No Manual Control
G'Day Gang,
A good mate has given me a Geeetech i3 I am having difficulty getting any response from it. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and Repetier Host. I can connect to the printer but I can't get the manual control to work. There is no response at all. I have tried different baud rates but no joy. What else should I look at?
A good mate has given me a Geeetech i3 I am having difficulty getting any response from it. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and Repetier Host. I can connect to the printer but I can't get the manual control to work. There is no response at all. I have tried different baud rates but no joy. What else should I look at?
Comments
One thing with linux is that some baud rates like 250000 are not directly supported. So if your printer uses that it might help to select a ansi baud rate like 115200 baud in firmware instead. On Windows there is no problem with that baud rate.
On linux you could use Repetier-Server for communication which supports 250000 on linux if driver can do it and use repetier-server connector in host to talk through server with printer. This is the best solution for linux anyway since server is much more stable for printing under linux.