Is there a output that indicates active printing?
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Hi There,
Is there an output from duetwifi that tells me a print has started / in progress so I can run lights on the machine to indicate this, and also run a hour meter.We run printers in an industrial environment, so I would like people to know that a printer could be starting so they don't mess with it.
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@nz_andy said in Is there a output that indicates active printing?:
Hi There,
Is there an output from duetwifi that tells me a print has started / in progress so I can run lights on the machine to indicate this, and also run a hour meter.We run printers in an industrial environment, so I would like people to know that a printer could be starting so they don't mess with it.
Don't know if this would do what you want but it might.
All of the slicers I have used have a section to enter custom gcode to execute on the start of a print and the end of a print, although there is often a few lines of code the will be executed before and after the code you get to enter.
I simply enter M98 Pprint_begin.g for the starting code and M98 Pprint_end.g for the ending code.
print_begin.g and print_end.g are gcode files that reside on the Duet. I can enter whatever code I need into these files.
One thing that happens in print_begin.g is the turning on of the LED light strips that illuminate the object being printed. They are turned off in print_end.g
Frederick
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You can use start.g and stop.g to turn on/off specific pins on the board (configuring the pin as a GPIO using M950 and turning it on/off using M42) and wire a led or even an SSR to that pin to control something external. You can use any of the unused pins like endstops or unused pins in the expansion header.
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You can build one of those. All design files are open sourced.
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/10720/duet3d-monitor-adding-a-big-status-light-to-your-printer/1
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Thanks for the help, much appreciated, some good options there.
