Active Print Controls

[MChrisP1]

Not an issue per se, but notice of omission of desired controls for this section to 'tune' a print in progress:

It would be good to see:

• An overall 'Speed Control' control.... A variable %, defaulted to 100% but can be adjusted to increase or decrease overall print speed.
• Fans should be more than an on/off control, should also be a % adjuster.

Thanks!

[bryantjk]

Moving to 1.0.4. We're investigating the responsiveness of Feedrate/Flowrate controls and whether better UI is needed there.

[bryantjk]

Feedrate/Flowrate settings from "Active Control" view are being sent via the API and receiving a 204 response as per documentation. @AllenMcAfee That said, do we want a better UI for this?

[AllenMcAfee]

We want to replace the slider with a keypad input that has a lower range of 50% and an upper range of 150%.

[MChrisP1]

Is the lower range of 50 and upper range of 150 for fan speed or speed control. For both, they need lower limits than 50%. Overall speed/extrusion could get trimmed down as low as to 30% if printing flexible products on some machines, R1+ that I am using included. Without the Mods I have in place some may go as low as 20% speed. Id leave both with a lower limit of maybe 10%...

[bryantjk]

Feedrate/Flowrate ranges in the app are currently set to match OctoPrint documentation: Flowrate: 75% to 125%. Feedrate: 50% to 200%.

Fans are toggled on/off at the moment. @AllenMcAfee is adding fan % control on the board too? If so, I may need some help as I'm not sure that's exposed via REST API.

[AllenMcAfee]

@bryantjk the M Code for fan control is command: M106 S%(speed)s. We should do this the same as the flow and feed rate inputs.

[AllenMcAfee]

@bryantjk Fan off should be M106 S0

The currently set fan speed setting is not exposed through octoprint, so this will be an input only function.

[bryantjk]

Ok, will do.

[AllenMcAfee]

We also need to add a range available for the flowrate and feedrate (the range is 50% to 150%).