Network Printers

[curious aardvark]

right !
we have progress :-)

Some idiot had not installe the module correctly.
when i find him I'll give him a right good kicking ! ;-)

Anyway, once i decided to chck and then fitted it correctly - not only did my sdcard reader start working again, but the firmware installed for the wifi module.

No networks showed - which i was expecting, my house signal is weak in my workshop and the module is in a steel box on top of a fridge :-)

Then I had a thought and set up a wifi hotspot on my phone - picked it up straight away and connected.
Wahey it works !

So then I happened to notice that windows 10 allows you to generate it's own hotspot local wifi network.
So I did that and can now connect the printer wirelessly directly to the computer.

Now it gets interesting.

When you access the printer via the ip address you get a simple screen which offers you the chance to select html or set the modules own access point info.

I cannot find any ingotmation on html to upload to the mocule to create a useful web menu.
I do - vaguely - remember doing something similiar for the mini delta. But whil itlet you print via wifi - it did not let you upload a file to the sd card.
To my mind the main reason for having wifi.

So in one respect - 100% success.
In another - totally bloody useless :-)

There is an mks add-in for cura, but as I don't use cura that's no use to me.

Can't find any html frontends for the mks wifi module and mks just use github - which I find almost impossible to ever get any sense out of.

No way that I can see of connecting simplify3d to it, I'll look into prusaslicer later - should have a couple days workshop time this week.

But if anyone has any idea how to proceed from here - I'd really like to know :-)

[AutoWiz]

But if anyone has any idea how to proceed from here - I'd really like to know :-)

All the tft v3.0 screens from biqu or bigtreetech have built in 32 bit processors right on them. They are feature packed and you can just wire a filament runout switch into them and not have to make any firmware changes. You can send gcode to your mainboard from the tft v3.0. And they have a header on them for the wifi module. SO you might be able tu use one of these screens with a wifi module in the back of it to send a file to the tft's sd card slot and then command the print to start from there? And you could do that without any firmware changes or re wiring the printer for a new mainboard. The tft's are all plug n play because they communicate over that rx and tx serial connection. like a usb device.