Julia pro touch UI- Not connecting to MKS

Issue: On starting the machine the the Pi does not connect to MKS and shows an offline error.  To connect need to open the Octoprint terminal and disconnect, and reconnect to the Pi to establish a connection with MKS.

Cause: Octoprint issue. The updated code snippet will solve the issue.

Solution:

Previous code snippet.

for result line:

                        if ‘FTDI’ in line:

                            self.MKSPort = line[line.index(‘ttyUSB’):line.index(‘ttyUSB’) + 7]

                            print self.MKSPort

                if not self.MKSPort:

                    octopiclient.connectPrinter(port=”VIRTUAL”, baudrate=115200)

Updated code snippet.

for result line:

                        if ‘ch341-uart’ in line:

                            self.MKSPort = line[line.index(‘ttyUSB’):line.index(‘ttyUSB’) + 7]

                            print self.MKSPort

                        elif ‘FTDI’ in line:

                            self.MKSPort = line[line.index(‘ttyUSB’):line.index(‘ttyUSB’) + 7]

                            print self.MKSPort

                if not self.MKSPort:

                    octopiclient.connectPrinter(port=”VIRTUAL”, baudrate=115200)

Works for both mks 2,1 and 1.4.