MK4 SoftwareFollowing the instructions, I got wifi set up (only took two tries to spell the SSID correctly :-). Then I tried to login to the PrusaLink web browser that is built into the firmware. I used the user and password it displayed and checked multiple times to be sure all was correct, but no power on earth would allow a login. Same when I told PrusaSlicer how to connect. It also couldn't send gcode files. Finally, as a random thing to try, I told it to generate a new login key. For some reason, the new key works fine. Everyone can talk to the PrusaLink web server now. Finally decided to try the input shaper fast printing. Everyone seems to assume you'll just know how to do this, but for future reference: In "Printer Settings", you need to select the MK4 printer that has input shaping defined (and make it a "physical printer" by pointing it at the PrusaLink web page). Then in "Print Settings" (no "er"), you need to select one of the predefined speed printer settings. Got some cheap 32GB usb sticks and had an adventure trying to copy the prusa stick to the neww sticks. Even though the new sticks came already formatted as FAT32, the MK4 firmware didn't seem to like them. I used gparted to delete the existing formatting and create a fat32 partition from scratch (setting the label and boot flag the same as the prusa stick in case that mattered), then was able to rsync the contents and the MK4 now liked it. For grins, I installed OctoCam on an old phone and stuck it on a tripod pointing at the MK4, and now I can monitor prints from anywhere on the local network. Next I need to look at the ModHeader chrome extension to automagically fill in the stupid credentials so I don't have to cut and paste them when connecting to PrusaLink (I see two year old github requests to fix this in the firmware :-). If I can get that to work I should be able to whip out a local web page using frames to display both OctoCam and PrusaLink on one page (not quite OctoPrint, but almost as good). Update: Weirdly, google-chrome asked if it should save the password, but the save prompt didn't come up till I navigated away from the PrusaLink web page. I said yes, and it does appear to be saved. I still have to click the login button, but that isn't too big a deal. I've now added this tiny web page to my local web server: <html> I can point a browser at that (inside the LAN) and get both the OctoCam phone video and the PrusaLink web page on screen at the same time. See my initial experiences. |