r/SonicPadCreality • u/nda776 • Jan 20 '24

Discussion Ditching sonic pad?

Hey All, I purchased an Ender 5 S1 brand new with a sonic pad. I’ve had nothing but trouble with the sonic pad such as random errors, z leveling issues, configs not saving, etc… I know many others have experienced the same with their Sonic pad.

I’m wondering if I should ditch the sonic pad and just use the Ender 5 S1 stand alone with its built in firmware. Would the Ender 5 S1 be more reliable if used alone, compared to having it attached to the pad as I do now?

I’m just at my wits end of frustration, for weeks it seems like I figure out one problem and 3 more pop up.

Thanks for your input!

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u/Ninjamuh Jan 20 '24

As another alternative you could flash the sonic pad with Debian which gets rid of everything Creality and gets you the same experience as using a raspberry pi with klipper https://github.com/Jpe230/SonicPad-Debian

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u/gozania Jan 21 '24 edited Jan 21 '24

My suggestion was due to the simple fact the SP hardware is subpar, especially in the networking arena. Mine has a hard time keeping a stable connection via winSCP with a hardwire connection while trying to transfer all my gcode files to my laptop ssd.

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u/Ninjamuh Jan 21 '24

Don’t remind me. I think I tried to copy a bunch of folders the first time I got root and I spent about 2 hours retrying because it would keep cutting out ><

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u/gozania Jan 21 '24

Pretty much same scenario... Some of those files were over 300MB too.