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Support for RepRapDiscount Smart Controller

briankbbriankb
in Display & Keyboard
I have a Prusa i3 clone that uses a MKS Base v1.3 board and what appears to be a RepRap Smart Controller LCD display with SD Card and rotary controller.


I tried using v.91 Repetier firmware and a few of the LCD options but could not get anything to work.

Is it possible to use this LCD/SD board with Repetier v.91 or v.92?

Comments

  • RepetierRepetier
    They claim to be RAMPS 1.4 compatible and using the lcd pinout so in this case you should only need to set FEATURE_CONTROLLER 2 to make it working. I do not have the hardware so I can only say from what they claim.
  • briankbbriankb
    Thanks. FEATURE_CONTROLLER 2 is set and I went back through the v.91 config tool.

    It was compiling yesterday when I left out the Display settings but now when I try to compile I get errors.

    the first error is 

    ui.cpp: In member function 'void UIDisplay::adjustMenuPos()':
    ui.cpp:2016: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'type name' with no type [-fpermissive]
         uint8_t mtype = HAL::readFlashByte((const prog_char*)&(men->menuType));

    I noticed something in the Repetier file about uncommenting the LiquidCrystal.h and I did, it didn't seem to help the error.
  • briankbbriankb
    brief recap: compiled v.92 after config tool wizard with latest version of Arduino IDE. When I have (from wizard) No Display set in the User Interface section the resulting and downloaded code will compile and upload to the MKS v1.3 board and the axis and heaters/temp work as expect, just without LCD display. 

    When I set the Display to SmartController from RepRap Discount the compiler just throws up the error.
  • briankbbriankb
    edited August 2015
    Not sure what happened but after trying again, I do know one thing I changed on the Wizard was to disable the "animate menu switches? ran through v.92 config tool again with new zip file. It compiled, uploaded, and the display is working! 

    :-D
  • RepetierRepetier
    0.91 can not be compiled with latest Arduino IDE.

    Animate menu can be 0 or 1 and it will compile. IN 0.92 the line you mention does not exist in this form and is on a different line, so I assume it is from 0.91 tests.
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