I am going to attempt to document all the things I find with Replicape/Kamikaze getting it installed into my Rostock Max V2 printer. This will be as I find them, and remember to write them down. They might not be in any order. But I think that documentation being written down is a start of something.
First thing is that the instructions on the wiki for Kamikaze install are not clear as they could be. For instance, it is mentioned in one spot that having all 4 lights solid blue means that it is time to power down the board and remove the SD card. But before that, it is mentioned that it will ‘power down’ but having all 4 lights on doesn’t really seem like a ‘powered down’ state to me.
Secondly, the ‘ping kamikaze.local’ command only works if you have a mDNS/SD-DNS installed, and Win10 does not have it installed by default for all applications. You need to download and install one, and the major one is (ironically) Apple based. It is called “Bonjour Print Services for Windows” even more confusingly since it works for everything and not just printers… Once that is installed, then it works as expected. It usually returns an IPV6 address, but sometimes a IPV4 address, so PuTTY kind of freaks out sometimes when connecting. Oh, and having a WiFi and wired connection also makes everything freak out–so pick one or the other. Not both. Wired is more reliable, but wireless is far more convenient if you are pulling the board in and out of places.