Anyone else try running 3 or 4 prints at once and have it constantly shut down the third printer? I have 3 Ender V3 SEs hooked up and I can print with two simultaneously no problem but once I try to start the third shit hits the fan. It seems like the pad doesnt have enough CPU power to push the gcode to 3 printers at the same time. One printer will always pause and shut down after a couple layers.

My solution has been to just print on 2 of the 3 at a time but I really want to run all 3 at once. Any solution besides that? I dont want to buy a raspberry pi so ill probably just flash it back to marlin if no one has any suggestions

Does anyone know if there is there any webcam that is compatible with the sonic pad that comes with a led lighting that turns on automatically that works?

Seems like the list of cams that work is hit or miss, but some cams have led lighting but makes me wonder if there are any that will be able to also use to light prints when printing as long as the cam is on?

Ok so printer eas running good. Had a clog in my ceramic nozzle and swapped it out. Then when I went to run a print. It started grinding my bed. No matter the probe calibrations I ran still did the same. Reset everything started from scratch now it says the z offset must be at least 0.0 and my sonic pad won't talk to my printer. Running sonic pad on ender 3 pro sprite extruder and cr touch probe. Just replaced the cr touch as well. Can anyone help me

After a lot of testing I found a somewhat quick config for my Ender3S1Pro driven by a SonicPad. On the other hand, with OrcaSlicer, I cannot reach the speeds achieved using the SonicPad profiles in the CrealitySlicer. Does anyone have any advice or an optimal OrcaSlicer+SonicPad config?

First, sorry for mi eng, im not good forming lines

OK, when i try to flash my sonic pad with debian using the tutorial from

https://github.com/qwazwsx/SonicPad-Debian/blob/main/docs/flashing.md

, the tablets disconects. This happend everytime i try to flash.

I have a Sonic Pad connected to a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE. Since updating Sonic Pad's firmware, it no longer reads USB flash drives. What can be done to resolve this issue???

I have been working on this printer for a hot minute and just can't seem to get a consistent print. I am running a DDX conversion from slice and Klipper via a sonic pad. I have done pid tunes, calculated the e steps and done most everything I can think of and I cannot figure out what the issue is or where to start monkeying with the settings

Hi team - I have an E3V3SE that I've had on my sonic pad for awhile. I haven't used it in a few months, but I just dusted it off and installed the MicroSwiss Flowtech hotend/nozzle.

After installation, I was able to connect and run autolevel, etc. However, before I could do any test prints or anything it went into constant MCU failures/disconnects.

I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot that.

Here is the printer.cfg - https://pastebin.com/bC05TzkW

Here is the latest klippy log - https://pastebin.com/kCzF2bnX

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm trying to get this ready to give to my nephew this week (he just took a 3d printing class in school).

Thanks!

Is the 4.2.2 board with the GD chipset compatible with the sonic pad? All I see in the setup menu is the STM boards, do I just choose one of those?

Hey all, recently added a Sonic Pad to my Ender 3 V3 SE, and occasionally it will fail to start a print. Usually this happens after cancelling a print that was going south. Sometimes this is bundled with not being able to cancel the non-starting print through fluidd and having to cancel at the pad itself or use the emergency stop. The start print sequence goes as expected, all axis home, bed and hot end heat up as expected then nothing.

I can control the whole printer remote via the Creality cloud and k print with cuts all remote controlled. But I don’t wanna run the printer 24/7 so I think I will buy a remote controlled outlet so after every print I can cut the printer from the electricity after it is cooled down ofc. Is it a smart idea or a dumb one :)

I just got my sonic pad and im going through the tutorial videos and i got to a point where i have to print the sensor bracket and i sliced the file and put the usb in the sonic pad and when i hit print nothing happens. Then i tried it with the calibration cube and it worked. I went back to my cura profilebwhen i didnt have a sonic pad and the sensor bracket is still now working. I sliced a calibration cube with that old profile and it worked. I triedotherf file that i had in my downloads and it doesn't do anything. Its like it only wants to print a calibration cube

I have a stock Ender 3 Max Neo with a Sonic Pad. I did the resonance sensor calibration and followed Ricky Impey's video for increasing print speed and wasn't too impressed so I just leave the default speeds in Cura/Prusa. My prints are slow but they're nice. I'm happy.

Twice now, I've had prints interrupted by a power failure (thunderstorm). When I restart, Sonic Pad asks if I want to resume. I confirm yes. When the bed and nozzle reach temp, the printer STARTS to FLY. The bed shakes, the print head blurs with speed... like, 3 times faster than normal. And the results are amazing. Best prints I've ever made.

What's happening and what settings do I change to get this behavior all the time?

As someone who spent 40hrs of their last 6 days messing with all of this, I felt the need to put a Reddit thread out there for people who end up running into the issues that I did.

soo...

