Couple questions before I make the purchase

droftarts

@Asdasd1234 said in Couple questions before I make the purchase:

adding those buttons in "should" be within what i can actually do lol

You just have to write a gcode file, with gcodes in it to do whatever you want, and save it to the 'macro' folder on the Duet SD card. Then the macros are available, as clickable entities (almost buttons) in the DWC and on the PanelDue. See https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Macros

Edit: yes, the firmware and Duet Web Control (DWC) are open source. See https://github.com/dc42/RepRapFirmware and https://github.com/chrishamm/DuetWebControl

Ian

Danal

Is workbee "firmware" really a release of Duet/RepRap firmware that they've certified, PLUS their web interface? Or is the actual firmware (that runs on the board) different?

jay_s_uk

@Danal

The firmware has not been changed I believe. They've just supplied different versions of the config.g file for each machine. They probably also test each version to "certify" it

The main changes to DWC can be seen here https://learn.ooznest.co.uk/Guide/How+To+Use+WorkBee+Control/22?lang=en
They've mainly updated the dashboard to allow for multiple work co-ordinate systems and quick setting of X, Y and Z offsets.
At the moment, its based on 2.0.4 I think.

Danal

Perfect, thanks.

That's more or less what I thought, just wasn't sure.

Asdasd1234

@droftarts said in Couple questions before I make the purchase:

@Asdasd1234 said in Couple questions before I make the purchase:

adding those buttons in "should" be within what i can actually do lol

You just have to write a gcode file, with gcodes in it to do whatever you want, and save it to the 'macro' folder on the Duet SD card. Then the macros are available, as clickable entities (almost buttons) in the DWC and on the PanelDue. See https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Macros

Edit: yes, the firmware and Duet Web Control (DWC) are open source. See https://github.com/dc42/RepRapFirmware and https://github.com/chrishamm/DuetWebControl

Ian

I was thinking more along adding current display of work-offset co-ords or something that might fall outside of that range. But the other version I was linked seems to already do most of what I wanted to add. I make use of the macros list on the side already for purges/filament changes on my printer which are a great feature.

jay_s_uk

@Asdasd1234

Source code for Ooznest version is here

https://github.com/lockryan/DuetWebControl/tree/workbeecontrol

Asdasd1234

Sorry I've got one last bit to question
I saw above someone mention connecting to it with a RPI, and a bit on the product page saying
"Dedicated High speed bus to a single board computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi) for the user interface and plugins"

Does this mean that the Duet 3 doesn't have the interface available from just the board like the duet 2? Do I need an RPI to run the web server? My only experience is the duet 2 wifi which was just plug and play on that front.

dc42

@Asdasd1234 said in Couple questions before I make the purchase:

Sorry I've got one last bit to question
I saw above someone mention connecting to it with a RPI, and a bit on the product page saying
"Dedicated High speed bus to a single board computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi) for the user interface and plugins"

Does this mean that the Duet 3 doesn't have the interface available from just the board like the duet 2? Do I need an RPI to run the web server? My only experience is the duet 2 wifi which was just plug and play on that front.

You can run Duet 3 either in standalone mode (like Duet 2) with its web server using the Ethernet port and local SD card, or with an attached RPi.

Asdasd1234

Ah ok, that makes more sense, thanks

dc42

..and in standalone mode, you can connect a PanelDue to it.

DaBit

It is possible to tell RRF a transformation matrix (M669), so transforming the machine coordinate system to match the workpiece could be done with some conditional G code. I think you would need variables though, and those are not supported yet.