Conditional Gcode: Perform three PIDs Automatically

OwenD

Haven't tried the file, but you have a syntax error in both examples.
Missing a period between heaters[1] & state

M409 K"heat.heaters[1]state"

should be

M409 K"heat.heaters[1].state"

and

while heat.heaters[1]state = tuning				; wait for PID tuning to finish
  G4 S1			; delay ten seconds

should be

while heat.heaters[1].state = tuning				; wait for PID tuning to finish
  G4 S1			; delay ten seconds

also S1 would only be one second

mwolter

@OwenD
Thanks for the help! Found the same solution and was going to update the post.

Odd that it works with the M409 command but not in a macro. @dc42, might be good to change M409 so it needs a period after the array and doesn't cause confusion.

mwolter

It actually should be

while heat.heaters[1].state = "tuning"		; wait for PID tuning to finish
  G4 S10					; delay ten seconds

Quotes around tuning.

jay_s_uk

@mwolter
Could you post the final working version?

OwenD

I'm not sure it can work as it's shown because PID auto-tune is a blocking routine.
"Tuning is performed asynchronously."

i.e. The code won't run until the heater is no longer tuning, so it's redundant.

deckingman

@OwenD Another little problem you might experience with repeat PID tuning, is that IIRC at the end of tuning the heater doesn't cool right down to ambient. So the first tuning might commence from a low ambient but subsequent repeats might start at a higher temperature, which would likely give different results to the first.

dc42

@mwolter said in Conditional While Loop Cannot Compare String Value:

@OwenD
Thanks for the help! Found the same solution and was going to update the post.

Odd that it works with the M409 command but not in a macro. @dc42, might be good to change M409 so it needs a period after the array and doesn't cause confusion.

Thanks, the period should have been mandatory in the M409 key too. I've fixed it ready for 3.01-RC4.

dc42

@OwenD said in Conditional While Loop Cannot Compare String Value:

I'm not sure it can work as it's shown because PID auto-tune is a blocking routine.
"Tuning is performed asynchronously."

i.e. The code won't run until the heater is no longer tuning, so it's redundant.

By "asynchronously" I meant in a non-blocking manner.

mwolter

@OwenD It actually appears to be working well even though PID autotune might be a blocking routine.

Here are the console logs:

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@jay_s_uk Below are the macros used to perform the autotune. Formatting might not look right due to how this site handles the spaces and tabs. When pasted into DWC it is formatted properly. If you copy these macros, be sure to change the M98's to correct location of the sub macros.

I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do this but I think it works! These macros turn on the part fan and raise the hotend temp to 98c (which overshoots to approx 105c), waits for it cool to under 100c, starts the PID tune and waits for completion, sends the results to the console, waits for the hotend to drop below 100c, then runs two additional autotunes and sends the results to the console.

Several while loops were necessary and I found the tuning process to be much more reliable if there was only one while loop per macro. This might have something to do with how the "increment" variable is incremented.

Main PID Autotune Macro
0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/PID Tune T0

; Performs three PID tuning iterations and outputs results to the console.
; Manually verify the three iterations are similar and average the results. 
;
; All sub macros should be in the following folder
; 0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/
; 
; Turn on cooling fan and hotend heater
M106 S60			; part cooling fan to 20%
T0					; Select T0
G10 P0 S100 R0		; Hotend temp 100
;
; Heat hotend to 98c
M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - Temp Heat to 98c"
;
; Cool hotend to 100c
M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - Temp Cool to 100c"
;
while true
  ; perform three iterations then stop
  if iterations = 3
    G4 S1				; delay one second
    echo "----------------------------------------"
    echo "PID Tuning of H0 is Complete"
    echo "----------------------------------------"
    abort				; finished PID Tuning
  ;
  echo "----------------------------------------"
  echo "             PID Tune " ^ iterations + 1
  echo "----------------------------------------"
  ;
  G4 S1				; delay one second
  ;
  ; PID tune and print values to console
  M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - PID"
  ;
  ; Cool hotend to 100c before performing iterations 0 and 1
  if iterations != 2
    M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - Temp Cool to 100c"
  continue			; Jump back to the while true and continue running

Sub Macros

0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - PID

; Perform autotune, wait for completion then return values to console
;
M303 H1 P1 S230 	; perform first pid tune
;
while heat.heaters[1].state = "tuning"		; wait for PID tuning to finish
  G4 S10									; delay ten seconds
  ;echo "Delay 10s Iteration "  ^ iterations + 1
  continue
;
M307 H1 			; print PID values to the console
;
;echo "PID tuning complete"

0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - Temp Cool to 100c

; Wait for hotend temp to come down to 100 
;
echo "Waiting for hotend temp to cool to 100c"
while heat.heaters[1].current > 100 		; wait for hotend to drop to 100
  G4 S1										; delay one second
  continue									; continue running while loop
echo "Hotend temp is 100c"

0:/macros/Utilities/Calibration/3. PID Tune/T0 Sub Macros/T0 - Temp Heat to 98c

; Wait for hotend temp to reach 98c, then turn it off
;
echo "Heating hotend to 98c"
while heat.heaters[1].current < 98 		; wait for hotend to reach 98
  G4 S1									; delay one second
  continue								; continue running while loop
G10 P0 S-273.15 						; T0 off
echo "Hotend temp is 98c"
G4 S2									; delay two seconds

OwenD

@dc42 my mistake. Had my synchronous & asynchronous inverted!