Marlin firmware EEPROM settings. All blank?

Veggienuts · July 30, 2015, 3:09pm

How can I fix this? I have uploaded the latest marlin firmware according to instructions with no luck. some help would be great…

ichbinsnur · July 30, 2015, 4:31pm

You have to uncomment this 2 lines in marlins configuration.h
then upload the firmware again :

//define this to enable eeprom support #define EEPROM_SETTINGS //to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out: // please keep turned on if you can. #define EEPROM_CHITCHAT

cheers,

Christian

Veggienuts · July 30, 2015, 4:45pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]You have to uncomment this 2 lines in marlins configuration.h
then upload the firmware again :

//define this to enable eeprom support #define EEPROM_SETTINGS //to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out: // please keep turned on if you can. #define EEPROM_CHITCHAT

cheers,

Christian[/quote]“Uncomment” by this do you mean delete it?

ichbinsnur · July 30, 2015, 4:55pm

Nope, just remove the // before the #define, as shown in my previous post.

Veggienuts · July 30, 2015, 5:12pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]Nope, just remove the // before the #define, as shown in my previous post.[/quote]Am I able to just copy and paste the code you posted then?

ichbinsnur · July 30, 2015, 5:21pm

No.
The two lines in the snippet are already in your configuration.h
You just have to remove the // and recompile.

Veggienuts · July 30, 2015, 6:49pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]No.
The two lines in the snippet are already in your configuration.h
You just have to remove the // and recompile.[/quote]Oh i think I get what you mean now remove the backslashes from the 3 lines you pasted? is that correct?

ichbinsnur · July 30, 2015, 7:21pm

Normally the configuration.h looks like that :

//define this to enable eeprom support
#define EEPROM_SETTINGS
//to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out:
// please keep turned on if you can.
//#define EEPROM_CHITCHAT  <-- line commented out

You must make it look like this :

//define this to enable eeprom support #define EEPROM_SETTINGS //to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out: // please keep turned on if you can. #define EEPROM_CHITCHAT <-- line uncommented

Veggienuts · July 30, 2015, 8:13pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]Normally the configuration.h looks like that :

//define this to enable eeprom support
#define EEPROM_SETTINGS
//to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out:
// please keep turned on if you can.
//#define EEPROM_CHITCHAT  <-- line commented out

You must make it look like this :

//define this to enable eeprom support #define EEPROM_SETTINGS //to disable EEPROM Serial responses and decrease program space by ~1700 byte: comment this out: // please keep turned on if you can. #define EEPROM_CHITCHAT <-- line uncommented[/quote]Thank you will give this a try tomorrow.

Veggienuts · July 31, 2015, 8:59am

I am guessing once I change this in marlin I need to re-upload it afterwards. Sorry for being such a newb!

Veggienuts · July 31, 2015, 10:02am

ok I have done this and it fixed the issue, but now my printers home is now screwed up and my x axis wont move. any ideas?

ichbinsnur · July 31, 2015, 12:50pm

If you used an Arduino version higher than 1.0.6 marlin wasn’t correctly compiled.
Any Version of Arduino higher than 1.0.6 will not work.

Veggienuts · July 31, 2015, 1:25pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]If you used an Arduino version higher than 1.0.6 marlin wasn’t correctly compiled.
Any Version of Arduino higher than 1.0.6 will not work.[/quote] I Have finally got it working. I did use the latest Arduino 1.5 I think and now everything is working great. I think the problem was I used the marlin with LCD support not sure why that would have any effect maybe this velleman board doesn’t support that version. any who Thanks for your help couldn’t have done it with out ya…

ichbinsnur · August 1, 2015, 4:17pm

Hmm, all my attempts to compile a runnig “velleman marlin” version failed by now using an Arduino version higher than 1.0.6.
Did you change anything there?
Where did you get ou marlin files from? From Velleman or from the marlin site on github?

Veggienuts · August 1, 2015, 4:54pm

[quote=“ichbinsnur”]Hmm, all my attempts to compile a runnig “velleman marlin” version failed by now using an Arduino version higher than 1.0.6.
Did you change anything there?
Where did you get ou marlin files from? From Velleman or from the marlin site on github?[/quote]I got it off of vellemans site I believe in the downloads. The version 2 didn’t seem to work right but version 1 is working great. I did still however change what you told me too to get the EEPROM working. I am amazed how well this thing is now printing supper good prints. Thanks again.

ichbinsnur · August 1, 2015, 5:52pm

Ok, that might be the significant difference!

As i have the LCD controller and Z Axis upgrade mounted i used version 2.1.1 of the firmware.
Seems the newer Arduino versions have a problem with the LCD controller libraries.
If compiled with Arduino 1.0.6 the v2.0 or 2.1.1 Firmware versions run fine even without the LCD mounted.

Anyway, nice you got it working.
Happy printing!