Heater Effect - Doesnt start

[5teveO]

Hi all

I'm assuming this is purley a skill issue on my part, however from reading the docs I was under the impression that the heater trigger for LED effects was automatic. So if i have a template assigner to extruder - if the extruder gets heated at any point then the led effect swaps over to the heater effect - no macro to start it etc..

As it is in my config i have a heater effect defined and expected from the way i read the docs that when i send a print and it starts heating, then the LED effect will auutomatically start. Am i reading this completely wrong and I actually still need to have the macro in place in the print start?

The reason I was wanting this is so that when the heater is heated outside of a print the led effect would be shown

Thanks

Steve

[julianschill]

You have to start the effect or put it on autostart for it to work. Every effects can be enabled or disabled. If you have an effect that is completely black when the extruder is inactive you can leave the effect on all the time, though.

[5teveO]

Thanks Julian

Yes I started to realise my expectations were a bit misaligned - I already have an idle template effect (rainbow) that auto starts so I cant really have the heater one on auto - I also realised that the heater effect is basically letting led effects what heater to monitor for the temperatures.. not for the trigger.. Ive now added a macro to start it in the print start macro .....so as mentioned.. definitly a skill issue - just wanted it confirming :D

Thanks for the response.. will have a play with the simulator too..

Steve

[julianschill]

You can have two effects running aat the same time on the same LEDs, The values will be added together.