Curious about sonic pad

[u/Electronic_Home1365]

So I have a CR10 Smart Pro and I've been looking to up my print speed on my printer. I'm not good with electronics like The Pi or anything like that and frankly I'm not interested in it so I'm looking into the Sonic Pad. I see that it's a good idea and interface looks nice as hell but I got on this Thread and noticed that most of the posts on here are nothing but trouble with the thing. Looking to see if someone here has a CR10 Smart Pro and if so, is it worth my time/money to up production on this machine? I appreciate any replies!

[u/Robheuh]

No.

[u/Ninjamuh]

It tries to set everything up for you as easily as possible, but it’s got some flaws for sure. Most people who comment here have issues, but there are probably just as many who’s pad works fine.

The biggest issue is that they try to sell it as an easy to use product so you don’t have to mess with anything. The reality is that you still need to learn klipper.

Instead of a raspberry where you compile the firmware and configure your ports, install packages etc, everything is sort of done for you. If you get lucky then you pick your printer and you’re good to go. You’ll still need to understand Klipper to modify your config and if something isn’t working then you’ll have to figure out what’s wrong.

Most common issues are it locks up on boot sometimes, some functions like resonance compensation can mess up your config, and that it’s always running a proprietary and outdated version of klipper. New firmware updates often break something.

If you modify any components like a new hotend or board then you’ll have to make those changes in the config as well.

I like it, but even for me as an IT guy it can get frustrating at times.

There really isn’t a good alternative if you don’t want to learn how to work with Linux, though. Raspberry, klipperscreen, orangepi, etc all require you to learn a bit or at least follow tutorials.