Replacing the sensor with a BLTouch

[AgentTDM]

Is there any way possible to modify the firmware of a Printrbot Simple Metal to where its board (Mine is a Rev F4) can use a BLTouch? If it's just a case of the board not being able to supply enough power, I can always power the sensor using one of the 5v wires on my ATX supply. I added a BLTouch to one of my other printers a while back and it has done very well.

[cbxbiker61]

For the most part there really isn't a good reason to go from the inductive sensor to the BLTouch. If your inductive isn't working properly, fix it. The BLTouch isn't without it's own set of problems.

[AgentTDM]

[cbxbiker61]

Anything is possible with the board...it does have an expansion bus. Best of luck hacking the firmware.

[AgentTDM]

[TutherJay]

Well, I see this is growing stale, but I _WAS_ rather hoping to find more activity on this, as I just got one for my old Plus (which didn't come with a sensor in the first place, as yours did). So in my case I also have a plenty good reason, I believe, to wax brave and hopeful.

Apparently nobody else has anything to offer, but I am curious if you've found a way to insert tab B into slot A, as they say??? Or are you still interested, or did you move in another direction??

Tweaking Marlin shouldn't be that tough, I wouldn't think, but perhaps that's optomistic. It's certainly not an unexplored, undocumented, stab in the dark as some seem to believe! At least it's not obfuscated by a serious language barrier, as with the BLTouch documentation, eh?

Hope you've mastered it - whether or not it helps me.