Homing Inconsistent Duet 3

projectR3D

Im having some weird issues with the Duet 3 where homing each axis and home all will work fine on one unit while others it will work 95% of the time if you home each axis individually and fail most of the time if you hit home all. It seems that the only differences is that some units are running DSF versions 1.1.0.5 on the one that is working fine while the others are running 1.2.3.0 and 1.2.4.0 and the one that is working fine has a 3B+ while the others have 3B Pis. All are running the same config and homing files. Also when it fails sometimes the Web interface will just hang, sometimes it homes the first axis but the web interface never acknowledges it triggers and will get stuck as "Busy" and the unit will need to be restarted.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, I feel like Im missing something extremely simple

G21						;Work in millimetres
G90						;Send absolute coordinates...
M83						;...but relative extruder moves

; Axis and motor configuration
M569 P0 S1					;Drive 0 X / Rear
M569 P1 S1					;Drive 1 Y / Front
M569 P2 S1					;Drive 2 Z Front Left
M569 P3 S1					;Drive 3 Z Rear Left
M569 P4 S1					;Drive 4 Z Right
M569 P5 S1					;Drive 5 Extruder
M667 S1						;corexy mode

M584 X0 Y1 Z2:3:4 E5			; Map X to drive 0 Y to drive 1, Z to drives 2, 3, 4, and E to drive 5
;Leadscrew locations
M671 X-38:-38:340  Y62.5:247.5:139 S7.5		;X -38, -38, 340

M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1				;set 16x microstepping for axes with interpolation
M906 X1400 Y1400 Z1200 E1500 I60			;Set motor currents (mA)
M201 X2000 Y2000 Z100 E1500			;Accelerations (mm/s^2)
M203 X24000 Y24000 Z900 E3600			;Maximum speeds (mm/min) 
M566 X1000 Y1000 Z100 E1500			;Maximum jerk speeds mm/minute E60 Z60
M208 X300 Y300 Z400				;set axis maxima and high homing switch positions
M208 X0 Y0 Z0 S1				;set axis minima and low homing switch positions
;M92 X200 Y200 Z1600 E819.5			;steps/mm
M92 X200 Y200 Z800 E830			;steps/mm 0.9 z


; End Stops
M574 X1 S0 P"io3.in"				
M574 Y2 S0 P"io1.in"				

; Thermistors
M308 S0 P"temp0" Y"thermistor" A"bed_heat" T100000 B4240 H0 L0 		;Bed thermistor

M308 S1 P"temp1" Y"thermistor" A"e0_heat" T100000 B4725 C7.06e-8 H0 L0	


;Define Heaters
M950 H0 C"out0" T0				
M950 H1 C"out1" T1				

M307 H0 A90.0 C700.0 D10.0 S1.00 B1 		
M307 H1 A548.8 C298.6 D4.6 S1.00 B0 		

M570 S360					
M143 S285								

; Fans
M950 F0 C"out4"					;Hotend fan on "out4" connector
M106 P0 S255 H1 T50 				;enable thermostatic mode for hotend fan
M950 F1 C"out5"					;Layer fan on "out5" connector
M106 P1 S0 					;Layer Fan
M950 F2 C"out6"					;Layer fan on "out6" connector
M106 P2 S0 					;Layer Fan

; Tool definitions
M563 P0 D0 H1 F1:2                        	;Define tool 0
G10 P0 S0 R0                        		

;BLTouch
;M558 P9 C"io7.in" H5 R1 F50 T6000 A5 S0.02 B1	
;M950 S0 C"!io7.out"				
M950 S0 C"io7.out" 
M558 P9 C"io7.in" H10 F120 T3600 
G31 X-10 Y66 Z3.1 P25 ; 				


M557 X66:250 Y66:250 S92

M501

T0						;select first hot end```

Home All

G91                       ; relative mode
G1 Z5 H2 F400			  ; Move down 5mm in Z 
G1 H1 X-320 Y320 F1200   ; course home X or Y 
G1 H1 X-320               ; course home X	   
G1 H1 Y320               ; course home Y      
G1 X5 Y-5 F1200             ; move away from the endstops
G1 H1 X-10                ; fine home X        
G1 H1 Y10                ; fine home Y        



G90                       ; back to absolute mode

G91
G1 Z5 F200 H2             
G90
G1 X150 Y150 F6000 
G30

Home X

G91
G1 Z5 F200 H2   	
G1 X-320 F3000 H1 	
G1 X5 F600
G1 X-10 H1 			
G1 Z-5 F200 H2 		
G90

Home Y

G91
G1 Z5 F200 H2		
G1 Y320 F3000 H1	
G1 Y-5 F600
G1 Y10 H1			
G1 Z-5 F200 H2		
G90

Home Z

G91
G1 Z5 F800 H2			
G90
G1 X150 Y150 F2400
G30
G1 Z2 F200

Danal

The config tool generates homeall like that. Nothing wrong with it, but... I'd consider changing homeall to something like:

M98 P"/sys/homex.g"
M98 P"/sys/homey.g"

etc, etc.

