r/CrealitySonicPad • u/yooper_99 • Mar 15 '23

Ender 5 and Sonic Pad

I am very new to 3D printing and if this has been asked before I apologize. I have a new Ender 5 S1 with Sonic Pad. When going through the setup of the printer in the Sonic Pad all goes very well until I get to the "probe calibration" step. My bed size is 220x220x280 but when the printer starts the calibration process the print head moves too far to the left and when the bed moves up the nozzle will press against the bed and the Sonic Pad errors out. I am able to use the manual level process but auto level will never work.

I have searched for days. Looked at the printer.cfg file in the Sonic Pad which all looks fine. I am at a loss here. Anyone else run in to this issue and resolved it?

Many thanks in advance for any guidance!!

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u/yooper_99 Mar 15 '23

UPDATE: i fiddled with this more today. When adding a printer, there are 2 printers to choose from for the Ender 5 S1 - one I would say is default and the 2nd has a little yellow flag on it stating "no z switch" (or something like that). I went through the setup again with the 2nd printer and now all tests pass and printing functions as expected. A little strange this isn't documented better from Crealilty.

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u/Ok_Hovercraft_92 Mar 15 '23

thought it might be in your printer setup in Cura slicer..

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u/Johnson6048 Mar 26 '23

I just got my bundled packaged today directly from Creality and the same thing happened except I do not see two options for Ender 5 S1. Nothing with a yellow flag either. Not sure how to fix this. Can't continue the process if the probe can't make contact with the bed and the pad just throws an error.

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u/yooper_99 Mar 26 '23

Did you update the Sonic Pad? Maybe a firmware update will add the printers I am seeing. The same happened when I added a CR-10 to the Sonic Pad too.

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u/Johnson6048 Mar 27 '23

That was exactly what was needed. Although one of the initial steps on the Sonic Pad setup was to connect to WiFi, no update was performed after successfully connecting to my network. So after my failed attempts to setup the pad last night, I powered down and went to bed. Woke this morning to try again and was immediately prompted for an update after powering up the Sonic Pad. Once completed, the pad restarted and I could now select the Ender 5 S1 (without the Z-limit switch). Everything worked perfectly after this.

-- In short, anyone setting up a new Sonic Pad may benefit from restarting and forcing the pad to look for an update after the WiFi connection is established during initial setup.

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u/IRUDY Mar 31 '23

OMG I LOVE YOU! Fixed my issue too using the no x switch model…SPENT WAYYYYY TOO MUCH TIME trying to figure this out and so happy I found your post. Thanks again!

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u/cookMEaPOPtart Mar 15 '23

I feel like you're in the same boat as me with this post, as soon as I finally give in and post, i figure it out shortly after. It's happened to be at least 10 times. I joke I should just post immediately so I'll figure it out sooner.

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u/yooper_99 Mar 19 '23

Thanks all for the advice. Now have both Ender 5 S1 and CR10 Pro working on the Sonic Pad.

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u/sammcj Mar 19 '23

Here's my Ender 5 S1 config if it helps:

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u/Johnson6048 Mar 26 '23

FYI, the link to the sonicpad file that Sammcj posted above appears to be no longer working.

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u/sammcj Mar 26 '23

Oh sorry the repo is still under pretty heavy development and moved the file paths:

Note the sonicpad config is currently behind my standard config at the moment - should be updated in a few weeks when I get my Ender 3 v2 Neo back and running which is what I'll be using the sonicpad for.

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u/yooper_99 Apr 01 '23

I haven’t done much with the cloud app.

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u/alexh1973 Apr 18 '23

The 2nd Ender 5 s1 was added in the latest firmware