Guppyscreen has some little glitches, but is still my current choice for the touchscreen

[DougJoseph]

Guppyscreen has some little glitches, but it is beneficial and I’ve yet to have a printer lock up mid-job because of not enough resources (which I had happen when using the Klipperscreen variant). I like Klipperscreen much better, but the lockups were a deal breaker on that.

Guppyscreen glitches include:

If you go to the extrude screen and press load / unload, while the temperature was not up, nothing happens, and there is no notification on screen that it was due to low temp, and it does not include in the macro to raise the temp first. By comparison, the “extrude” button on the same screen, does raise the temp first. So, the code is already present to be copied and pasted on the other buttons.

Other than that, whenever the filament runout sensor gets triggered, and I am offered a resume button, but not any unload, and load buttons, I resort to the Mainsail UI on my laptop… but then, the resume button on the Guppyscreen stops saying resume and starts saying nonsense. I have to resume by way of the console in the UI on my laptop. The touchscreen becomes useless until the print job is done and I can restart.

Overall, I really like Klipper, and greatly appreciate having the Klipper based UI’s available. So the couple of glitches here are not too problematic. The key is for now I have ways around them.

[jeffalanmcclain]

guess we can add "does not support timelapse" here too. :) Honestly, I don't think you'll be able to get it all working correctly without installing the full Klipperscreen version. And I know first hand how frustrating the TTC failures are when you exceed the capabilities of this tiny printer hardware. I too love running with Klipper, and I might encourage you to build a full blown Voron Trident or other full hardware supported in klipper printer if you really do love how these print and like Klipper and all of it's benefits over the locked down custom FW FlashForge (or Bambu or Creality, etc.) have.

[DougJoseph]

So, in the other thread, #215 (comment)

... @Matt-Armfield says he has Guppyscreen variant and does have timelapse, so apparently that is not what's keeping me from having it.

[Matt-Armfield]

Let me know if you need any configs or anything from my machine. I am more than happy to share.

[fernplant]

Yes Ive found it buggy and problematic as well but agree its still the best option for now (unfortunately)