Endstops¶
This was a short troubleshooting advice provided on Slack - it’s being pasted here as-is until it can be rephrased and re-worked into the documentation properly:
Redeem basic endstop config! First and foremost make sure your endstops are working before trying to move. Now in redeem that is not quite as simple as you would expect. For these instructions make sure your bed is somewhere near the middle of its travel we do not want anything crashing into anything!
Go to your terminal in Octoprint and press your enstops with your finger one at a time you should get a response saying enstop # hit (# being what axis you just triggered) If you do not get a response Stop do not go further until you do get a resposnse!
Next go to your controls in octoprint and select 1mm and for Z press the UP arrow it should move 1mm away from bed for some printers with fixed beds that means usually the nozzle moves up! On others that have a bed that moves away from the nozzle because the nozzle is fixed in the Z plane it means the bed moves down!
We will stay with the Z axis now press the Z endstop and again try to move 1mm UP ( UP Arrow) if it does not move try moving the Z with the Down button it should move one or the other way this with tell you which way you have the endstop stopping movement.
For your particular printer and endstop location you need to edit the end_stop_Z1_stops = z_cw #stopping direction in a clockwise direction (I think you can use pos or neg as well) end_stop_Z1_stops = z_ccw #stopping direction in a counter clockwise
Soft Enstops You must have these set to outside your full travel in the min and the max soft_end_stop_min_z = -0.30 #300mm set to your printer travel plus some extra soft_end_stop_max_z = 0.30 #300mm you can configure to suit your requirements after! these settings are in METERS
If these are set wrong you will not move as expected you will not probe as expected!!!!
If you need to change direction of motors this is the line 1 or -1 direction_z = -1
The other Axis will be a similar procedure.