Just checking to see if you received my previous post from yesterday. I’ve been trying to get this configured for several days, and am about to return the board and go back to my RAMPS board.
Does anyone have the smoothieboard working with a BL Touch? If so, does it also serve as your Z endstop? What series of commands do you issue to perform leveling. I have not been able to get it to work with the information provided, and I have not been able to find anyone who has.
I’ve given up on it as it obviously doesn’t work. Had another issue where prints would pause for no reason, and then start again. Was supposed to have been fixed in firmware, but I loaded the latest firmware, and it’s still doing it. Will be pulling this board out soon.
I’m new to Smoothieboard … but I love it.
What I have not found is which configuration parameters are mandatory and which are optional. I’m using the SB for a K40 conversion and all the stuff about heating plates and what not are not used in a Laser Cutter setup. But I have found that leaving things out will prevent SB from booting.
Also: is there a way to config SB so it will alway’s start the telnet or SFTP servers so, even if the config gone bad, you will be able to access the SB via the network to change or replace the config file without puling out the tiny SD card … and maybe some logging info about whats wrong with the config.
@Duane_Miles The Bltouch is just a switch like any other switch. It can be used as a probe, or as an endstop, or as both depending on how you setup your configuration file.
Hundreds of users use it as either.
Note it’s very common for Bltouches to be broken at reception or to have problems communicating over long wires, lots of reports of that, so sometimes it’s not a config issue.
If you get errors with your probe, debug it’s status with the M119 command, it’s possible it’s not read correctly.
@Willem_Aandewiel The general rule is : modify the configuration file only as little as you need. Don’t do anything more than is necessary. If you are deleting things you are probably going too far.
About config, you can download the source, edit the “config.default” file to include network configuration, compile smoothie, flash it to the board, and if config is absent, that “compiled” config file will be used.