New Workbee can not home

Hi @Gina Botfield, could you please go to settings/system settings/edit config.g in Duet Web Control. Select everything and copy/paste it into notepad. Save it (*.txt , not all files) and then upload it here - I need to check a couple of your settings.
Alex.

 

PS - welcome to the forum!
Alex.

 

Ok, your config.g settings are almost correct. Did you change the M564 line? - Yours reads M564 S1 H0 - the default from Ooznest is M564 S1 H1. (don't change it yet)
If you prod one of the limit switches does the Duet Web Control (Machine Control) show that switch changing from orange to blue?
Alex.

 

When you made the changes to config.g when setting up the firmware did you definitely use the system settings editor to do it and have you restarted the Duet since (or clicked on "Apply Settings" - the Duet should ask you to restart after changing a system file, so I assume you have. I also assume you are clicking on "Home All" to test the homing?
Alex.

 

Are any of the axes homing (in particular does the Z axis home?)
Alex.

 

I am a bit puzzled by this - M564 S1 stops you jogging past X0,Y0,Z0, H0 allows you to jog any axis without homing. If you set M564 S1 H1 it should stop you jogging the machine unless you have homed all axes. according to the Duet WiKi nothing you have done should stop the homeall macro from working.
I have to take a break now (teas ready), but I'll come back to this in about an hour.
Could you go to the system settings tab and check that you do have a homeall macro in your sys folder?
Alex.

 

You should have copies in both. You can run the ones in the g code folder from the console as G code files. The ones in the sys folder are the ones that the home buttons on the Duet GUI access. I know this because I changed mine - see Workbee with Duet controller macro changes (but not until we've got the homing issue sorted)
Alex.
When you click on "homeall" are you getting any error messages - pop up from the bottom of the Duet Web Control GUI in red?

 

Hi @Gina Botfield, exactly what (if anything) happens when you click on homeall - you answered this while I was typing - I assume you are doing this with the axes near the centre of their travel.
I think my homing macros are in the sys file and there are copies in the g-codes folder (my PC is in my attic and my workbee in the cellar so I have to keep running up and down to check where things are).
One last thing to check - are you in machine co-ordinates when you do this and not workplace co-ordinates.
Alex.

 

Jog your machine so that it is a short distance away from all limit switches (including jogging Z down about halfway). Turn off the Duet. Turn it back on and then click homeall. Watch carefully to see if any axis moves. If no axis moves make sure you are in machine co-ordinates and jog the machine (carefully) back, right and up until it hits the limit switches. Make a note of the head position - it should be X550 Y520 Z94. Jog the machine Front, Left (don't jog down on Z - you will hit your spoiler board before you run out of movement). The machine should stop at X0 Y0 Z94. Be careful not to go too far in either direction - do the last steps as very small jog movements. If you right click in one of the jog boxes (eg X jog +10) you can change the distance for that step (it will change the -10 as well).
Let me know what happens. If this doesn't give me a clue what is happening we will have to call on Ryan Locke, but let me know what those head position readings are first.
Alex.

 

In config.g you have;
; Drives
M569 P0 S1 ; Drive 0 goes forwards
M569 P1 S1 ; Drive 1 goes forwards
M569 P2 S0 ; Drive 2 goes forwards
M569 P3 S0 ; Drive 3 goes forwards

it should be;
; Drives
M569 P0 S0 ; Drive 0 goes forwards
M569 P1 S1 ; Drive 1 goes forwards
M569 P2 S0 ; Drive 2 goes forwards
M569 P3 S0 ; Drive 3 goes forwards
Alex.

 

When you jog X- should move left
Y- should move away from the limit switche to the front of the machine
Z- should move down

 

Which way does the X axis go if you jog X- (left or right looking from the front of the machine)

 

This is the back of the machine (mine is leadscrew so motors will look a bit different)

 

Hi @Gina Botfield, I have sent Ryan Locke an email linking him to your thread. I can't see what you have done wrong and at this time of night the brain cells (both of them)  are beginning to shut down. It is bound to be something really simple so I am sure Ryan will sort it out. If I think of anything else I will post here tomorrow.
Alex.

 

That's right Gina - see my last post - time to take a break and sleep on it.
Alex.

 

Hi @Gina Botfield, what happened when you did step 4 of Testing Your WorkBee - testing limit switches?
Alex.
PS if you look back at message 19 you said that the X axis was at 550. According to your machine size it should have been touching the X axis limit switch. The homeall macro should still have worked.
PPS, you said the position according to the Duet Web Control was X550, Y220, Z94. Was that correct or a typo for Y520? And were non of the limit switches activated at the time?
Alex.