Possibility to recreate the "Lights dimm down when user not there" function from Prusa

General Discussion
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Is it possible to create that feature?

basically there would be two triggers:

  1. do Macro A after y seconds.

    • that one is easy, UPDATE_DELAYED_GCODE should do the trick. I do some similar stuff for a Case-Fan which gets turned off delayed after a print finished.

  2. reset the timer for Macro A and do Macro B whenever the user makes any Input to the UI (every Button-Press, every klick on the Printers LCD etc.)

    • for that “reset timer” functionality I know that this is possible as I also do this in my delayed-fan function
    • But the first part (user interaction detection) I’m not sure if this is actually possible. At least I couldn’t think of any way.

Any ideas?

  • cad435
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Hi @cad435 ,

I think idle timeout is what you’re looking for. You can dim the display when the printer is idle for an arbritary duration of time.

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Oh that’s cool.
Thanks for pointing this out!

I somehow confused that with Stepper IDLE timeout.

Does someone know if this will also fire when a print is in progress?

  • cad435
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The idle timeout wouldn’t go during a print. It might go during a pause, though.

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OIK, as far as I can tell this would not allow to recreate the desired effect, because the [idle_timeout] “timer-reset” is only performed when a actual CGODE is processed. Not when the user is touching a button.

Also, there is no event fired in to “disable” the timeout. (e.g. when the user is pressing a button)

So If I’m not mistaken, [idle_timeout] is intended to be a security-feature to turn off any heaters when the printer is just not doing anything physical.

It does not tie to the user input things (take “upload a gcode” for example or “browsing the Klipper-Screen”)

  • cad435