m84 m18 Disable steppers when not used

I noticed that M84 M18 are supported by smoothie, but the question is whether the board could be set up in a way to automatically disable drivers when not used?
Is there a config value for this?

Regards,
Tamas

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Hey.

I don’t think that’s supported. It would be pretty trivial to add though.

I have no idea how to do that. Anyhow I have to upload a fresh build. It won’t hurt to build the master and try that out. That way I will at least build it once and start to look into the structure of the project.

If someone has an idea where to look for similar things in the firmware … I could try to add this.

Regards,
Tamas

This is really not something you want to do. On many stepper drivers if you disable the stepper you lose microstepping which means you will no longer be zeroed and would need to home before you did anything.