Repetier Mac Troubleshooting…
I’ve used it for MONTHS. Due to a set of odd issues, I opted to reinstall. Now the new installation is missing the highest baudrates (250kbaud used to work fine, now it’s not on the list), and it won’t actually connect to the printer.
Arduino still flashes firmware successfully, and Cura will connect to the printer roughly once per session. (If you close and reopen Cura, it won’t connect unless you reboot the Mac)
ETA: The display on the Rumba blinks on attempted connection, then says ‘Rumba Ready’, on the Mac, Repetier says ‘opening connection’ then ‘5 commands waiting’…those 5 commands never complete, making me think it’s a baudrate, parity, stop bits kind of thing.
Thoughts? Hints? Suggestions? (“Buy a PC” will be ignored, they f’up too)
Install Linux? (You kinda asked for this)
All the problems with USB printing is why we pretty much selected not to officially support USB printing on the UM2 and just got for SD only printing.
No, I didn’t, it was to deflect the anti-mac hate.
It’s reached the point where I should just bite the bullet and replace the LCD/SD display (SD functionality was lost when Rumba #1 let out it’s magic smoke) or make the RPi a permanent part of the printer. I just liked the flexibility Repetier gave me. For really important prints it was easy to get it to spit out part of the first layer, M666 to adjust, and kick it off.
Yeah why not octoprint on your pi. You could control remotely and/or get a little HDMI display local.
I’m using that now…I’ve just saved a print or two with repetier and a text editor…you can’t really jog the nozzle down to find the Z-height on Octoprint
And while ‘solving the problem by avoiding it’ is a perfectly acceptable solution in a lot of cases…this worked fine, for months, I’d kind of like to get it back.
Are you resetting it when you connect? Repetier has a connection that sometimes does that. Also, try flipping the PingPong communcations setting.
Blegh. Brought the office laptop home (Win 7), Repetier is several versions newer, so’s slicer. Installed and connected first time. The printer is quiet, extruding well, and, well, Macs must be second class citizens where 3d printers are concerned.