Ok I'll say it again using different words. When I set Y_HOME_DIR one way it goes in the wrong direction, plus my z axis moves a little. When I set Y_HOME_DIR the other way and click on home it won't move at all and the Z axis moves a little! Why does Z move? My Melzi trash?by virgodave61 - General
I allready did that all are open and each triggers properly. This isn't an endstop issue! Its moving in the wrong direction to reach the endstop. If I hit Y home the Z axis moves a little. Plus I can't move the bed all the way forward. Changeing between Y min and Y max doesn't fix it. The other axis's work properly now.by virgodave61 - General
Dust Ok I followed the directions and have all axis's moving in the right direction, but when I tried to home the Y axis the bed would move in the wrong direction, even though it moved in the right direction when I moved it in the interface. My homes are all min's so I changed Y to max. and now when I click home nothing happens and when I try to move my bed forward it only goes half way and stopby virgodave61 - General
Wow perfect thanks Dustby virgodave61 - General
All main windows can be resized. I understand this I need to be able to see the message window, its to small/long and thin.by virgodave61 - General
I went and downloaded a new version of pronterface and for some reason that one seams to work although I don't like it. Its version Printrun 2015.03.10. When it opens up on the far left the window for messages and entering gcode is really long and narrow can it be resized?by virgodave61 - General
I've had the same pronterface for years and it always worked, its Python and it should execute the same always, ie it always worked and still should unless Python is messed up somehow, do to the upgrade, in my mind anyway. Maybe my thoughts are defective?by virgodave61 - General
Thanks Dust I thought I did that but perhaps neglected to save my change. But anyway it uploaded without errors, so I tried to connect with pronterface and it connected, but the part on the screen that you can use to move the steppers was missing, I'm using Ubuntu and did an upgrade since I last used the printer, also the LED on the Melzi isn't doing anything, so I used M106 to turn my fan on andby virgodave61 - General
Please Dust I don't understand the board is set to Sanguino!by virgodave61 - General
error! pins_RAMPS.h:48: error: #error "Oops! Make sure you have 'Arduino Mega' selected from the 'Tools -> Boards' menu." #error "Oops! Make sure you have 'Arduino Mega' selected from the 'Tools -> Boards' menu." ^ exit status 1 #error "Oops! Make sure you have 'Arduino Mega' selected from the 'Tools -> Boards' menu." Sanguino was selected. Why? Daveby virgodave61 - General
Wow thanks Dust! Daveby virgodave61 - General
Dust I hope your still around or I'm screwed on this forum. I measured my thermistors at approx 25C the extruder was 100k and the bed was 10K and my pullup resistor is 4.7K. When I look at the configuration file it says. #define TEMP_SENSOR_0 1 #define TEMP_SENSOR_1 0 #define TEMP_SENSOR_2 0 #define TEMP_SENSOR_3 0 #define TEMP_SENSOR_BED 0 I believe the hotend would be set to 1 and the bed toby virgodave61 - General
How do I do that if there isn't a Gcode command for it? I can read the old firmware, load it into Ardrino? If I can do that why can't I just write it to the new one? Thanks Dustby virgodave61 - General
The only way I can figure to do this is with the M501 command as not even RepRap knows what thermistor I have since they used so many different ones, but when I do it, it doesn't tell me what they are set to all it gives me is: SENDING:M501 echotored settings retreived: echoteps per unit: echo: M92 X91.43 Y91.43 Z4000.00 E955.00 echo:Maximum feedrates (mm/s): echo: M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z3.40 Eby virgodave61 - General
Thanks again Dust! Ok, now I have the new Arduino going. I loaded the new Marlin Arduino file, but when I look at the configuration file I see alot of stuff I'm not sure about, like my thermistor value, should I just upload it the way it is? My printer is a rerap pro Mendal with single extruder. Daveby virgodave61 - General
I don't understand I completely uninstalled the old one so do I need to have both installed to do this? Daveby virgodave61 - General
