kliment/Printrun — Issue #68: Message from firmware to host
Author: bkubicek
Created: 2011-10-16 08:05:43+00:00
State: open

Hi!
From what I understand, it would be awesome if the firmware could send a message to the host, that is just displayed, e.g. "dude, you are doomed".

In printcore.py line 90 you have
>if(line.startswith('DEBUG_')):
> continue
However an additional safe ignore of lines starting with "echo:" would be nice.
>if(line.startswith('DEBUG_') ||line.startswith('echo:')):

The "echo:" is done at least in the
https://github.com/makerbot/ReplicatorG/blob/master/src/replicatorg/drivers/reprap/RepRap5DDriver.java line 702
and it would be cool to have a host-software independent mechanism for displaying firmware infos..

We needed it because if some machine settings are read from the eeprom (acceleration, speed, whatever), we wanted to output it to the host software, so the user sees that a lot of stuff is read from eeprom.

Maybe there is a better way even.