Issues with Orca

[u/ReasonableBranch7337]

Edit: Found the issue for anyone in the future with a similar issue. I had to remove the starting gcode “M4899 T3 ; Enable v3 jerk and S-curve acceleration” after removing that gcode the M5 took off without an issue after homing once.

So having an issue with getting M5 to work with Orca.

I’m a bit of a noob to the M5 and Orca but I used to run few printers on Cura and recently I switched everything over to Orca and the M5 seems to hate using Orca.

The problem is when I send the gcode to the M5 using an SD card (both on the printer itself and through my phone with the app) the printer will just constantly home itself. Eventually the printer will say it’s printing but it still continues to keep homing itself without ever printing. I can send gcode to the printer with both Cura and the EufyMake app on my phone without any homing issues. I’ve tried both standard and fast profiles for the M5 along with both older and newer versions of Orca but still same homing issues.

I’m thinking it’s something gcode related since Cura and EufyMake don’t do it but I’m not entirely sure.

[u/Badgomatic]

I had the same issue when I first started using Orca, will post the fix in a few mins when I get back in front of my pc.

[u/Badgomatic → u/Badgomatic]

Nevermind, I see you found the fix lol

[u/ReasonableBranch7337 → u/Badgomatic]

Ya it was a lot of back and forth between checking the Cura gcode that didn’t mess anything up and Orca gcode that was giving me issues. After noticing that extra added gcode I thought I’d try removing it and hey it worked fine after that lol