Hello guys and girls.

Has anyone got a mechanical probe like the BLTouch working with Repetier? interested in adding a probe to my old Di3 but a quick google seems to be telling me its a bit of a nightmare on Repetier over Marlin.

I have been out of FDM printing for a while, playing with DLP, but want to get back into printing larger mechanical parts on my old but faithful Duplicator i3 I have modified for ABS printing and thought while I'm knocking the dust off it, why not look at upgrading a little further with something like Z probing/Autoleveling.....but being a little out of touch!

As I have a glass bed with PEI inductive is out, and not a fan of capacitive, due to all the things that can throw them off, I guess that leaves optical and mechanical?

So, I guess I'm asking what you guys would do in my situation, my mainboard is a RADDS 1.5 (DRV8825 Drivers @ 1/32 micro steps) running Repetier firmware.

Thank you for taking the time to read!

I use the 3d touch probe on repetier firmware, its a doddle to set up compared to marlin,
See my reply to this thread for pics repetier pics

Thanks, uploaded my current Configuration.h and followed your images, what should I put in for probs X Y offsets? also seem to be missing:

Min. Homing Temperature
XY Homing pos. for Z




Also, have a huge number of new "I'm a new option!" available, not sure what one I need and dont....ummm...here is the list if anyone wants to help!?

General
Keep Alive Interval (set at 2000)

Z-correction (distortion correction)
Minimum/maximum points for distortion measurement. Select largest possible area that can be reached with your z-probe. (all set to 10)

Stepper
Move X only after homing (MOVE_X_WHEN_HOMED) (unticked)
Move Y only after homing (MOVE_Y_WHEN_HOMED) (unticked)
Move Z only after homing (MOVE_Z_WHEN_HOMED) (unticked)
Prevent z stepper disabling on stepper timeout. (PREVENT_Z_DISABLE_ON_STEPPER_TIMEOUT) (unticked)
Mirror motor signals to fourth stepper driver (FEATURE_FOUR_ZSTEPPER) (unticked)
Modify acceleration with increasing z position (Dont interpolate)

Endstops
Park Position X, Y, srt yo 0 and Z set to 10mm

Jam detection and out of filament detection
Jam method Steps between signal changes

Fused Filament Fabrication
Extruder XY Switch Speed 100 mm/s
Raise Z on Toolchange 0
Extruders share same heater from extruder 0 definition (SHARED_EXTRUDER_HEATER) (unticked)

Features
Enable second fan control (M106/M107 P1) for cooling. (FEATURE_FAN2_CONTROL) (unticked)
Enable JSON formated info output for ESP8266 Duet web interface, PanelDue (JSON_OUTPUT) (unticked)
Enable power on startup for switchable power units (ENABLE_POWER_ON_STARTUP) (ticked)
Invert signal for switchable power units (POWER_INVERTING) (unticked)
Automatically enable PS ON pin on usage of steppers and heaters (AUTOMATIC_POWERUP) (unticked)
Thermo Coupled Fan Pin Disabled

Z-Probing
Probe only with hot extruder (Z_PROBE_REQUIRES_HEATING) (unticked)
Run after each measurement script Blank
Bed Correction Method Software correction of rotation

I would use one of the homing options with pre-heat as this lets you choose the x y coords to home Z,set the pre heat temp to 0 to stop it actually heating up.

The X Y probe offsets depends on the x y distance of your probe from the nozzle.

Thanks obewan,

Will Print a mount and adjust the firmware!

Sure I will have more question when it all mounted

Would it be possible for someone to double check my configuration?

Can't seem to find the options for:

Pre raise Z axis
Pre raise Distance
Min. Homing Temperature
XY Homing pos. for Z

Ignore above missing options, was not in Repetier-Firmware configuration tool for version 1.0.2

So here is my Config setting so far:







Could also do with a hand with the offsets as my carriage is 220x220mm, but my glass bed is 200x213mm, so my home is off the bed by about 5mm and don't want to probe off the bed and risk damaging the probe or driving my hotend into the glass bed!



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2018 06:04PM by peps1.

You still need to set the X and Y offsets for the probe position in relation to the nozzle otherwise the firmware can not compensate for probing positions.
Is the prone in front or behind the nozzle, and how many mm ?
Is the probe to the left or the right of the nozzle and how many mm ?

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obewan
You still need to set the X and Y offsets for the probe position in relation to the nozzle otherwise the firmware can not compensate for probing positions.
Is the prone in front or behind the nozzle, and how many mm ?
Is the probe to the left or the right of the nozzle and how many mm ?

Moved the nozzle to a spot on the bed and got:
X= 111.40
Y= 80.00
Z= 0.00

And moved the tip of the probe to the same spot and got:
X= 139.00
Y= 122.00
Z= 0.00

my probe is in front and to the left, so my offset be:
X -27.6
Y -42
Right?



My many concern now is with such a large offset and no X axis max stop, will the hotend slam into the right-hand side of my printer support (its a i3 style printer).

And how to tweak the Z stop so it triggers at the right hight?

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2018 07:14PM by peps1.

uggggg......having no luck with this firmware update with the added probe, when my printer loads up it just asks me the language then shows me the home screen with the bed and hot end at 7° (its should about 24°) and if I try and home XY or Z it just hangs on Homing..... ***Please Wait*** and nothing happens

Could really do with some help here.

