Teething problems- calibration, connection drops and retraction issue

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Hi all,
So I received the replacement control board which solved the issue of only one z motors working , so .. so far so good !! Thanks Bar for sorting .

Ok , I followed the calibration routine and got as far as setting up if the calibration routine , all went well until the WiFi connection dropped just after the calibration process started .. the WiFi connection keeps dropping so I have to refresh the browser continuously… and as it’s the pc doing the calculations etc this could mean I’ll never get off the ground ..
so after restarting the Maslow and connecting to Maslow WiFi , I pressed release tension button and took the CNC off the frame , tried to retract all belts , and one caught on something temporarily, I freed it but when the other 3 belts had fully retracted , the one that got caught stopped retraction 20cm too soon … and I can’t seem to get that to resolve itself…

Any advice on this would be appreciated :nerd_face::+1:

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ok, update,
manged to get the 4th belt to fully retract, so started the calibration again , unfortunately the connection to Malsow wifi kept on dropping , so the calibration halted a number of times .
I know there’s an option to add the maslow to an existing network so ill give that another go … I shyed away from doing that TBH, as the maslow didn’t join last time with firmware v1.4 , instead it created a new network with the same name as the existing network , hopefully firmware 1.5 has fixed that issue ? . :sweat_smile:

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This is probably the best thing to do.

There are two different settings, one sets the name of the wifi network that maslow will create and the other one sets the name of the wifi network that maslow will connect to.

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ignuf wrote:

so I tried to get the maslow to join exising network but now have the issue
where I get some sort of login window ZTE… requesting a password , can’t
find it so far , is there a default passowrd ?

that should be the password for the network you are connecting to.

the default password for the maslow hosted network is 12345678

David Lang

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I had constant dropouts when connecting to the maslow directly too, connecting to it via my home wifi has mostly rectified this. I also had to make sure the wifi modem was close enough to the maslow for a good signal, when it was further away I still had some issues

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Deadset wrote:

I had constant dropouts when connecting to the maslow directly too, connecting to it via my home wifi has mostly rectified this. I also had to make sure the wifi modem was close enough to the maslow for a good signal, when it was further away I still had some issues

There are at least three problems happening here

  1. the maslow 4 has a very poor wifi signal (could be a combination of where the
    antenna is and the noisy electronics around it)

This is why your access point needs to be close

  1. the maslow does not give you access to the Internet. As a result, many
    devices decide that you really don’t intend to use this connection and
    disconnect after failing to ‘login to the captive portal’ disconnecting you and
    breaking calibration.

There were some patches early on to try and trick the devices into accepting the
hotspot, we may need to revisit this as it may have only worked for some
devices, or they may have done something to break the detection.

  1. some devices decide that if you are idle, you can be disconnected (breaking
    calibration)

David Lang

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Thanks Bar and DLang ,
I’ve got the Maslow connected to the network and that seems to be a more stable connection now …that said, it still drops the connection every now n again , can the usb-c port be used to attach a cable directly to a PC?

Started the calibration process,
The Maslow has completed the 7x7 grid and is calculating currently….

Some additional questions if that’s ok?..

Does the calibration process, include the z axis at various heights ?
I’m wondering if not, then could it be contributing to the accuracy issue brought up on another thread in the forum ?.. if I raise the z axis , even a small amount, while the tension is still applied it does feel like it’s having an affect on the whole assembly..

TBH, It kinda feels like the four corner axis should be independently mounted directly to the base so that they’re not subject to the z axis raising up and down.

Thanks again and regards
G

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thanks Deadset, i’ll give it another go :+1: