Look at the printers screen

[unitrix0]

uuuh the screen on the printer isn't showing anything... Am I doing it wrong? I'm running a Ender 5 plus.

thanks

[j-be]

Hi, could you please go a bit more into detail? What happens when you click the button? Does it home and probe? Or is it sitting there doing nothing at all?

My first guess would be, that your firmware does not support M117.

Please try the following:

• Open "Terminal" tab in OctoPrint like below, EDIT: enter "Hello there 123", and click the "Send" button:
  
• See if "Hello there 123" appears anywhere on the screen

If not, your firmware/screen combo seems to lack support for M117, which afaik is the only way to give user feedback on the screen itself. You may use something like the M117PopUp plugin, but I see how that is cumbersome.

If it appears we have ourselves an issue. Do the "Test" buttons in the plugin's settings do anything?

If not, your points are out of reach, i.e. the points cannot be probed, because the printer cannot move there. Also, in this case you'll need to wait for 3 minutes before doing anything else (I'm currently working to fix that issue - should be fixed in
version 0.1.12.

[unitrix0]

Hey, thanks for the very quick response. I tried the M117 command, but nothing appeared. So the firmware does not seem to support that unfortunately. But I figured out that I can watch the Terminal and see the messages there.

[j-be]

Yeah, some firmwares (especially Creality it seems) don't support M117.

I recommend the M117PopUp plugin. You still need to watch OctoPrint, but imho. way better than the console.

[zimmertr]

Same problem on the Ender 6. Thanks for the PopUp Plugin recommendation though. That got me moving.

Great software!

[j-be]

@zimmertr Thanks, happy you like it 😄

I really don't get why Creality doesn't have support for M117 on their more modern machines. It may be incompetence, it may be malevolence. Those 2 are sometimes hard to distinguish...