Danal

Also, I'd apt-get everything to the latest. Be sure you are on the "unstable" channel:

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Getting_Started_With_Duet_3#Section_Software_Installation

projectR3D

@Danal thanks for the suggestions, the issue with apt-get everything is g32 read outs aren't reported after the system updates to 1.2.4.0. also we are running duetpi which I believe the documentation states that process is unneeded.

A Former User

@projectR3D said in Homing Inconsistent Duet 3:

we are running duetpi which I believe the documentation states that process is unneeded.

would depend on the age of the image; at least the early ones only tracked the stable repo even before the 3.0 release.

projectR3D

@bearer all of the images have been between the end of January until now.

The newest images have been the ones with the most issues.

Danal

Understood on the G32. I have lost those as well... living without for now.

Anyway, I would give a try to the homeall calling all the other files.

A Former User

@projectR3D said in Homing Inconsistent Duet 3:

@bearer all of the images have been between the end of January until now.
The newest images have been the ones with the most issues.

tbh I don't know when/if they changed it, but you can check the files in /etc/apt/ to see if you have stable + unstable or just the one.

pi@duet3:~ $ grep duet3d -r /etc/apt
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/duet3d.list:#deb https://pkg.duet3d.com/ stable armv7
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/duet3d-unstable.list:deb https://pkg.duet3d.com/ unstable armv7
Binary file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/duet3d.gpg matches
pi@duet3:~ $

projectR3D

@Danal I will give it a try, thank you

projectR3D

@bearer ill Take a look thanks!

tobias_munich

have a similar issue.
reported here

@tobias_munich said in RepRapFirmware 3.01-RC3 released:

homeall.g issues:

some times my homeall.g is not working correctly. its straight forward (see below).
it does the 1st line (homex.g) correctly and sometimes it goes directly to the last line homez.g without executing the 2nd line (homey.g)

no problem if i run each script separately .
M98 P"homex.g"
M98 P"homey.g"
M98 P"homez.g"

tobias_munich

Update:
I played around and changed the order of homing x and y in my homall.g
it was ok for 2 days. But today in the morning I had the problem again.
would say in 95% of the cases its ok and randomly it fails.

homall.g definitely has a problem.this macro looses lines to execute.

next step; I will setup a separat macro with the same content. lets see what's happend
surprise, surprise.

dc42

I think this needs attention from @chrishamm because as far as i can see, only users running DSF+RPi are experiencing this problem. But here is a wild guess: what happens if you put another command between each pair of M98 calls, for example M400?

T3P3Tony

another thing to look at is the DSF log when this happens, it may shed some light.

if you do

sudo journalctl -u duetcontrolserver -f

In a console on the Pi you will see the latest log entries for duet control server. As a macro is called and expanded each command will show in the logs. It will be helpful to see if there is a difference between when a macro works and it does not.

spllg

@projectR3D said in Homing Inconsistent Duet 3:

M201

i had a similar issue. decreasing x and y acceleration (M201) helped.

Garfield

I run a Pi 4, when I've encountered this and when looking for anything useful in the journals the cupboard is bare, the control server is basically disconnecting from the duet it seems, it doesn't see the problem and logs no error. My theory is that it sees no response from the Duet and remains 'busy' which locks out any other commands, it never times out but it sees no error since it hasn't actually crashed.

The only way to recover is to either reboot or use sudo systemctl restart duetcontrolserver in a terminal window, then the system will respond again, like the OP most of the times I have seen this is during homing operations which aren't particularly complex in communication terms. This works not because the control server has failed but because the item holding / excluding other actions is forcibly removed from the queue.

This behaviour is random and unpredictable and I've yet to find a trigger, we could do with a way to make the control server reporting a little more verbose - i.e to log all commands sent, responses received - to log the conversation.

T3P3Tony

@Garfield ok, yes if DCS hangs then it does not log. This is a different issue to one we had much earlier on i think. It would be worth trying what @dc42 suggested and putting a M400 between macro calls to see if that solves the issue.

How deep are your macros nested, like homeall->homez->deployprobe->(somecustommacro)->anothercustommacro...?

Garfield

I have no macro nesting at all currently my homing files are all separate with no M98 calls, I don't use deployprobe (don't see such a macro anyway or knowingly call it).

I'm not sure the DCS is hanging - p[retty sure that when I ran sudo systemctl status duetcontrolserver it comes back as 'running' but next time it does this I shall confirm exactly what status returns.

I shall also try the M400 (once I've seen the error again - problem is that I can't reproduce it at will).

tobias_munich

@dc42 (M400) thats a good point. will test it.
and good to know, that you have it on your list, many thanks.

but again. it's not a major issue. the homing scripts are working independently very well

Luke'sLaboratory

I'm a Duet 3 user, with SBC and single 3HC, 3.01 RC3, DSF 1.2.4

My homing is now consistently bugged when using the homeall.g command, regardless of whether I call individual macros or not.

It happens on my X-axis, and behaves like the X Limit Switch is pressed, immediately stopping when X is homed.

I have verified using the machine-specific diagnostics that the trigger is not being pressed, and I've confirmed that it does register correctly when I use my homex.g command and I can see it press, as well as manually pressing it.

I've tried M400 as well as changing homeall.g to incorporate the gcode from homeX, same result, it behaves like the button is always pressed but then processes homeY+homeZ appropriately.

Something weird is afoot here!