Worth it to upgrade from 2.02 to current?
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The title says it all. After reading the guide I am a bit intimidated by the upgrading process. What exactly do you gain from upgrading to current firmware?
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Well you can see the main difference here: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/RepRapFirmware_3_overview
Overall RRF3 is more flexible in how pins are defined and used. It's also where future development is going so eventually there may be some features you won't get access to. Conditional Gcode is one example already.
Going from 2.02 to 3.1.1 isn't too hard really.
Even if you don't want to go with RRF3 yet you can update to 2.05.1 to at least be up to date with RRF2, which would make it easier to jump to RRF when the time comes.
https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/2.05.1/Duet2Firmware-2.05.1.zip
Download that zip file and upload it as is to the system tab in DWC. Don't extract it first, just upload it.
If you're curious to see what the config changes look like you can generate a RRF3 config set and compare to your current files.
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RIght on that helps. I will have to read about condition Gcode. Thank you for your response.
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@Phaedrux said in Worth it to upgrade from 2.02 to current?:
Well you can see the main difference here: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/RepRapFirmware_3_overview
Overall RRF3 is more flexible in how pins are defined and used. It's also where future development is going so eventually there may be some features you won't get access to. Conditional Gcode is one example already.
Going from 2.02 to 3.1.1 isn't too hard really.
Even if you don't want to go with RRF3 yet you can update to 2.05.1 to at least be up to date with RRF2, which would make it easier to jump to RRF when the time comes.
https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/2.05.1/Duet2Firmware-2.05.1.zip
Download that zip file and upload it as is to the system tab in DWC. Don't extract it first, just upload it.
If you're curious to see what the config changes look like you can generate a RRF3 config set and compare to your current files.
OK, so with bltouch being setup different. Does where it is plugged in on the board change. Or just how it is defined in the code?
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It's connected the same way, but the way it's defined in the config is different.
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Awesome I will do the upgrade tomorrow. Thanks again!
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If you do decide to go to RRF3 make sure you update to 3.0 first before going to 3.1.1.
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Sorry I am late to the party- I was on the fence too, but after going through a couple of rounds with the connfigurator, it all worked itself out.
I had a devil of time upgrading becasue I lacked the prior experience of upgraging Duet FW. i was using RRF2 for LPC and bought a used Duet2 that did not come with the SD card.
But despite the potholes on the way, I think it was worthit for me.
