Thermal runaway and other error detection?

AstroBox Questions
#1

Hi,

I recently optimized my thermal protection settings and in the process I trigger thermal runaway 10 min into a print.
While the firmware halted the print the cloud interface didnt even notice and showed normal printing operation not even a failed print.

I didnt look further into it and its possible that the interface was disconnected temporarily, but shouldnt the the cloud notify you when I reads these errors, maybe even send out an email and trigger shutdown itself?

Cheers

PS. does the astrocloud now support shutdown command? I read some threads on git about that but couldnt find anything official.

#2

Logging and reporting error during prints is something we’ll add soon. The cloud currently closes completed and canceled prints. All others are left open and garbage collected about once a week ( the active print will eventually go away from your history ). This surely needs improvement and we are going to make it better.

GPIO and relay handling ( needed to remotely switch off your printer ) is a bit outside of the scope of our software. However we do plan to release a plugin interface for developers to offer these types of solutions.

#3

Good to hear.

Ill try to reproduce the thermal runaway and keep and eye open for it.

As for as GPIO I learned that in the firmware (smoothie ware) there is already a safety routine that can control a relay and this relay reacts to the same gcode that can control the ATX power supplies.
Then we only need a slightly improved error reporting and we have a fully cloud controllable routine.