Today I told the TAZ5 at my maker space to Autohome. It stopped high up on the Z axis and somewhere on the X & Y axes. It sent the message “Cannot autohome. Please reset.” I thought it would be as simple as finding the reset button. Oh, woe is me. I finally found the instructions to send the printer the gCode command M502 “reset”. Once that is done, save the results by sending it the M500 “save” command. No sweat: write the commands; save to the SD card; put it in the printer; turn it on. Got it.
Big sweat. No one says how this is physically done, What kind of file do I write the commands in for saving to the SD card? Every article I read then went on to how the the slicer works, how the firmware reads the gCode, blah, blah, blah. I’ve written various code since the 80’s starting with DOS batch files. But this seems to be beyond my ken.
Can someone please help this ol’ dinosaur with this? I thank you from the bottom of my heart. If there is a book like gCode for dummies that would cover stuff like this, I’d sure buy a copy.