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  1. Ken Filbeck

    Ken Filbeck New Member

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    Have gotten to testing the motors stage in the set up with a mac. We are able to connect to the printer, as we hear a soft sound from it, and it says so in the command lines. However, there is "1 commands waiting" in the command lines and in the blue banner box in the print panel area. When I press home to the z axis (or any other axis) it adds to the command lines and blue banner box with nothing happening. Please advise.
     
    #1 Ken Filbeck, Aug 18, 2013
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    John Fretwell New Member

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    I am getting the same issue. Yesterday it was fine but now the commands just don't go through, i have deleted the driver, reset the machine, re-installed the driver but nothing, dead as a dodo.
     
    #2 John Fretwell, Oct 3, 2013
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    that means that you are connected but not communicating you need to double check the baud rate remember its 250000 I see alot of people leave out a 0. Each command that gets sent to the printer waits for an acknwledgement that it has been received if that is not received the commands will simply stack in the queue and show as x command waiting so yeven though you may be connected you are not communicating
     
    #3 tesseract, Oct 5, 2013
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    I've been receiving the same error. The strange part is that when I turn the printer off/on and restart repetier, sometimes the connection is established. It's a hit and miss for me unfortunately.
     
    #4 alonsoa, Oct 19, 2013
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    When I tried in Windows each time I re booted or restart teh printer I found it best to remove it not delete it but remove it from Device manager and then let window rediscover it some time it came up with the same number sometimes not but what ever it turned out being I set Repetier to be the same and would work until I rebooted or restarted stuff.

    moved to Mac and it was stable

    Don't know if that helps but at least yo know it is not uncommon
     
    #5 tesseract, Oct 19, 2013
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