Creality K2 “AI + RFID” Edition (spoiler: neither work)

Flagship K Series Creality Flagship K2 Plus & CFS
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AI Features (LOL):
Creality advertises that the AI will save your print jobs. Reality: I posted about it not working, and support literally told me “don’t depend on it, it may or may not work.” Translation: The AI is basically a coin flip with worse odds. If you sell it as a feature, it should, you know… actually work. Otherwise, stop marketing snake oil.

RFID Features (aka Useless Plastic Stickers):
Cool in theory: automatic filament detection.
Reality: the only spool that worked was the sample they shipped with the printer. I’ve bought Creality-branded filament—plural—and surprise, 95% of them don’t have RFID. So I get the privilege of entering it manually, like it’s 2010. If this is a “flagship feature,” then rotary phones are about to make a comeback. By now, RFID should just be a standard. But nope, we’re still pretending it exists.

Summary:
If you want an overpriced machine that advertises AI that doesn’t work and RFID that doesn’t exist, this one’s for you. Otherwise, go buy literally anything else.

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If you want working AI, install octoeverwhere, that also gives you remote management access to fluidd…
The built in AI isn’t worth enabling…

For RFID, you can buy stickers off AliExpress and use the rfid app to flash your own spools, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dngsoftware.filamentrfid
How many stickers to buy depends on weather you want to respool bought filaments onto RFID enabled spools…
Just make sure you buy mifare classic 1k rfid stickers, other RFID stickers won’t work.
Do you have a CFS ? Or standalone…
Either way, pretty much any modern phone with NFC capabilities can read/write the tags…

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i have 4 CFS units, as for the RFID, I thought Crealitys RFID was proprietary.

Thanks for the tips!

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It seems that RFID is a system that Creality implement to force us to use their filament.

A nice system could add any manufacturer, product and material, color and it’s temperature, and flow, advanced pressure or the maximum values of speed or the volumetric flow. With all the parameters the user could setup everything very fast with only read a label. I don’t believe that Creality’s engineers didn’t think on it, but someone didn’t like it.

And with most the machines online they could create a big database for all the users and be a new selling argument.

But not :confused:

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You can buy Creality filament with or without the stickers depending on whether you need them or not with a CFS

I’m not sure why you are having an issue with The RFID stickers because they do work as I use them in the CFS. If you set the CFS to auto it will read them. Check the settings on the CFS as it won’t read if it’s set wrong.

Might be a good idea to edit your topic post so beginners will learn like you did. Thanks. :+1:

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If you’ve used the CFS color system you would know that any standard 1.75 filament can be used in it.

Creality RFID stickers are a convenience on the auto read system reading color, temps and temperature for that particular roll.

In fact you can purchase Mifare 1K 13.56 RFID stickers and write info on it yourself to use on any filament to read in the CFS.

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I use some filaments, I have the app and I use the RFID stickers, but the system is limited. If I use a Sunlu PA-12 CF I must select Generic and PA-6 (not CF). If I use eSun Pla+ SuperToughness I need to select any other thing because nothing is similar. And I can’t store the flow or the AP. The system could be better.

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I agree with you on that. :+1: It could use some improvements.

I was just stating that they are not forcing us to use their filament with the RFID system. I was thinking that at first too until I started using the CFS..

Which app are you using…? I started with “Cfs RFID” for Android.

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Just the same app. It hasn’t more filaments or manufacturers because the system doesn’t allow it.

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