Pause macro causes printer to lose homing

[SaschaUncia]

Adding the default PAUSE macro to my gcode causes the printer to pause where expected, and if left alone for a couple of minutes, to cool the hotend and bed (this is fine). However it also loses it's homing location, and it won't let me resume the print without rehoming all axis.

How do I prevent this behavior?

[arabisaldrin]

idle_timeout. https://www.klipper3d.org/Config_Reference.html#idle_timeout defaults to turn off heaters and disable motors.

[SaschaUncia]

So there's no way to decouple the timeout commands or use different ones for when the print is paused (as opposed to forgetting a preheated printer for half an hour)

For example I may want to set the motor timeout to never, or at least several hours. That way I can have the print pause at a set point and not lose the positioning.

I may want the bed to stay preheated as well to prevent plate separation. Maybe for a max of 6 hours as a safety consideration.

The hotend meanwhile should cool after a few minutes and not bake the filament for hours.

[Edit] I actually had a plate fail as I was writing this because the plate cooled during pause

[SaschaUncia]

Ok, I think I see, You can enter gcode in the [Idle_Timeout] section which should cause the printer to ignore the default behavior.

Problem is it keeps giving me syntax errors

` [idle_timeout]

• gcode:
• A list of G-Code commands to execute on an idle timeout. See
• docs/Command_Templates.md for G-Code format. The default is to run
• "TURN_OFF_HEATERS" and "M84". gcode: M104 S0 timeout: 720
• Idle time (in seconds) to wait before running the above G-Code
• commands. The default is 600 seconds. `

Results in a warning of

File contains parsing errors: /home/Sascha/klipper_config/printer.cfg [line 108]: 'M104 S0\n'

Once the underlying issue is corrected, use the "RESTART" command to reload the config and restart the host software. Printer is halted

Even using the default settings of "TURN_OFF_HEATERS" and "M84" as defined in the comments results in the same error (with or without the quotes).

I replaced the hashes with dashes because the github editor was turning the code blocks into a mess of bold titles

[SaschaUncia]

Sigh It needed a space before M104 Syntax errors are the worst...

I'll go try it out

[Edit]

Ok, this seems to work. No way to add separate timeouts for the bed and motors, but they stayed on after the primary timeout. The nozzle cooled as expected.