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  • December 16, 2016 at 12:05 pm #10093
    larrycook99
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    I am new to the TinyG and am trying to interface to it via firmware, so I am trying to understand what each of the commands do by trial and error. One of these doesn’t seem to do anything that I can discern so far, text verbosity. What does the $tv=0 command actually turn off. And where can I find a complete description of all the supported commands? I have looked TinyG wiki pages but what I have found is terse at best for a lot of the commands.

    December 16, 2016 at 12:14 pm #10094
    Zootalaws
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    Have you looked at the documentation on the GitHub pages?

    https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG/wiki/Gcode-Support

    December 16, 2016 at 12:32 pm #10095
    larrycook99
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    I have. That was my first search but other than a reference in the status report output of what the valid values are, I can’t find any other information.

    I have discerned that $tv=0 turns the “tinyg [mm] ok>” prompt off but I don’t know if that is all it does. I suspect it is but I would still like a command reference that goes thru all possible commands and what they do if that exists.

    Also I noticed that the tinyG seems to send me 2 prompts after each command. Does anyone know if that is true and if so, why does it do that and can I control that somehow?

    December 16, 2016 at 1:49 pm #10096
    Zootalaws
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    I’m not sure what you mean by ‘two prompts’, can you elaborate?

    This page explains all the commands in some detail, including $tv : https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG/wiki/TinyG-Configuration-for-Firmware-Version-0.97

    Do you require more detail on a specific command, other than $tv – which is simply to turn verbosity on and off, or… how much info is returned from a command: abbreviated or full message.

    Enter a command with it turned off and then turned on and you can see the difference

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    December 16, 2016 at 2:00 pm #10098
    larrycook99
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    Thanks for the link. I remember seeing that page but apparently didn’t bookmark it.

    As for the prompts, when I issue a command using TerraTerm with $tv=1, I get two “tinyg [mm] ok>” prompts for each command.

    When I first noticed, it was after a “g28.2 x0 y0 z0” and I got a prompt immediately and then after the home operation completed. But then I did a “g1 x20 f100” that was not an quick command and I got two prompts immediately before the operation completed. I also get two after any command that reports status or changes a value, i.e. “$” reports status and then I get two prompts.

    It could be TerraTerm but I use it for other things and don’t see that elsewhere.

    I just want to characterize the communications so I know what to expect back from the tinyG when I send it commands so I can filter or parse as needed.

    December 16, 2016 at 7:07 pm #10099
    cmcgrath5035
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    The double response prompt is odd – never seen that. You might want to try CoolTerm (the defacto favorite of the Synthetos developers) and/or the Chilipeppr Command line interface. If they display similar double prompt, something is indeed weird
    I’ll assume you are running tinyG FW 440.20?

    December 17, 2016 at 1:18 am #10100
    Zootalaws
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    Plus one on both CoolTerm and Chilipeppr.

    Teraterm is what we use at work, but anyone that can get away with it loads CoolTerm: http://freeware.the-meiers.org

    Maybe one thing to look at is whether you have modified TeraTerm in any way from stock – given that we aren’t seeing the problem you are seeing, it’s much more likely to be your local environment than hard-coded firmware.

    And Chilipeppr is just so cool anyway 🙂 worth it just for the buzz!

    December 19, 2016 at 3:56 pm #10107
    larrycook99
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    Just to update the “extra prompt” I was seeing, I put a logic analyzer on the serial lines between the Arduino and TinyG to see that only a single prompt was being returned. So for some reason, TerraTerm is showing it twice. Probably a setting that is not what I thought.

    December 20, 2016 at 6:24 am #10115
    cmcgrath5035
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    When I first read your issue above, I immediately though you might have auto-echo turned on in TerraTerm. But of course that would echo characters you send “to” tinyG, not responses “from” tinyG.
    I have no familiarity with TerraTerm.
    Might it be writing, due to some setting, to StdOut and StdError (or equivalent)?
    Good luck in your search.

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