sleep mode
hello
most of the time i leave the printer to print at night . when the print finishes , is there a way to make the mcu to enter sleep mode , shutdown the lcd and motors etc after the print ?
Re: sleep mode
hello
most of the time i leave the printer to print at night . when the print finishes , is there a way to make the mcu to enter sleep mode , shutdown the lcd and motors etc after the print ?
Hi Sergey,
after finishing the print your end - gcode should already tell the printer to cool down, disable fan and motors:
M104 S0 ; turn off temperature
M140 S0 ; turn off heatbed
M107 ; turn off fan
M84 ; disable motors
I don't know any Gcode that brings gets the miniRAMbo in sleep mode, i saw there may be a way to get the MEGA 2560 in sleep mode but that would have to be implemented.
This display doesn't have any backlight/dimming function you could use in gcode. So it will stay on as long it gets power.
I am thinking to mod the LCD so i can dim it, even manually if needed.
The power consumption is quite low in idle mode, but if you really interested in switching on/off the printer:
- Option 1: Get Octoprint with enclosure plug-in and a relay to switch on and off
- Option 2: Get something like the Sonoff TH10/TH16 with a temperature sensor, write some code to do what you want.
And there are many ways to do
Hope that helps