I get an endless stream of "Time Left" popups
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That looks exactly like an M117 command that is called from the Gcode you are running. Maybe a macro that is called repeatedly?
I must admit that I don't know how to make an M117 give you the time left but everything else looks exactly like an M117. -
@jens55 said in I get an endless stream of "Time Left" popups:
I must admit that I don't know how to make an M117 give you the time left
my guess was slicer outputting it for marlin/repeteir style lcd, makes sense with the layer transitions.
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Oh it makes sense but the documentation doesn't give any options for M117 other than straight text out. It doesn't even give you the option of a yes/no response from the operator which IMHO is a substantial issue/problem. So the question remains - how does it spit out times. Are there undocumented parameters that I am not aware of ? Maybe global parameters that I have not seen documented but that can be introduced ?
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Looking at the time remaining amounts and comparing them to the layer times, they do seem to match so yes, it spit it out on every layer.
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@jens55 said in I get an endless stream of "Time Left" popups:
- how does it spit out times
slicer embeds it in the g-code methinks
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Did some more digging and found that S3D does indeed offer variables that could easily insert a time remaining amount in a message. Cura has no such abilities for some reason so it never occurred to me that the slicer might do this.
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@jens55 You can search for M117 in the g-code-file to be sure.
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It does! You're all right, it's a M117, and it's because of the slicer gcode. I completely forgot about this Cura option since I'm coming from an LCD.
Thank you guys!
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@jens55 said in I get an endless stream of "Time Left" popups:
Cura has no such abilities for some reason so it never occurred to me that the slicer might do this.
You were saying?
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Nothing to see here ... move along now ... move along ....
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Technically speaking, Cura has no such abilities. It's the plugin that's doing the work and not Cura
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@jens55 Sorry bud, the post processor has been in there for a long time by default with a selection of default scripts to use.
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Ok, I will see if I can find myself a tasty crow to eat ....