remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
When I add a color change in Prusa Slicer I don't see the remaining time till color change on the MK4 display like I did on the Mk3. Is this not yet implemented or am I missing something? The color change itself is working, it just would be more convenient to not have to check the time "manually" from the Prusa Slicer values.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Not implemented in Buddy based printers (Mini, Mk4, XL). Why, I don't know as it's a super useful feature. There are open tickets on GitHub for it so hopefully it'll show up in a future firmware release.
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RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Ok, thanks, good to know it's already on github. Should have checked there before asking.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
What would be absolutely super (and a notch better than the MK3 time remaining) is to have the clock time it will happen. Just like it tells you when the print will end it could tell what time the insert needs to happen.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Well I typed an edit and it disappeared. Also speaking of disappearing is the time of completion. All I see now is time remaining. What happened to the display of time of completion? It would be nice if both numbers were displayed alternately.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
cool feature would be if the color change would also be displayed on the vertical bar like with the slicer...wait and see, think prusa will conjure something up soon
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
I also noticed this. It only seems to display the time of completion when it's a longer print. When it's just a few hour print it's displaying remaining time like on the MK3. (also for longer prints when there's only a few hours remaining). I'm not sure when exactly it switches to remaining time. I'd like it to always display the time of completion... or why not have the option to display both.
Well I typed an edit and it disappeared. Also speaking of disappearing is the time of completion. All I see now is time remaining. What happened to the display of time of completion? It would be nice if both numbers were displayed alternately.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Another reason as to why this time to change number is important. I forgot to set the insert point in a new gcode and so it ran for an hour and finished without the nuts in it. Had there been the alert I would have noticed at the very beginning that there was no insert point in the code.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
I am interested in seeing this feature added back to the firmware.
It's on the MK3 printers, so the code to implement it already exists...probably commented out?
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Except the code base for the 2 boards is completely different. So its not just commented out.
I am interested in seeing this feature added back to the firmware.
It's on the MK3 printers, so the code to implement it already exists...probably commented out?
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Add to the color change not displaying, is that the "time to a pause" doesn't display either. I have long prints that use both color changes and pauses. Very disappointed this not in my new MK4 when it was in my MK3+. Not encouraged by this being an open issue since at least July 23.
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
I found the commented-out code in Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/src/gui/screen_printing.cpp.
// Currently disabled, left in the code to ease re-enabling it
// case CurrentlyShowing::time_to_change:
// w_etime_label.SetText(_("Next change in"));
// w_etime_value.SetText(_(txt_na));
// w_etime_value.SetTextColor(GuiDefaults::COLOR_VALUE_INVALID);
// return;
This recent commit uncomments it! 👍
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/commit/860bf7678c559be669703a0e306d083cc3dacd72
RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
That is encouraging. What does this mean in terms of seeing it in a production release? I saw this comment in above the code:
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RE: remaining time till color change not displaying on MK4 screen
Latest versions of Prusa Slicer also break this previously working functionality for the MK3S+ at least in v2.8+
For me at least this is a critical feature so that I know when I should come back to expect to change a filament.
This seems to be a known bug and regression, but no word from Prusa on when/if it will be fixed.