Not completely finished but I figured I would post my setup, so far. I just built the enclosure and it still needs some work with lights and some other modifications, I would like to do. Also I need to modify the case I have made, to better fit the makergear, the top is a very tight fit and so I would like to give the duet a little more breathing room and also for the fan. I printed up a modified case for the 7I panel added mount for vesa100x100 and found an awesome cable on amazon that had four wires to lengthen the cable to the display. Im amazed how quiet it runs now.

This is my first post here and I have been reading a lot. I have had some minor issues with my Makergear M2 and I decided to upgrade from the Rambo 1.4 board to a Duet 3 mini wifi board with BL touch, along with the 7inch screen.

I'm trying to find all the information that I will need to make the conversion and one thing that has has me trying to figure out is if I need to change my z-endstop or is it OK as is and or does the BL Touch become the endstop.

I have had my printer since 2016 and this will be my 1st experience at modifying a 3d printer.

Any help much appreciated, thanks

@dc42 Dam this typing crap, lol..

Thank you,

I was going to say I copied exactly what was in this setup guide, and I was going to paste it exactly what I had which was

M575 P1 S1 B57600

But, I went to check my config file and I looked and still I thought it looked OK. Then it dawned on me that I typed

M575 P1 S1 B576600

I blame it on big fingers small phone and working on this after working all day.

Now, I have to work at getting the BL touch working, but I will do that after I get a good night sleep.

Thank you, again this forum has been a great experience so far.

@oliof Thank you. Yeah for some reason I have

G31 X0 Y-21 Z0

I have not clicked on the links in your last post, but I believe G31 to be the offset of the z-probe.

When I first installed the Duet on my Makergear M2 I had to print a mount for the Probe and I did have the offset on the Y axis. My new print I have it on the X axis. Now, I understand, thank you very much.

@oliof said in Define area for Mesh Compension Question:

@Theboz1419 it does apply the probe offset to the position

Where is this probe offset? how to change it. It only applies to Y and not X or Z

For some reason when I put

Y20:220

It will start at Y39 and when it will continue to Y239.

So it's offsets

How do I fix this issue

So, I changed Home so that it reports the it's X0 Y0, when I home.

I added

M557 X0:170 Y20:220 to the Config.g file

But it still will go to
Y39 and start the probing, it won't start at Y20.

When it ask for my bed area, I put the following

X=0
X=170
Y=10
Y=230
X spacing= 10
Y spacing= 10

For some reason it will not start at Y10, it will go to Y28 and start probing.

When I home, it will show Y-2.0, so I know I have to fix that. Should it not still start probing at Y=8.

Thank you, this looks promising

@chrishamm Yeah, you don't want the Comcast combo units. The good thing is you can turn off the router and use your own, and so I bought a TP-Link router and have it up and running. So it should be easier to do.

Thanks

@chrishamm thanks for the reply.

What website has a good how-to setup a VPN. Since, using Comcast Modem/Router combination, it's been hell trying to get off network to work. I used to use NoIP for my BBQ controller, but I can't figure out how to connect to the controller off network with Comcast, even after port forwarding.

I have been thinking of turning off the router on the modem and just going back to a dedicated router. This might be the time for that.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to set up my printer. I have been using Octoprint on my old Rambo makergear for years and I really like all the different plug-ins and the ability to use Octoeverywhere to view and to control my printer while I'm not home.

But, Since I have installed the Duet 3 mini wifi, I really like the DWC.

Would doing SBC better or would I have to connect Octoprint via USB cable, so that I'm able to view and control my printer while I'm at work.

Is there a good way to monitor and control the printer via SBC while off home network?

If I can just get the basic control and video while I'm away from home, then I'll be happy to keep using the DWC.

Thanks

@Phaedrux I'm at work, but the one error I recieved was

"Error 2 accessing SD card"

All the other errors were not able to locate folders on the SD card or saying the card is full. Then you can't access the SD card until you power cycle.

I'm just about done trying to figure this out. It's had issues with Wifi, even after updating the wifi module, it still goes into idle mode and does not connect after everytime you need to reboot the Duet board, and I need to press the button on the display numerous times to finally get the wifi to start.

Now, it's the SD card I don't think it's reading the sd card correctly. I wanted to do a print today and every time I tried to save the Simplify3d gcode file of the project I wanted to print, would make the SD card reader stop working and it would not save. I took the sd card out and put in my laptop and saved the file to the correct file for gcode and restarted the printer and I was able to view and start the file, But....

Before printing, I set my z height(using a piece of paper) and then did a Mesh, no issues that I could see. After, I see the mesh, below the graph. This didn't happen prior to the SD card issue, and nothing was moved after.

When I try to print, the printer doesn't even print correctly, it does half the outline and then starts the infill. I rechecked my Simplify3d code and it looks just fine. Also, the nozzle keeps going to the wrong height. It's just one thing after another, and I'm done with it.

I bought another card, regardless if this card can be fixed. I'm done with it for the most part.