Current printer status

Exerqtor

I'm trying to find some meta command that can give me the printer status.

The idea is for it to be used in mesh.g. If the printer is printing/print job has been started, i want it to do one task(probe just the print area). And if it ain't a active print i want it to do another action (probe the default/full bed).

I tried

if state:status = "idle" 
 ; full bed probing macro
elif state:status = "processing" 
  ; print area bed probing macro
else
  echo "Something unforseen happened" ^ state:status ^

But that way of doing it dont work (am i formating itwrong?)

chrishamm

@Exerqtor It should be state.status, not state:status. See here for a full list of possible states.

Exerqtor

@chrishamm

Yeah sorry i meant to use "." BUT, that's not working 😶

The specific code i'm trying to run is:

; Printer is idle, new default mesh will be probed
if state.status = "idle"                                                       ; printer is idle, new default mesh will be probed
  G29 S0                                                                       ; probe the bed, save height map to heightmap.csv and enable compensation
  G29 S3 P"default_heightmap.csv"                                              ; Save the current height map to file "full_heightmap.csv"
  G29 S1 P"default_heightmap.csv"                                              ; Load height map file "full_heightmap.csv" and enable mesh bed compensation
elif state.status = "processing"                                               ; printer is processing, new adaptive mesh will be probed
  G29 S0                                                                       ; probe the bed, save height map to heightmap.csv and enable compensation
  G29 S3 P"adaptive_heightmap.csv"                                             ; Save the current height map to file "full_heightmap.csv"
  G29 S1 P"adaptive_heightmap.csv"                                             ; Load height map file "full_heightmap.csv" and enable mesh bed compensation

It looks like i've found out where i did wrong, the state changes to "busy" when i start the macro. Changed "idle" to "busy" now and it seems to behaving like inteded!