Anycubic Chiron

Adrian

I am unable to connect my Anycubic Chiron printer to Host.

The connection appears to be made but no start signal is detected and a forced start is issued but I have no control over anything after that.

What am I doing wrong?

It works fine with my Geeetech i3 mk2 Pro B  and my Geeetech A30

Repetier

Protocol ascii and right baud rate set?

Adrian

I have Transfer Protocol set to Autodetect though I have tried Ascii and Repetier Protocol, and baud rate 115200 though I have also tried faster and slower (down to 56000).

The connect icon turns cyan to show a connection is made but nothing else happens

Repetier

Color changes based on the fact that windows connected the port. This does not necessary mean that there is communication. Some boards need special state of DTR/RTS pin to send data. You can try with Repetier-Server to connect. There you can already set how these flags are set. Once it connects you can then use the repetier-server connector in host to connect to repetier-server and print over this.

Adrian

I will give that a try, thank you

Adrian

That worked, thank you :-D

Repetier

For interest, what DTR/RTS handling did you set in server, so it works?

tunc3d

Adrian said:

That worked, thank you :-D

Hi Adrian, is your Chiron still working with the Repertier software reliably?

I want to give it a try as well, Chiron to my understanding has some serial connectivity issues as I also read some people fail with Repetier all together and Octoprint too.

How has been your experience? 

Hope all is well btw  

Stevd7127

@tunc3d

I was also having issues connecting my Chiron to Repetier, Finally got it working and it works really well. 

I have mine set as follows

Baud Rate 250000
RTs High
DTS Low
Input Buffer 127

I found that the main issue for me was the correct firmware selected.

I have since flashed to Marlin but originally i was trying both repetier firmware and RepRap...