse case you need a sdcard reader and you read it directly.

"One of the really appreciated features of the Smoothie firmware is that it doesn't require editing source code, compiling, or flashing, in order to edit the configuration.
Instead, Smoothie is configured simply by editing a configuration file on its sd-card."

So to update the firmware you put the firmware.bin file on the SD card, turn the board on it will install the new firmware. and rename the file to FIRMWARE.CUR

To change settings use a text editor the file "config" on the sd card. The filename must be named config or config.txt

There is a example config for re-arm on panucattdevices site [panucattdevices.freshdesk.com]

The only negative thing of the re-arm I know of so far is that they don’t have the standard smoothie monitoring LED's making working out what is going on tricky.
But you can add them. See the thread [forums.reprap.org]

Re the display see [panucattdevices.freshdesk.com]

Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2017 06:30PM by Dust.