Hello, I‘m a bit confused about the AI camera function. Is the AI detection working by simply turning it ON in the printer‘s menu or does it need a paid subscription from Creality? There are different information on the internet. Thanks a lot for a short clarification on that.
No subscription, though I found it was necessary to actually turn the AI print failure detection feature on, after I woke up one morning to find THIS had printed overnight…
I saw it work after I had the subscription enabled. It caught a failed print.
Let me clarify…No PAID subscription (at least I haven’t paid anything anyway).
For some Creality printers subscription (premium) is free. But anyway often AI detection is not working 
I have never seen AI detection working at all.
According to Creality, this is due to not using bright enough filament, or poor lighting. I don’t know how anyone can create a machine that can’t handle AI detection with the built-in lighting. In addition, it is bright enough in our workroom.
Yes, that’s exactly how I see it. The AI recognition doesn’t work at all in my eyes. I have often produced a lot of spaghetti without the printer switching off. The printer is sold as a flagship. But at the moment it’s still a small motorboat
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It’s not working for me at all. It seems like a fake ad or a misleading feature… not good at all.
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Got the feeling its not running when printing. When you first start the print it wil detect your hands and stop the print bed from moving. When the bed is being probed it wont detect anything anymore. Even when i throw spaghetti in front of the camera it wont stop. One of the first firmware i had in januari of this year it worked most of the time. Dont know anyone here on the forum knows how to see the ai is running in the background ?
Same by me. If I hadn’t happened to be at home, it would have kept on producing spaghetti until the end of printing (over 1 hour)!
Oh, it is definitely running. If it weren’t running, I wouldn’t have had to turn it off to get rid of the “A print quality problem was detected” errors and get the printer to resume printing. (There was nothing wrong with the print.)
Thus far, apart from detecting a missing build plate once, the AI detection has never successfully detected any problems, even when the printer was printing nothing but strings everywhere, the model had broken loose from the build plate, and absolute chaos reigned supreme.
But false positives? It definitely produces those — not just false positives about print quality problems, but also false positives saying that there’s a model on the build plate. (No, the purple glue just turned white when I pulled off the last model.)
Clearly, this thing needs LIDAR on the print head pointing at the model, so that it can detect A. whether there really is something on the bed and B. whether the model is still on the bed. Trying to do this with a 2D camera clearly does not work, or at least this implementation sure doesn’t.
The 2k prints i have there was never ever anything detected not fals nothing, only at the start of the print like a tool. Thats why i think its not running in the background for me. Even my ender 3 pro and a sonic pad can detect better with a low budget webcam. Couple of weeks ago there was a fly on my build plate i got a message there was something on the build plate.
That got me thinking, as only once has it ever detected a bad print on my K2 Plus in 6 months, but I have a spare K1 LIDAR and I wonder if it could be re-purposed for the K2 Plus somehow - I doubt it, but it would be nice to find a use for it.
I’d like to see someone use LiDAR on the bottom of the print head to be able to resume printing from any arbitrary point in the process without knowing when this failed. It wouldn’t necessarily work with multiple filament jobs if only one filament stops printing for some reason, but for simple stuff, it would.