Wow this really sucks, I uninstalled Arduino then installed 1.6.11, but when I try to run it a splash screen pops up for a minute saying its initializing devices then goes away and nothing more happens. I searched the internet on this problem and found some real techie crap about json files and stuff I have no clue about. I also downloaded Marlin from the link you provided and unzipped it and havby virgodave61 - General
Great, I will try to get all this done after work tonight and see what happens. Daveby virgodave61 - General
I downloaded the firmware from: github.com/reprappro/Marlin/tree/master What is the correct site to get it from? What about Repetier firmware? Daveby virgodave61 - General
Thanks again Dust II will get a new IDE and a different firmware and try that. I don't remember where I got it. Daveby virgodave61 - General
I tried uploading the Melzi test program found here: http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRapPro_Mendel_maintenance And the upload worked and the LED started flashing. Any ideas whats going on? Daveby virgodave61 - General
I tried uploading the firmware and have the error: Arduino: 1.6.8 (Windows 7), Board: "Sanguino, ATmega1284 or ATmega1284P (16 MHz)" Marlin:590: error: declaration of C function 'bool code_seen(char)' conflicts with bool code_seen(char code) ^ Marlin:585: error: previous declaration 'bool code_seen(char*)' here bool code_seen(char code_string[]) //Return True if tby virgodave61 - General
I tried uploading blink to the Melzi using the USB port and it said that uploading completed. So I assume the bootloader is ok. Next I will try uploading the firmware.by virgodave61 - General
I tried uploading the boot loader again with the reset jumper on and it said it was successful. Still no light on Melzi. Then tried to connect with pronterface (with the correct baud rate in file) and my computer was totally locked up. Next I guess I will try to load blink to it with USB and see what happens, when I have more waking time. Daveby virgodave61 - General
I edited the file and restarted the IDE and had the same error as before. Then I went to my tools menu and changed "ArduinoISP" to "Arduino as ISP", then tried again and it said the boot loader loaded successfully. Then I noticed the LED on the Melzi was no longer coming on, then I also noticed that I failed to set the reset jumper on the Melzi properly, before I did it. Then I had to go to workby virgodave61 - General
Thanks again Dust I'm confused on how to edit this. # See: avrisp.name=AVR ISP avrisp.communication=serial avrisp.protocol=stk500v1 avrispmkii.name=AVRISP mkII avrispmkii.communication=usb avrispmkii.protocol=stk500v2 usbtinyisp.name=USBtinyISP usbtinyisp.protocol=usbtiny usbasp.name=USBasp usbasp.communication=usb usbasp.protocol=usbasp parallel.name=Parallel Programmer parallel.protocol=by virgodave61 - General
I know this but the Ardrunio IDE is looking for usbtiny, its not my doing its the IDE what do I do? I do haver Arduino ISP selected in the tools menu.by virgodave61 - General
I checked the boarts.txt file and set fuses as above and noted the baud was set at 57600, then restarted the Arduino IDE then when I try to upload the bootloader I get an error: Arduino: 1.6.8 (Windows 7), Board: "Sanguino, ATmega1284 or ATmega1284P (16 MHz)" avrdude: Error: Could not find USBtiny device (0x2341/0x49) Error while burning bootloader. I checked my connections and everything seamby virgodave61 - General
Dah, guess I had a blonde moment, checked and noticed I had the wrong processor selected, so now I'm uploading and it seams to be hung up with error messages "not in sync" "can't communicate with device: resp-0x1e" I can't post the actual errors because its hung up and doesn't give the copy errors button. Bootloader bad? Get the uno out again?by virgodave61 - General
Just tried uploading Blink to Melzi. The Melzi LED is red not Green. Upload gives error: avrdude: ser_open() : can't open device "\\.\com5": Access is denied. Com5 is the USB it's attached to, or assigned to rather. I also searched the net and people suggest it could be a driver issue, so I tried to update the drive by pointing to the Arduino drivers folder and it said that windows says the driveby virgodave61 - General