Printing With Octoprint causing Stuttering and Blobs

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What is the problem?
When printing with Octoprint I get stuttering an a lot of Surface Blobs
What did you already try to solve it?

Installed New Octopi 017 on new SD card Sandisk Ultra 16 GB. Connected by ethernet to pi 3B+. Turned off wifi and bluetooth. Printed Identical gcode file direct from Printer main board and good quality clean print
Printer Ender 3 Pro. SKR Mini E3 Board
Log shows loads of time outs

Please can you advise what to try next
Ta

Logs (octoprint.logt serial.log or output on terminal tab at a minimum, browser error console if UI issue ... no logs, no support!)

2020-04-25 17:17:58,619 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Changing monitoring state from "Opening serial port" to "Connecting"
2020-04-25 17:17:58,644 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - M110 detected, setting current line number to 0
2020-04-25 17:17:58,651 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - M110 detected, setting current line number to 0
2020-04-25 17:17:58,657 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Changing monitoring state from "Connecting" to "Operational"
2020-04-25 17:17:58,673 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - M110 detected, setting current line number to 0
2020-04-25 17:17:58,681 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Printer reports firmware name "Marlin bugfix-2.0.x (GitHub)"
2020-04-25 17:17:58,691 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Firmware states that it supports temperature autoreporting
2020-04-25 17:18:01,985 - octoprint.filemanager.analysis - INFO - Analysis of entry local:CCR10_RC3_-x2-PETG.gcode finished, needed 48.15s
2020-04-25 17:18:27,549 - octoprint.printer.standard.job - INFO - Print job selected - origin: local, path: CCR10_RC3_-x2-PETG.gcode, owner: cmd, user: cmd
2020-04-25 17:18:27,579 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Changing monitoring state from "Operational" to "Starting"
2020-04-25 17:18:27,592 - octoprint.printer.standard.job - INFO - Print job started - origin: local, path: CCR10_RC3_-x2-PETG.gcode, owner: cmd, user: cmd
2020-04-25 17:18:27,602 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - M110 detected, setting current line number to 0
2020-04-25 17:18:27,610 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Changing monitoring state from "Starting" to "Printing"
2020-04-25 17:18:29,637 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Printer seems to support the busy protocol, will adjust timeouts and set busy interval accordingly
2020-04-25 17:24:05,998 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Telling the printer to set the busy interval to our "communicationBusy" timeout - 1s = 2s
2020-04-25 17:26:34,790 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:26:38,790 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:26:42,789 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:02,798 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:06,791 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:26,794 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:32,794 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:36,795 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:27:56,803 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:00,811 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:18,804 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:24,817 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:28,817 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:38,810 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:44,821 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.
2020-04-25 17:28:54,811 - octoprint.util.comm - INFO - Communication timeout while printing, trying to trigger response from printer.

Additional information about your setup (OctoPrint version, OctoPi version, printer, firmware, browser, operating system, ... as much data as possible)

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This is a common problem with both delta-style printers and those with 8-bit controller boards. You might take the edit-your-Marlin advice as seen here or visit the Anti-Stutter plugin thread.

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forgot to add
nfiguration.h

#define BAUDRATE 250000
Configuration_adv.h

#if ENABLED(SDSUPPORT)
#define BLOCK_BUFFER_SIZE 64 // SD,LCD,Buttons take more memory, block buffer needs to be smaller
#else
#define BLOCK_BUFFER_SIZE 64 // maximize block buffer
#endif

#define MAX_CMD_SIZE 96
#define BUFSIZE 32

#define DEFAULT_MINSEGMENTTIME 50000

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Also SKR Mini E3 is 32 bit I believe

5

Try the same file running OctoPrint in Safe Mode. If it doesn't do it, then list the plugins you have installed here.

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ok will do later thanks

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On the plug ins it is a fresh install so only the std installed plugins - no third party

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Will look at the Arc Welder later and maybe do some comparisons Thanks

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I tried safe mode and no improvement there are no plugins although I have just added arc welder but at present it is disabled. I did see on one of the threads recommend by @OutsourcedGuru that there are some questions about the TFT 35 screen I have. Do you think this might be the issue I quite like the screen but could try the old screen?

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The problem isn't limited to delta-style or 8bit only. I have a cartesian printer (Anycubic i3 Mega) with a 32bit mainboard and I am suffering from this error for two years now.

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What plugins do you have installed?

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I have the exact same issue when printing with octoprint, but not from the SD card. I'm using a BTT SKR 1.4 T. I spent several days trying to fix this issue from the marlin/board side but in the end running in safe mode made all the blobs go away. I'm now trying to find the faulty plugin(s).

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I've heard of two specific plugins, DisplayLayerProgress and TPLinkSmartplug, that can cause this. I know there have been changes to both my plugin and the other one to try and resolve this, but I personally haven't heard any reports back from users that were experiencing it.

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Of course those are the 2 plugins I use :expressionless: Thank you for pointing this, this should reduce the number of my tests

15

For issues related to my plugin I would love to get some feedback with the latest release.

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Which one of your plugins: tplink?

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Yes, that's the one that had reports of causing stuttering/blobs, but I have yet to be able to reproduce the issue personally. If it is happening with the latest version I would definitely like to know as I've done some extensive processing changes on the back-end in one of the newer versions that should have helped if the issue existed within my plugin at all. Like I said, I don't remember ever getting any feedback on the posted issue.

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So I just printed my test model after enabling back your plugin and all was fine. I'll now test DisplayLayerprogress.

Update: I can confirm that in my case DisplayLayerProgress is the one creating the blobs.

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What other plugins would cause this? I had DisplayLayerProgress, but even after I uninstalled it I'm still getting this issue