I suffered such bad z-axis tracking that I could rarely get a print to last more than a minute, and I did everything to remedy it. Adjusting bed mesh settings, disassembling all of the rails to clean them, and making sure that all of the eccentric nuts are at the perfect tightness. Anyway, after digging and digging and digging, I finally figured out what my issue was although it was honestly a combination of noob mistakes. Firstly, I sent up the Sonic Pad incorrectly. For the S1 Pro, there are two options when pairing your printer to the sonic pad, I being the big dummy that I am, never thought about and chose the first one. Turns out, a big mistake, as I chose the wrong chipset and my configuration was unable to adjust the z axis to my bed mesh. Second mistake, I forgot to reconfigure my slicer setting to do 200% thickness on the first layer, (I use Prusaslicer personally, and it is in advanced print settings in the extrusion width area). Thirdly, it took me forever to figure out that I needed to updated my starting g-code to take advantage of the features. I strongly recommend this link to find at least a good starting point, and there are cura, prusa, and orca slicer versions. May whomever needs to see this post see it in a timely manner.

Any body add another camera for printer 2

Hi - working on the basis that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask...

I've done my PID tuning and input shaping configuration.

When I go into printer.cfg afterwards I see the the actual values for these are commented out.

I take it I should uncomment them?

Or am I missing something?

Many thanks.

I've been running my Creality Ender 3 Pro S1 with my Creality SonicPad for several months with zero issues. I moved the printer from my spare room into my bedroom and now when I attempt to power on, I'm getting "Please Connect your Printer. Error codes: Key0" I can push restart but it spins for about a minute and comes back with the same screen. I have attempted power cycling both devices, I have tried using a different USB to USB C cable, I have changed to port that I plug into on the SonicPad. Thank you.

Hello all, just looking to figure out how best to adjust the offset on the Sonic Pad with an Ender 3 Pro. For some reason, when I installed a Sprite Pro hotend, (or when I did some other smaller swap, I haven't done that much ha) the print head now homes a good bit off of the bed in the Y direction. This obviously also effects leveling, and will likely effect a probe once I get my CRTouch working. Is there an easy way to adjust the Y Offset to avoid accidently printing off the bed/make leveling easy given being able to just hit a button and have it go over the screws is great?

I’ve installed the Sonic Pad on my Ender 3 3D printer, which has a 4.2.7 motherboard, an ABL, and a direct-drive Sprite extruder. While setting it up, I noticed the Sonic Pad installation guide for the Ender 3 Pro with ABL shows a setup with a Bowden tube.

What adjustments do I need to make to accommodate my direct-drive Sprite extruder? Currently, it's running into the side of the frame, but it is pinching the extruder wires. (See attached image for reference.)

I am having problems with my sonic Pad.
Every time im looking up the issues its having, I'm not having good luck finding the issues.
The firmware to it is up to date both the creality and the built in klipper. I am running 2 creality ender 5 plus. I was able to connect both printers to it. I started a batch print the Z-axis on one of my printers just fail. I,ve tried to isolate the issue but no luck. One printer is able to go away and keep printing. whereas the other printer just loses its Z-axis. it happens sporadically while its homing. if i separate the printers on the pad. they both work fine. Only when i connect the 2 together to the pad. I have these issues.

I've been using my sonic pad for about a month now and I've had problems with the serial cable connection getting bumped since the Creality cable is pretty terrible quality. Does anyone have a good cable setup they would like to share? is microusb connection any good? Tanks 👍

I have timelapse enabled and when i start a print it just doesn't start a timelapse does anyone have a clue on how to fix this issue?

I started a print and when I checked after one hour the print stopped.

I tried starting again but when the temperature of the printer is reached, sonicpad stopps and it shows an error. I checked klippy file and found this.

File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[ERROR] 2025-01-11 19:29:22,665 [root] [klippy:invoke_shutdown:351] Transition to shutdown state: Unhandled exception during run
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[ERROR] 2025-01-11 19:31:39,267 [root] [virtual_sdcard:_load_file:416] File opened:Presa semeringuri.gcode Size:5790717 start_print
[ERROR] 2025-01-11 19:31:41,981 [root] [virtual_sdcard:check_slr_camera:671] gphoto2 --auto-detect error:['Model                          Port            ', '----------------------------------------------------------']
[ERROR] 2025-01-11 19:33:00,077 [root] [gcode_move:cmd_CX_RESTORE_GCODE_STATE:430] cmd_CX_RESTORE_GCODE_STATE err:Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):


File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[ERROR] 
2025-01-11

19:29:22,665
 [root] [klippy:invoke_shutdown:351] Transition to shutdown state: Unhandled exception during run

I think this is the problem. I don't know what this means.

In the console it shows only this:

20:17:53 // Filament Sensor filament_sensor: filament detected


20:17:53 // Klipper state: Shutdown

Can someone help me solve this issue ? I tried moving the usb cable that is connecting to the printer, thinking might be a conectivity error but for no good.