tckb / flashforge_marlin

:shark: Marlin firmware for some FlashForge 3D printers

Marlin 2.x Firmware for Flashforge 3D Printers

Current firmware is based on 2.0.7.2

What works?

• TFT display ( ILI9488 and OTM4802 )
• Touch screen controller ( XPT2046 )
• Chamber and bed temperature sensors ( internal ADC )
• Extruder K-type thermocouple with external ADC ( ADS1118 )
• Chamber RGB light ( PCA9632 PWM controller )
• Stepper motor current setup ( MCP4018 digital potentiometer )
• Print cooling fan, chamber fan, endstops, stepper motor signals control
• External SD card
• USB ( virtual serial port )
• Internal storage ( read discussion)
• Power-loss recovery (read discussion)

Unsupported

• WiFi (read discussion)

Head on to the wiki page to find more details on flashing the firmware, building from source etc.

Supported platforms:

The scripts are written to work well with the following platforms -

• macOS
• GNU/Linux

Supported printers:

• DreamerNX
• Dreamer (Untested)
• Inventor (Untested)

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Credits

• This repo is a fork of the excellent effort made by @moonglow, consider supporting his work.

Disclaimer

All though the firmware might work on the supported printer just fine, I still require testers to confirm. Please exercise your own judgement on using it. I am not liable, nor I bare responsibility in the event of a failure but, I will support you in fixing should there be any problems.

flashforge_marlin's Issues

Test Marlin firmware in Flashforge Inventor

add support for CreaterPro and Creator 2X

Marlin official repo contains sample configurations for createrpro and creatror2x https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Configurations/tree/import-2.0.x/config/examples/FlashForge

Improve config generation for machine

Add start/end gcode samples in wiki

Add restore to flashforge firmware on linux

to enable restoring the flashforge firmware, I would require the path where Flashprint saves the firmware

Add install option to build script

Add 'restore' to latest flashforge firmware in install script

Fix the printer name

The Build script fails to build proper name

https://github.com/tckb/FlashForge_Marlin/runs/2361234947?check_suite_focus=true

./build_marlin.sh: line 232: [: missing ]' ./build_marlin.sh: line 235: [: missing ]'
./build_marlin.sh: line 238: [: missing `]'

Stock firmware flashing timesout, requires two tries to flash

[INFO]: Flashing FlashForge_Marlin/BUILD/marlin_dreamer_nx_v0.8.bin
Flashing firmware:  FlashForge_Marlin/BUILD/marlin_dreamer_nx_v0.8.bin
***********"
Ready to Flash Stock?:  False
***********"
Switch off your printer and connect to this computer via USB. When your are ready, press enter and switch on printer..
Searching for Flashforge printers ...
Found printer:

 DEVICE ID 0315:000a on Bus 020 Address 054 =================
(...)
 iManufacturer          :    0x1 Flashforge
 iProduct               :    0x2 FlashForge Dreamer NX 3D Printer
(...)
  CONFIGURATION 1: 100 mA ==================================
(...)
    INTERFACE 0: Vendor Specific ===========================
(...)      ENDPOINT 0x1: Bulk OUT ===============================
(...)      ENDPOINT 0x81: Bulk IN ===============================
(...)      ENDPOINT 0x83: Bulk IN ===============================
(...)
      ENDPOINT 0x3: Bulk OUT ===============================
(...)
Initiating control loop...
Starting control loop...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "FlashForge_Marlin/ff_flash_firmware.py", line 87, in <module>
    ret = printer.read(BULK_IN_ENDPOINT_ADDR, 5000)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/usb/core.py", line 1019, in read
    ret = fn(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py", line 846, in bulk_read
    return self.__read(self.lib.libusb_bulk_transfer,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py", line 954, in __read
    _check(retval)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py", line 604, in _check
    raise USBError(_strerror(ret), ret, _libusb_errno[ret])

Improve the change log creation log

Use official Marlin repo as submodule

the current repo is based on 2.0.7.2 release version of Marlin. This is not a maintainable, a better approach would be using the official release version as a submodule and patch the branch with Flashforge related changes

SHOW_REMAINING_TIME option

commit

Must do nothing in our case, we do not have HAS_MARLINUI_U8GLIB or HAS_MARLINUI_HD44780 or IS_TFTGLCD_PANEL enabled. It works for you ?

Test Marling firmware in Flashforge Dreamer