Orange pi zero 3 with ADXL

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MCU / Printerboard:BTT skr mini e3 v3, orange pi zero 3
klippy.log
klippy (20).log (1.8 MB)

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Describe your issue:

Hello trying to get adxl wofrking with orange pi zero 3. but getting this error. mcu ‘adxl345’: Starting connect
mcu ‘adxl345’: Unable to open port: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/tmp/klipper_host_mcu’.
SPI is enabled, done everythink as this guide says RPi microcontroller - Klipper documentation
but nothing works. When i look into tmp folder there is nothing such as klipper_host_mcu. No matter how many time i try to do this. sudo reboot doesnt helps too.
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You also might have a look at Measuring Resonances - Klipper documentation
And Anycybic I3 Mega/orangepi zero 3/ adxl345/ i2c - #11 by rvdr (please read the whole tread).

Your klippy.log indicates, that your config is wrong.

I would start over.

Good luck, hcet14

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Likely you did not or not correctly follow RPi microcontroller - Klipper documentation

Your log indicates that the /tmp/klipper_host_mcu does not exist, which in turn means the required service klipper-mcu is not running.

Check with systemctl status klipper-mcu and its output should look like:

klipper@bigtreetech-cb1 ~/klipper $ systemctl status klipper-mcu
● klipper-mcu.service - Starts the MCU Linux firmware for klipper on startup
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/klipper-mcu.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-10-14 08:17:22 CEST; 1 month 26 days ago
       Docs: https://www.klipper3d.org/RPi_microcontroller.html
   Main PID: 929 (klipper_mcu)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 1003)
     Memory: 744.0K
        CPU: 1h 15min 34.145s
     CGroup: /system.slice/klipper-mcu.service
             └─929 /usr/local/bin/klipper_mcu -r -I /tmp/klipper_host_mcu

Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.

If you get some failed results, try sudo journalctl UNIT=klipper-mcu to get some more information.
Usually, it makes sense to issue a systemctl restart klipper-mcu.service before trying this journalctl command.

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BTW, since this seems one of your popular advices:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein seem to have been a quite clever person.

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I have a Pi Zero 3 too, couldn’t get mine to work either. The first issue was that i couldnt get the mcu running on debian bookworm (supplied by the orangepi manufacturer)

If you get the error “Got error -1 in sched_setscheduler: (1)Operation not permitted” when running the command supplied by sineos
Running:
sudo sysctl -w kernel.sched_rt_runtime_us=-1
echo “kernel.sched_rt_runtime_us = -1” | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/10-disable-rt-group-limit.conf
will fix the issue

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This is a very good advice @rvdr and applicable to running the Armbian distribution or distributions building upon Armbian.

The above command I have provided would have made clear if the OT is suffering from this.
Generally, I prefer to know the problem before giving advices, especially if these modify Kernel parameters.

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Thank you for mentioning that. fixed my comment so its clear you should only run this command when having this specific issue

As far as i know, this limit is disabled by default on some distributions.
On the dietpi beta i didnt have this problem btw

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Pretty rude! Stay with your Einstein citation, this is not the first time you being rude.

Isn’t there a rule mentioned in the FAQ of this forum
https://klipper.discourse.group/faq#be-civil
Oh, I forgot you are “The great Admin”. But of course, that rule doesn’t apply to you!

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Sorry for mentioning you, I didn’t get that.

@realeezz
Why don’t you ask LifeOfBrian?

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if anyone have the same problem, found a solution, this post Armbian kernel & Klipper host mcu: "Got error -1 in sched_setschedule" worked for me.

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I was hoping he would reply to the thread and in the meantime I ordered a Pi Pico cause Im somewhat tired of the hassle.

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I had a Zero and I think it might be different to the Zero 3.
If I recall correctly SPI needed to be enabled via boot files first.
As I’m just stuck in repairing my v0 although my dog is helping me I can check whether I still have the documentation or not.

EDIT:

I defined my Orange Pi Zero like follows:

# Orange Pi Zero
[mcu opi] 
serial: /tmp/klipper_host_mcu

And it looks like I followed this here to get SPI enabled:

I’ll have a look tomorrow into my old KP3S config where the Orange Pi was used with the diskrete ADXL345 module and not the EBB36.
Hopefully I’ll still have it.

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Recent Armbian (v23.x) invested significant effort in the OPi / Allwinner support.

I’d advise to always try Armbian before the miserable distributions by OPi themselves (unless they meanwhile also shifted to Armbian, did not check for a while).

On my OPi 3 LTS getting SPI or I2C to run could conveniently be achieved with the armbian-config command and also WIFI is working flawless now.

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