PanelDue Image Display

MartinNYHC

I plan to use a tablet to control my printer but since I have a PanelDue lying around, I would like to convert the current printed GCODE to an image on the SBC and display it. So I'm wondering if it is possible to display an image on the PanelDue.

Thanks, Martin

dc42

In principle yes, but the current firmware does not support receiving an image. The image would need to be no bigger than about 64kb so that it could be stored in PanelDue RAM.

MartinNYHC

Thanks. Let's see...perhaps I'll swap it against a small RPI display.

Currently there are more important things to do. Just disassembled the whole printer, because I want to rebuild the frame with blind joints and next week I'll get all metal CNC parts to get rid of the printed stuff

bot

@dc42, have you seen the way Prusa encodes thumbnails for their mini printer? PrusaSlicer can generate a thumbnail and include it in the gcode, like so:

; thumbnail begin 220x124 3228
; iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAANwAAAB8CAYAAAACRt5vAAAJPElEQVR4Ae2d2ZoTVRSF60FsWiFewP
; dxi4iI2iL3voIiIorzPADP5ouFTneHLkINZ9jD2uesi32TpM5ZWbX+pFKpU3vYbDbXD+vGjRsn+5p6
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; SDAt1VfvHZ0VGnDW+ZDUHL4/nMS80sD98cnV7e+n9dvH8eB7eOto+/ACNETgvDIipRn2fzjp13sBty
; 900L689dZZoQLnmQ9J3XD94XLmltJsAdxlvXNW3oDtQNqBtYPsiwvYUIGTyodnrvePh+8PJ2GqB3D7
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; t6CT7Sg5eV9vIgAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC
; thumbnail end

That equates to about 4 KB if I'm not mistaken, at 220x124 resolution.

dc42

@bot, that would be entirely doable.

bot

Cool! The PrusaSlicer fork SuperSlicer has added the functionality to put the thumbnail on non-mini printer profiles. Perhaps a different resolution is possible, as well. We could check the PrusaSlicer/SuperSlicer source.

If another resolution is possible, what would be ideal for the paneldue? I guess we should ensure the smallest paneldues can see the thumbnails. This could be included into the "RepRapFirmware" G-Code flavour that is seemingly soon to be added to PrusaSlicer.

Perhaps DWC could grab these tumbnails, too.

MartinNYHC

Very nice. +1

dc42

Do you have a link to the specification for the image encoding?

bot

I do not think any public documentation of this exists, but here is the first most obvious reference to it that I can find in the source:

Prusa3D/PrusaSlicer/src/libslic3r/GCode.cpp#L981

	static void export_thumbnails_to_file(ThumbnailsGeneratorCallback &thumbnail_cb, const std::vector<Vec2d> &sizes, WriteToOutput output, ThrowIfCanceledCallback throw_if_canceled)
	{
	    // Write thumbnails using base64 encoding
	    if (thumbnail_cb != nullptr)
	    {
	        const size_t max_row_length = 78;
	        ThumbnailsList thumbnails;
	        thumbnail_cb(thumbnails, sizes, true, true, true, true);
	        for (const ThumbnailData& data : thumbnails)
	        {
	            if (data.is_valid())
	            {
	                size_t png_size = 0;
	                void* png_data = tdefl_write_image_to_png_file_in_memory_ex((const void*)data.pixels.data(), data.width, data.height, 4, &png_size, MZ_DEFAULT_LEVEL, 1);
	                if (png_data != nullptr)
	                {
	                    std::string encoded;
	                    encoded.resize(boost::beast::detail::base64::encoded_size(png_size));
	                    encoded.resize(boost::beast::detail::base64::encode((void*)&encoded[0], (const void*)png_data, png_size));

	                    output((boost::format("\n;\n; thumbnail begin %dx%d %d\n") % data.width % data.height % encoded.size()).str().c_str());

	                    unsigned int row_count = 0;
	                    while (encoded.size() > max_row_length)
	                    {
	                        output((boost::format("; %s\n") % encoded.substr(0, max_row_length)).str().c_str());
	                        encoded = encoded.substr(max_row_length);
	                        ++row_count;
	                    }

	                    if (encoded.size() > 0)
	                    	output((boost::format("; %s\n") % encoded).str().c_str());

	                    output("; thumbnail end\n;\n");

	                    mz_free(png_data);
	                }
	            }
	            throw_if_canceled();
	        }
	    }
	}

So the thumbnail seems to be encoded in 'base64' by the boost library. The start of the thumbnail says ; thumbnail begin followed by the pixel resolution and the encoded size. I suppose it's an encoding of a PNG file of some format.

bot

@dc42 I found this website which can directly decode the image that I posted above, which was merely an example I found on the internet from someone's publicly posted gcode.

https://base64.guru/converter/decode/image/png

Encoded PNG with added information removed:

iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAANwAAAB8CAYAAAACRt5vAAAJPElEQVR4Ae2d2ZoTVRSF60FsWiFewP
dxi4iI2iL3voIiIorzPADP5ouFTneHLkINZ9jD2uesi32TpM5ZWbX+pFKpU3vYbDbXD+vGjRsn+5p6
XqKk57DQHFU3vcbxeljbSEOcxviHY0bVTc16+xLB68FaHAM2P/7/T25vNYpe4+R6sBKobaTWXFq6te
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NpvNddTaG2extCNSgAmdfT6kCh44iUWiBK5N4MYZIXACRlodLkQKLqGzz4cocOgnTcbaeHaSwC3lAB
m8N85SIohLMUvD1Eih7Rm41H2PBt3k3wLeAnM1SGqOFNpegfPMh5Tm185SegmsmVdKc6TQ9ggcQkak
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t6CT7Sg5eV9vIgAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC

Produces this image:

Note that the background uses alpha transparency.

wilriker

Support for the thumbnail included by PrusaSlicer is planned for the version PanelDueFirmware 3.3 (i.e. after the current 3.2 is finished).

bot

@wilriker FYI the newest versions of PrusaSlicer include the ability to embed a thumbnail of an arbitrary size. No modifications necessary to get a thumbnail encoded now.

wilriker

I was looking into this for the past week and unfortunately I have to report failure to get it done. The problem is that we just have way to few RAM available on PanelDue. Maybe in future version of PanelDue with much more RAM this could be done for but for now it is technically impossible.

MartinNYHC

@wilriker Unfortunately that makes sense. Thanks for looking into it.

If we're just "together" I would like to see the current pinting speed on PanelDue.