Couple UI suggestions for the touchscreen; don’t know if these are considered ‘firmware’ specifically or not.
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Already mentioned, but seconded: if I go to ‘Control’ and set a bed and head temp for 3D printing, please keep these maintained when I leave that page vs. resetting both to off. Reason: I do auto-bed leveling HOT because I think it makes a difference (any heat-related distortion is now built-in). [I recognize for the laser or milling toolhead ability to leave them on while going elsewhere in the UI is probably NOT wanted.
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Along those lines, offer ability to heat bed and nozzle as part of the auto-bed-leveling. Suggested temps 65C bed, 95C extruder (not hot enough to actually extrude or burn filament and create biproducts/clog risk).
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The Touchscreen UI should have either a ‘banner’ or ‘Notifications’ (as with Android phones) across the top of current bed temp (and on/off state) and current printhead temp (and on/off state). This goes along with the suggestion to keep them on when leaving the ‘Control’ window. EDIT - Also whether the doors are currently detected as CLOSED or OPEN!!
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Allow us to set a default for the enclosure light that gets remembered, so as soon as the unit powers on the light just comes on? Same for fan state perhaps.
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Could we see during printing status, besides the simple circle indicator, a second screen option of temp plots vs. time, movement speed vs. time (currently just streamed numerically), also cooling fan speed vs. time, sort of thing? More eye candy than anything else but might help with issue diagnosis sometimes (esp the cooling fan status in overhang droop situations).