Firmware bundle 3.6.0 release candidate 1 available

chrishamm

On behalf of the Duet3D team I am pleased to announce the availability of version 3.6.0-rc.1. If no more major problems show up in this release, this will form the basis of the next stable version 3.6.0.
If you are still running v3.5.4 and have not tried any v3.6 beta yet, please consider an upgrade to this version.

The RepRapFimware changelog since 3.5.4 includes 50 new features and 26 bug fixes, and there are many more in DSF and DWC.

If you upgrade, please check the release notes notes first for

This task can be simplified using the ReleaseMgr plugin, too.

Users in standalone mode can upgrade by uploading the firmware bundle from here.
Users in SBC mode may need to change to the unstable package feed before upgrading all packages (e.g. via M997 S2). Please note that M997 S2 does not work on deprecated Buster-based Debian/DuetPi images. See here in case you need to upgrade.

If you encounter any problems, please open a new thread with [3.6.0-rc.1] in the title. Positive feedback is welcome here in this thread.

Notepad

@chrishamm Do we have any available documentation for the

The USB port can now be switched into PanelDue mode (support for this may not be complete)

This would solve so many issues I have with long cable runs for the PanelDue

dc42

@Notepad the current PanelDue doesn't support USB comms except for software updates, let alone USB host mode that would be needed.

How long are your PanelDue cable runs, and what cable are you using? A cable with thicker conductors may help. If not then you could consider using a RS232 or RS485 converter at each end.

Notepad

@dc42 At the moment we are making our own 4 wire (twisted pair 24AWG) runs with double wrapped ferrites on each end. Lengths 850mm and 1.4mtrs. We do have other machines planned that might need longer lengths, but these aren't specified yet
This works for us and the ferrites keep the EMI to within Class B which is great. Only downside is we have to make our own bundles which is just a chore, and we cant use the SD card slot.

I did a quick search on the forum for any posts regarding the USB port on the PanelDue having a separate mode but couldn't find anything. So i was just wondering if there was any reading material surrounding this update

dc42

@Notepad in theory we could use the PanelDue USB port to transfer the data to the Duet, but we would have to run it in device mode. This means we would have to run the Duet USB port in host mode. That's possible in theory on Duet 3 boards and we have made some steps towards making it possible, however it's proven to be problematic so we haven't yet completed that support.

rero

Want to give it a try asap for our project (at least within the next weeks).

Just one question @chrishamm reg. build of DSF with Visual Studio 2022: should this work out of box or do you have any updated build-instructions?
I just tried rc1 and it gave same errors as with other 3.6-betas before: the new SourceGenerator seems to be missing in some projects and therefore the code it should automatically create isn't available and compilation fails.

Regards,
Reiner

chrishamm

@rero You can find build instructions for DSF here: https://github.com/Duet3D/DuetSoftwareFramework/wiki/Build-Instructions

I just checked the build process and both DSF 3.5 and 3.6 build fine on my Windows and Linux setups. Unless you intend to make further changes in DSF, you don't need to build it, though. For the API bindings, it should suffice to pull in the dependencies from NuGet (DuetAPIClient). There are beta/rc packages available, too.