really need help with firmware

hi everyone. im in a bit of a state here. i need help with marlin software. i just spent 2 hours going through it making changes needed to try and get my printer working and when i went to save it, platformio trashed the whole lot, now it just has line after line saying "script blah blah blah"

even after deleting the entire marlin folder and redownloading it platformio just wont open anything correctly so im really hoping a kind person on here will help me out.

im running an ender 3 pro with the BTT skr mini e3 V3 with a cr touch added and e3d V6 hot end.

i know theres issues with z probe homing and used this firmware from [github.com] and mavrears post which got the cr touch working, but its only the .bin file and no config files to make the changes needed for the V5 hot end......is anyone on here able to make the changes to the firmware so that the hotend and cr touch both work? please i know this is a huge ask, but im not good with firmware and i tried to ask e3d for help and they just emailed me a bunch of links to poor and shoddy guides.

ok so i had another go, but it wont compile in visual code studio, heres my files

[www.dropbox.com]

The error is very clear

"Marlin/src/HAL/STM32/HAL.h:74:6: error: #error "SERIAL_PORT_2 must be from 1 to 6. You can also use -1 if the board supports Native USB.""

In your config your have

#define SERIAL_PORT_2 0

is 0 in the range 1 to 6? no it is not.


You have a BOARD_BTT_SKR_MINI_E3_V3_0

Serial ports on this controller

-1 usb port
1 EXP1
2 TFT port

You don't seem to be using a second serial port so simply disable it

//#define SERIAL_PORT_2 0

also disable #define PINS_DEBUGGING It doesn't work on this old code on that board.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/2022 05:37PM by Dust.

oh my god. random person on the internet i utterly adore you! it compiled!

your a legend. im quite bad with firmware so this is a steep learning curve for me. just a few more changes to double check then i can load it up and test it. hopefully it all works XD

thank you once more. i will post back this evening with the results of how things went.

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ok so sadly that firmware did not do so well, i mean it did and it didnt,

it loaded to the printer fine, i got it to auto home using the probe as a z stop, and it even leveled the bed. with the bed heated to 60 and nozzle at 180

but when i went to start a print i get the message "power outage, please reset" then of course the typical resume/cancel.

but this is immediately after selecting to print and the bed/nozzle begins to heat

i changed the power_loss settings and it seems to be running okay

there is another issue, im constantly having to adjust the z probe offset. any ideas why this could be? its everytime i start a print on this?