okay the newest marlin builder version is on the board using p.io…I am going to tweak a few things to see if I should upload a PR. I will let the board sit after a few more things.
Heffe when you get a minute, any ideas why this works, but not in the file? I tried the same exact commands, p.io says it can’t find the commands. Or maybe why does thinkyhead want them in a file instead of in the p.io file?
Wow that is definitely interesting news! I was getting really doubtful that this is the firmware. FYI if you look at the thread I was able to upload 505 with P.IO however a really bad result was that the steppers didn’t work (whole bunch of weirdness). I assumed in the thread it was a problem with the 505 firmware, but searching through your forum showed another thread (don’t have the link handy) where I think someone else had uploaded an older firmware with p.io and had the same weird stepper motor functionality. He did not get that behavior when uploading via Arduino.
So you might want to make sure steppers work if you upload via p.io and if they don’t then you may want to try getting the Arduino upload to work before assuming the firmware is bad.
Thanks so much for looking into it. Glad I’m not going crazy, sad that this is so tricky. Especially if this truly only does happen with the LCD controller and that this wasn’t a fluke. In that case my mind goes to all sorts of weird places like hardware interrupts, or possibly something with how Archim communicates with SD card reader (even when no card is there). Hopefully you have better ideas
Well I still have not plugged in a stepper. Mail just came, I did not pack any of Sunday or Mondays orders because I want to fix this…doing what I can here.
I think it is because the command in other OSs isn’t bossac. But I don’t know more than you’ve told me.
The file is setting the variable. Did the variable name change? Is it still setting it before it gets used? I haven’t looked at any of the pio builder stuff.
Okay, I need a faster computer, compiling is taking forever. 425 works fine with the steppers. I will see if there are any obvious errors and work backwards. Cross those fingers.
Such a tiny change results in a huge huge PR. This PR is also very old at this point. He never submitted it to marlin.
Way above my pay grade.
So there are two issues, the bossa thing not working and the steppers not working. I have workarounds for both but need to figure out how to understand them to be able to submit a PR and not a work around.
This PR is huge because they have copied a whole config and then changed one line (and renamed some stuff).
We could add some code to MarlinBuilder to edit that line only in the archim builds. I would really rather get this upstream instead. You could also edit that one line and check it in on your 425 branch.
That is what I assumed but whatever config that is, is not in the platform.io boards folder in the current version of marlin. I am willing to do an updated version but am not sure where the original comes from. PS I am asking here because of the fast responses. If we can solve it on a few days that is usually what it takes to get a response.
Will do.
Good archim flash, the errors are a spell checker I need to remove.
