nanoDLP

I tested Shane's idea. If the button is configured as Anytime, the lift or lower occurs IMMEDIATELY. And, if you aren't careful with your timing, the running program can interject its commands and cause heartache (i.e. turn on the projector with the part 25mm above the vat floor!). So that does not work. I suspect the Printing option would do the same and the Idle option might make some convenient jog buttons to set things up but won't address my request.

The issue is that nanoDLP is running it's program uninterrupted. So even with the delay and auto descend, there is a reasonable probability that nanoDLP is going to start an exposure or make its own Z move.

I used to set auto-stop layers to inspect layers.

ok, I found it on Edit Plate called Stop Layers. That's fine but does not give me the explicit control that I would like. For instance, if I hear or don't hear a peal from my vat film, I'd like to check on the next cycle to see what happened. Preprogramming stops doesn't accomplish that. Once I have printing more or less routine I may not need it but right now it would be a great tool for leaning and later, I would like to do some creative things like stop and raise, swirl in a complimentary color of resin, and then continue to create multi-colored objects. I did this with yellow and green on a toad print today and he results were interesting.

stop does not raise the build platform up so I can see the print

Modify "GCode - End of Print" to lift it to height you need.

Bad naming, yes it runs even on stop caused by auto-stop or manual stop.

The Stop button actually cancels the print.

and when I tried to click Restart (not resume as above) nanoDLP apparently crashed and "site can not be reached". This happens quite a bit.

I can't find this "resume" button. On the screen after I click Stop there is a Power Off and Restart buttons. Are you talking about the resume button on the Plates tab? If so, that is even more work and confusion and less control than what I've been doing.

So, yes I would have to switch screens to get to it. And unless that button is dynamically added when the Stop button is pressed, I do not see it on my main screen.

At this point, I am going to move on to something more productive to do. If this were an open source project I could have implemented this feature in less time than I've spent trying to convince you there is a need.

Resume button dynamically added after complete stop.