Duet3 MB6HC, Neopixel changing colors as the hotend temp changes

Quadcells

HI, So I am new to the Duet3 MB6HC and RRF3.3, coming from Duet2 wifi RRF2.x.
I would like to use the RGBW NeoPixel strip as a visual to the changing hot end temp and maybe the printer condition as "Idle" "Print" "Pause" ect. Is this posiable?
Do I need some kind of loop statements?
Could you point me to some documentation on how to do this.
Always learning something new.
Thanks in advance

Phaedrux

Have you been introduced to conditional gcode yet?

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/GCode_Meta_Commands

Quadcells

@phaedrux said in Duet3 MB6HC, Neopixel changing colors as the hotend temp changes:

Have you been introduced to conditional gcode yet?

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/GCode_Meta_Commands

Thank you.
Reading now.

Stephen6309

@quadcells Here what I use to monitor the hotend and bed temp on a Adafruit #1426:

; dameon.g
; Adafruit #1426 8 led neopixel
while true
 G4 P500 ; 500ms delay
 if heat.heaters[1].current > 40 ; temp
  M150 R255 P10 S4 F1 ; set second 4 red, and done
 elif heat.heaters[1].current <= 40
  M150 U255 P10 S4 F1 ; set second 4 green and done
 if heat.heaters[0].current > 40 ; temp
  M150 R255 P10 S4 F0 ; set first 4 red
 elif heat.heaters[0].current <= 40
  M150 U255 P10 S4 F0 ; set first 4 green

Quadcells

@stephen6309 thank you for the example.

Quadcells

@stephen6309 said in Duet3 MB6HC, Neopixel changing colors as the hotend temp changes:

@quadcells Here what I use to monitor the hotend and bed temp on a Adafruit #1426:

; dameon.g
; Adafruit #1426 8 led neopixel
while true
 G4 P500 ; 500ms delay
 if heat.heaters[1].current > 40 ; temp
  M150 R255 P10 S4 F1 ; set second 4 red, and done
 elif heat.heaters[1].current <= 40
  M150 U255 P10 S4 F1 ; set second 4 green and done
 if heat.heaters[0].current > 40 ; temp
  M150 R255 P10 S4 F0 ; set first 4 red
 elif heat.heaters[0].current <= 40
  M150 U255 P10 S4 F0 ; set first 4 green

Hi, is the example you shown, is that a macro that is named "dameon.g" and do you need to call it in the config.g or is it automatically called up by the firmware as stated here: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Macros

"daemon.g
From RRF3.1.0 and later the file /sys/daemon.g can be used to execute regular tasks. The firmware looks for the file, if the file exists it executes it and once the end of file is reached it waits. If the file is not found it waits and then looks for it again. In RRF 3.3 The wait time was increased form 1 second to 10 seconds. If you want a shorter update time then put a while loop inside the deamon.g with G4 S1 in it for 1 second repeats."

oliof

@quadcells daemon.g is automatically called every 10 seconds when it exists.

Quadcells

@oliof thank you. can you have more than one like this "dameon.g & dameon1.g"

oliof

@quadcells no, but you can call other macros from daemon.g

Quadcells

@oliof thanks, that will work.