Add Kinetica G2 board support
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@lucth Hello, I have this board and was wondering if there has been any more firmware developments on it. I would like to update the firmware past the 2.5rc1
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I support the adding of the Kinetica G2 board support. Can the Maestro profile be used to get a more current version of firmware and web interface? @royco @LucTH
Firmware Currently Available for the Kinetica G2...
Firmware Name: RepRapFirmware for Kinetica G2
Firmware Electronics: Kinetica G2 Ethernet 1.0
Firmware Version: 2.05RC1R (2019-13-03b1)
Web Interface Version: 1.21.1 -
To those that still have their kinetica board, how much would ongoing support be worth to you? It seems like panucatt did the bare minimum to get the board up (no offense to @LucTH who did a good job on that all things considered), and has since ignored the board completely.
IMO the kinetica board is a subpar choice for it's price and you'd get a well supported replacement board for less than half an hour engineering freelancer time these days (-: (and a duet 3 mini for maybe a full hour of engineering freelancer time).
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@oliof I just purchased the board and installed it on my ender 3.
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@malamaker I am very sorry to hear that. Maybe you still have a return window?
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@malamaker i'd definitely be looking at returning it. I don't see this board getting any further support. having spoken to @LucTH, he has no plans to get RRF3 working on it
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Sorry for late answer I missed the notifications
I never got the board in hand, I did the porting by just reading original code and sending modified code to @royco who validate it, @royco supposed to send me a board but unfortunatly I never got it. So the code is the one I posted on github https://github.com/panucatt
I got request to move to RRF 3.0 but doing blind coding is not really fun
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@lucth I understand. I'm a software dev myself so I sympathize. Coding blindly can lead to so much extra work in the end. Until I searched and probed this topic, nothing really show up online that this board is really a stale out of date product without support for the most important aspect of the board... the firmware. I hope @royco will take the product back if this is true that firmware support has died on this board. I going to reach out to his sales email and give him a chance to respond because he is really the one that can say what his plans are with this board.
I already have a duet 2 ethernet on my main printer and was looking for a drop in replacement for my ender 3 (my extra filler printer) that had the Duet web interface. I know the improvements that have been made with the latest firmwares which is why I care so much about upgrading the Kinetica G2. Was trying to make my life simpler by going with this board but ended up creating more work than if I just ordered and converted my ender to a Duet board.
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@malamaker if you want a drop in, look at the fly-e3 or fly-e3-pro
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I was able to return the Kinetica G2 board and I am going with a Duet 3 mini instead.
