Changing the connection timeout setting [SOLVED]

Coy_Paeltz · September 23, 2015, 6:08pm

I have a Solidoodle 2 printer and would like to be able to try using Astroprint. The problem is that I can’t connect. In an earlier version of Octoprint I needed to edit a configuration file to make the connection timeout longer “I believe I set it to 10”. Since I have been having so many problems getting Astroprint to work I went back and downloaded the latest version of Octoprint to see if I could find the configuration file and maybe just change the same file in Astroprint. Octoprint has made many changes since I have last used it and it now lets me change the timeout setting fright from the UI. Does anyone know where I can do this in Astroprint? If it helps my USB device shows as FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC.

These are not my particular settings but I need the file that sends these settings.

SERIAL - DEBUG - Connected to: Serial<id=0x30a9ab0, open=True>(port=’/dev/ttyACM0’, baudrate=115200, bytesize=8, parity=‘N’, stopbits=1, timeout=2.0, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False), starting monitor

Daniel · September 23, 2015, 6:38pm

You can edit the configl file /etc/astrobox/config.yaml and add this:

serial:
   timeout: 
      detection: 10

Note that the serial section might already be there.

After that restart the astrobox service: sudo service astrobox restart

Coy_Paeltz · September 23, 2015, 9:46pm

Daniel,

Thanks for your reply. I made the changes like you noted but I don’t think I’m getting the results I expected. Here is what I’ve done and what the log file says.

serial:
log: true
port: /dev/ttyUSB0
timeout: 15
detection: 10

I get this message 3 times & the screen says no printer connection

2015-09-23 17:09:37,992 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Connecting to: /dev/ttyUSB0
2015-09-23 17:09:37,996 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Unexpected error while connecting to serial port: /dev/ttyUSB0 AttributeError: ‘‘int’ object has no attribute ‘keys’’ @ comm.py:_openSerial:996
2015-09-23 17:09:37,996 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Opening serial port’ to ‘Error: Failed to open serial port, permissions correct?’
2015-09-23 17:09:39,042 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Offline’ to ‘Opening serial port’

if I take out the timeout line and leave detection
serial:
log: true
port: /dev/ttyUSB0
detection: 10

I get this in my log:
2015-09-23 17:13:43,379 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Offline’ to ‘Opening serial port’
2015-09-23 17:13:43,382 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Connecting to: /dev/ttyUSB0
2015-09-23 17:13:43,398 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Connected to: Serial<id=0x172b5b0, open=True>(port=’/dev/ttyUSB0’, baudrate=250000, bytesize=8, parity=‘N’, stopbits=1, timeout=2.0, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False), starting monitor
2015-09-23 17:13:43,401 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Opening serial port’ to ‘Connecting’
2015-09-23 17:13:44,352 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Recv:
2015-09-23 17:13:46,356 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Send: M105
2015-09-23 17:13:48,360 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Send: M105
2015-09-23 17:13:50,363 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Send: M105
2015-09-23 17:13:52,367 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Send: M105
2015-09-23 17:13:54,371 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Send: M105
2015-09-23 17:13:54,949 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Recv: start
2015-09-23 17:13:54,952 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Recv: echo:Marlin 1.0.0
2015-09-23 17:13:54,954 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Connecting’ to ‘Closed’
2015-09-23 17:13:54,955 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Connection closed, closing down monitor

serial:
log: true
port: /dev/ttyUSB0
timeout: 10

I get this:
2015-09-23 17:30:49,218 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Offline’ to ‘Opening serial port’
2015-09-23 17:30:49,234 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Connecting to: /dev/ttyUSB0
2015-09-23 17:30:49,240 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Unexpected error while connecting to serial port: /dev/ttyUSB0 AttributeError: ‘‘int’ object has no attribute ‘keys’’ @ comm.py:_openSerial:996
2015-09-23 17:30:49,241 - SERIAL - DEBUG - Changing monitoring state from ‘Opening serial port’ to ‘Error: Failed to open serial port, permissions correct?’

So at the end of this I still don’t see how I can increase the “timeout=2.0” value as shown in the second log above. I appreciate all of your help on this.

Coy

Daniel · September 23, 2015, 10:00pm

You need to write exactly what I described in my post. Including the indentation. There’s no number after timeout:

Coy_Paeltz · September 23, 2015, 11:12pm

the serial section of my config.yaml file now looks like this and the timeout still says 2 in the log file. Every time I check the log box the log: true always appears. If I type it exactly as you had it when I restart it locks up (3 spaces in front of timeout and another 3 space indention for detection) when I removed one of the spaces in front of timeout (only 2) it boots up. I also tried 2 space indention for detection and nothing different. Do you have any other ideas?

Does not boot on restart

serial:
  log: true
   timeout:
      detection: 10

 serial:
      log: true
      timeout: 5
         detection: 10

This boots but timeout is always 2.0

serial:
  log: true
  timeout:
    detection: 10.0

serial:
  log: true
  timeout:
     detection: 10

I’m sure when I figure this out I’m going to be upset on how simple it is but still no luck here.

Daniel · September 24, 2015, 12:28am

The serial block should not be repeated. If it’s there already use the one that’s there and use the same indentation (I believe is 2 spaces per level. I did make a mistake also, it’s not the detection timeout that we need it’s the ‘connection’ one so your serial block (only one in the file) should look like:

serial:
  log: true
  timeout:
    connection: 10

Coy_Paeltz · September 24, 2015, 1:36am

OK so I figured this out. I found the Octoprint documentation page here for serial connections. http://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/configuration/config_yaml.html#serial

This page gave me all of the options for connections and I just added this to my config.yaml. There may be more optimal settings but these settings allowed me to get connected.

serial:
  timeout:
    communication: 8
    connection: 10
    detection: 5.0

Daniel thanks for all of your help. FYI I always had just one serial block. I was just trying different settings.

Daniel · September 24, 2015, 3:54pm

Thanks for this. I think I’m going to change the defaults for next release. These are reasonable.