Edit to add:

Just check and took my old firmware Configuration.h and put it in Repetier-Firmware configuration tool for version 1.0.2 made no changes, downloaded complete firmware and had the same issue!?!?! seems my 0.92.3 version works but can't get 1.0.2 to work even with no changes to config.h???

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2018 08:35PM by peps1.

Try just selecting one language so it defaults to it.

I see you have selected generic therimstor table 1, have you created your own table for this ? better to select one of the pre set thermistors for bed and extruder.

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obewan
Try just selecting one language so it defaults to it.

I see you have selected generic therimstor table 1, have you created your own table for this ? better to select one of the pre set thermistors for bed and extruder.

Changed them to 104GT-2 for the hotend and NTC 100K for the bed

Hotend I'm using this:
[www.banggood.com]

Bed I'm using this:
[www.ebay.co.uk]

Still having the same issues where I can move anything and hanging on the ***Please Wait***

Here is what octoprint is getting in the terminal if that's any help?

Changing monitoring state from "Offline" to "Detecting serial port"
Serial port list: ['/dev/ttyACM0']
Connecting to: /dev/ttyACM0
Changing monitoring state from "Detecting serial port" to "Opening serial port"
Connected to: Serial(port='/dev/ttyACM0', baudrate=115200, bytesize=8, parity='N', stopbits=1, timeout=10.0, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False), starting monitor
Starting baud rate detection
Changing monitoring state from "Opening serial port" to "Detecting baudrate"
Trying baudrate: 115200
Send: N0 M110 N0*125
Recv: start
Changing monitoring state from "Detecting baudrate" to "Operational"
Recv: InfoowerUp
Send: N0 M110 N0*125
Recv: Detected EEPROM version:19
Recv: Transformation matrix: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
Recv: Free RAM:83864
Recv: Card successfully initialized.
Recv: SelectExtruder:0
Recv: FlowMultiply:100
Recv: ok
Send: N1 M115*39
Recv: ok 1
Send: N2 M21*18
Recv: FIRMWARE_NAME:Repetier_1.0.2 COMPILED:Jun 24 2018 FIRMWARE_URL:[github.com] PROTOCOL_VERSION:1.0 MACHINE_TYPE:Mendel EXTRUDER_COUNT:1 REPETIER_PROTOCOL:3
Recv: CapROGRESS:1
Recv: Cap:AUTOREPORT_TEMP:1
Recv: Cap:EEPROM:1
Recv: Cap:AUTOLEVEL:1
Recv: Cap:Z_PROBE:1
Recv: CapOFTWARE_POWER:0
Recv: Cap:TOGGLE_LIGHTS:0
Recv: CapAUSESTOP:1
Recv: CapREHEAT:1
Recv: Printed filament:610.02m Printing time:4 days 16 hours 29 min
Recv: PrinterMode:FFF
Recv: ok 2
[...]
Recv: Card successfully initialized.
Recv: ok 3
Send: N4 M115*34
[...]
Recv: ok 4
Send: N5 M21*21
Recv: FIRMWARE_NAME:Repetier_1.0.2 COMPILED:Jun 24 2018 FIRMWARE_URL:[github.com] PROTOCOL_VERSION:1.0 MACHINE_TYPE:Mendel EXTRUDER_COUNT:1 REPETIER_PROTOCOL:3
Recv: CapROGRESS:1
Recv: Cap:AUTOREPORT_TEMP:1
Recv: Cap:EEPROM:1
Recv: Cap:AUTOLEVEL:1
Recv: Cap:Z_PROBE:1
Recv: CapOFTWARE_POWER:0
Recv: Cap:TOGGLE_LIGHTS:0
Recv: CapAUSESTOP:1
Recv: CapREHEAT:1
Recv: Printed filament:610.02m Printing time:4 days 16 hours 29 min
Recv: PrinterMode:FFF
Recv: ok 5
Send: N6 M20*23
Recv: Card successfully initialized.
Recv: ok 6
Recv: Begin file list
Send: N7 M155 S2*100
Recv: Adjustable BLTouch Support 767079
Recv: spout_small_with_threads_n 1452250
Recv: BLTouch_auto_bed_levelling 180670
Recv: BLTouchMount (1).gcode 168534
Recv: End file list
Recv: ok 7
Send: N8 M155 S2*107
Recv: ok 8
[...]

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/2018 12:30PM by peps1.

Solved the firmware issue, had totally forgotten I had upgraded stepper drivers on this printer and the config.h did not reflect that, so now I have a working 1.0.2 firmware without probe, will make the changes and see if I can get probe working!

No joy, BLTouch just not lighting up or reacting to any Gcode.

Have it wire in like this, but without the additional servo +5v as I read you only need that when you have light but not the amps to trigger the pin @obewan did you have to use the servo +5v?

(and what should the servo pin be set too? right now its digital pin 11).



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/2018 05:05PM by peps1.

OK, wired up an extra 5v to the servo and set servo pin to digital pin 5.

Can now run all the commands Pin-UP, Pin-Down, SelfTest and so on.

But when I home the Z or run the auto level via the UI, the BLTouch will trigger, lift up, repeat......then nosedive through the bed! (when doing the auto level it also totally ignores the offset?)