So I have this old Acer laptop that I'm now using solely as a Creatr controller and I installed XP SP3 clean on it and I've been trying to put in the bare minimum to make this my printer machine. I installed the latest Arduino drivers and I do get Creator and Repetier to connect to the machine but it doesn't seem to send any commands to it. After connecting I get the following commands:
Attempting connection at COM3...
Testing plaintext communication protocol...
RECEIVED: G90
Testing binary communication protocol...
Connected to machine!
SENT: d501015e
READ: d501015e
Any commands from the Jog menu go unanswered.
Does anyone know what I'm missing here?
I tried installing the old fashion way through the Leapfrog website but they now just recommend buying Creator and I can't seem to find the old instructions page.
Thanks.
Re: Help with new instalation
Aaaaaaaaaand I just solved my problem.
On this computer for some reason it connects through COM4, not COM3.
On this computer for some reason it connects through COM4, not COM3.
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Re: Help with new instalation
Outbound,
<channeling Maxwell Smart...> """""Missed it by THAT much!""""" Glad you found it!
Long ago I gave up printing on WinXP / Win7 and went to using Linux Mint 13 / Cinnamon on my Dell notebook. No driver to install. Port just shows up as "TTYACM0" when I plug in the USB cable. O/S footprint is WAY smaller, leaving more resources (memory, CPU) for printing.
However, there ARE two things I wish the Creator install would do in Linux (Ubuntu/Mint varieties, anyway):
1. Add me automatically to the "Dialup" group. Even though I'm an administrator, I couldn't read/write on the port until I added my username (which is not "root") to the "Dialup" group.
2. Create an S3D Creator launch icon on the desktop and in Mint Menu. I'm not a big Linux whiz, and when I link the startup script to a shell script icon on the desktop, it always asks me if I want to edit the shell script or run it when I double-click it.
If the Creator's Linux install would do those two things for me, it would be super-painless for even a n00b. As it is now, it's just a different pain from trying to figure out which COMx port it is...
Guess we all have to deal with Glady, the cross-eyed bear.
Dale
<channeling Maxwell Smart...> """""Missed it by THAT much!""""" Glad you found it!
Long ago I gave up printing on WinXP / Win7 and went to using Linux Mint 13 / Cinnamon on my Dell notebook. No driver to install. Port just shows up as "TTYACM0" when I plug in the USB cable. O/S footprint is WAY smaller, leaving more resources (memory, CPU) for printing.
However, there ARE two things I wish the Creator install would do in Linux (Ubuntu/Mint varieties, anyway):
1. Add me automatically to the "Dialup" group. Even though I'm an administrator, I couldn't read/write on the port until I added my username (which is not "root") to the "Dialup" group.
2. Create an S3D Creator launch icon on the desktop and in Mint Menu. I'm not a big Linux whiz, and when I link the startup script to a shell script icon on the desktop, it always asks me if I want to edit the shell script or run it when I double-click it.
If the Creator's Linux install would do those two things for me, it would be super-painless for even a n00b. As it is now, it's just a different pain from trying to figure out which COMx port it is...
Guess we all have to deal with Glady, the cross-eyed bear.
Dale
Re: Help with new instalation
I'd tried Linux (actually on another old machine which I then screwed up the system partition so now it won't boot from it) but it was Fedora and I just couldn't figure out how to install anything to get it to print so I gave up on it. I'm having enough problems getting my printer to work properly and just don't have the patience or time to figure out how to make Linux work for what I want.
Right now the XP install seems to be doing alright and just handle some of the file swap between machines through my Dropbox account.
Right now the XP install seems to be doing alright and just handle some of the file swap between machines through my Dropbox account.
