Good evening,
I was constantly "putting under the carpet" an issue I have every time I turn ON the machine, I thought it was a computer-based issue because of lack of the USB controllers, I switched to another PC (HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF) with a bunch of USB2.0 and 3.0 but the same thing is happening, I even connected one Smoothie to USB3.0 another one to USB2.0... same issues.
As I made a 4 head machine I am using 2 Smoothie boards and I constantly get connection issues when I start OpenPnP and press the "Turn on the machine button", sometimes only one Smoothie connects, some times non of them connects, and when I go to the GcodeAsyncDriver and start Fidgeting with COM ports like selecting it again and pressing Approve, restarting the OpenPnP and so on... I get it to work after 5-10 tries...
I don't want to do this anymore it is taking a lot of time just to get it working :D...
Trace/Debug log in attachment with multiple tries, Connect wait time is on 10s in this *.xml but I tested with 15s and 20s too.
Maybe I really need more USB controllers. 🤔
P.S. I am running a Test revision of OpenPnP as I was testing new features.
Thanks for help,
Best regards,
Zdenko