Moonraker-timelapse support — am I doing this right? Not working for me.

[DougJoseph]

Thanks for including Moonraker-timelapse support in the latest v005 release (back in May, I think). I wasn't following closely, and learned of it only recently.

I see that the feature is baked into the new release. I have a working webcam (FlashForge's factory one for the AD5M Pro).

In OrcaSlicer, in my printer settings, under Machine G-Code, in the "Before Layer Change G-Code" section, I have added:

TIMELAPSE_TAKE_FRAME

Is there anything else I need to do?

Whenever I run a print job, the TimeLapse area indicates no snapshots were taken, and if I then click the macro button to render a timelapse, it gets done instantly and seemingly nothing is produced.

Thanks if anyone can give me a nudge in the right direction!

[harvinchan10]

Fan of your models @DougJoseph.

have you set the camera on the timelapse inside config modal?

[DougJoseph]

@harvinchan10 Thank you so much. I was not aware of that step or even that there was a timelapse section in the settings. I have now done that, and I am printing a test. Will update on whether this works! Thanks again!

[DougJoseph]

No joy yet. I marked which camera to use, and ran a test, but I still don't seem to have any frames captured or anything to render. Still stumped. Screen shots:

[harvinchan-iress]

sorry, dont think I can help much here.

I can replicate the issue your having if I disable Timelapse on the config modal. It looks like the TIMELAPSE_TAKE_FRAME is being ignored on your Klipper (this is the same behaviour I'm getting when I disable the timelapse on config modal). But I can see that you have the timelapse enabled on yours. Might be worth toggling it off and on again. then trying again? if not, might be a deeper issue with config/DB.

[DougJoseph]

Might be worth toggling it off and on again. then trying again?

Thanks for the reply! Will give that a try also!

[DougJoseph]

Might be worth toggling it off and on again. then trying again?

Thanks for the reply! Will give that a try also!

So, I toggled the Timelapse "enable" switch (in Settings) off, then (after a pause) back on, and this was while a print was happening, and this time pressing the macro button to take a snapshot, resulted in a seemingly permanent circling-waiting thing on the button, and still no snap shot image was created. Reloading the Mainsail web page gets the button looking normal again.

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[harvinchan10]

@DougJoseph Maybe you have tried this, I'd probably try and do a fresh re-install and see if the problem is still happening. Also, saw your camera, have you removed the protective film on the lens? I think it should be clearer.

[DougJoseph]

Maybe you have tried this, I'd probably try and do a fresh re-install and see if the problem is still happening.

At this point I'm close to being willing to. Hate to have to start from scratch on it.

Also, saw your camera, have you removed the protective film on the lens? I think it should be clearer.

I removed the protective film while installing the camera.

[DougJoseph]

Update: I've now installed the mod (the current build with time lapse included) on a fresh, new, third AD5M, and made sure its camera works, and made sure I selected the camera in the settings in the timelapse panel, and I'm not getting any time lapse snapshots or anything on that printer either. That's now two printers I have attempted and gotten no results. The following are the results of when I enter "GET_TIMELAPSE_SETUP" in the console:

Timelapse Setup:
enable: True
park: False
fw_retract: False
retract: 1.0 mm speed: 15.0 mm/s
extrude: 1.0 mm speed: 15.0 mm/s
verbose: False

Surely there must be some setup step I'm not aware of, or some needed library that's missing or something. Can anyone else give me anymore advice or a nudge on where to look?

[consp]

Oof, afaik you have set it up correctly.

Could you send all your klipper .cfg files? It might be a way to replicate if by transplanting them to one of our printers. I'm not promising a quick follow up, everything is busy busy just before the holiday season here.

[DougJoseph]

Could you send all your klipper .cfg files?

Will do!

[DougJoseph]

Could you send all your klipper .cfg files? It might be a way to replicate if by transplanting them to one of our printers.

OK, here are all my config files, I think:

config-20240718-044931.zip

[DougJoseph]

I've sense gotten communication (via comment on one of my YT videos) that someone else had the exact same issue.

Any chance anyone has any other ideas on this?

[jeffalanmcclain]

Hum...I had mine working in Fluidd on the printer originally, but have since moved to running a Raspberry Pi 5 connected via moonraker to the printer, and disabled the (older) Fluidd and Mainsail files on the printer natively, so all my control operations are run through the Fluidd on rpi.

The only other thing I would recommend, is to go into your printer g-code setup in Orca slicer and make sure you have the code in the TIMELAPSE section, not in the "before layer" g-code section (not sure why it wouldn't work, but I have the TIMELAPSE_TAKE_FRAME command in the Time lapse G-code frame...

BR,
Jeff

[DougJoseph]

Thanks, Jeff, for that suggestion. I tried that as soon as you suggested it, and it seems to not get any result either. So, I'm still on the lookout.

[Lostculture143]

I also have no luck at all
Reinstalled klipper completely, no luck. Just get 1second frame.

Camera also not streaming unless you constantly refresh the web browser.

[DougJoseph]

I too am still looking for some solution. If you got even a single frame captured, it's more than I have seen. I get no frames captured.

[DougJoseph]

Just checking again to see if anyone else is having either success or facing the same issue. ?

[Matt-Armfield]

I have this issue with the stock camera. I tried unplugging it and using a Logitech C720 webcam and it works for streaming but not for timelapse.

[DougJoseph]

Just circling back to say, I recently found out about a moonraker "notifier" feature, and I added the notifier code to moonraker.conf to get notifications (including snapshot images) on my Discord server. This notification thing is working flawlessly, including attaching the snapshot image, so clearly my camera is working. Yet I still cannot get time lapse to work.