Ender 5 plus + 4.2.7 motherboard + sonic pad

Egoseven57 · February 26, 2024, 3:58pm

hi both, i’m a rookie of the 3D print world… i’ve an ender 5 plus and i must change the MPB with the 4.2.7 motherboard because the old one stopped to work… than i decided to do an improvement and i bought the Creality Sonic pad… could you please let me know where i can find a config file in order to use all the stuff together?
many tks for your kindly reply… please help me!

Bonfireman · February 26, 2024, 4:37pm

Was pretty much plug and play for me, connect the printer by USB, the Sonic Pad flashes the printer and control of the printer goes to the Sonic Pad. I have mine hardwired to the LAN but it can connect by WiFi.

Egoseven57 · February 27, 2024, 9:45am

ciao, and tks, but i changed the motherboard with a new one : creality V4.2.7 that’s not properly engineered for 5 plus. i must do some adjustment in order to install it. at the end i did it but if i choose the ender 5 plus onto the pad (connected via USB) it doesn’t works…

amberhelios · February 27, 2024, 9:55am

Hi you need to adjust the pins on steppers etc with the ones required for the 4.2.7 board into the ender 5 printer.cfg.

github.com

Klipper3d/klipper/blob/master/config/generic-creality-v4.2.7.cfg

# This file contains pin mappings for the Creality "v4.2.7" board. To
# use this config, during "make menuconfig" select the STM32F103 with
# a "28KiB bootloader" and serial (on USART1 PA10/PA9) communication.

# If you prefer a direct serial connection, in "make menuconfig"
# select "Enable extra low-level configuration options" and select
# serial (on USART3 PB11/PB10), which is broken out on the 10 pin IDC
# cable used for the LCD module as follows:
# 3: Tx, 4: Rx, 9: GND, 10: VCC

# Flash this firmware by copying "out/klipper.bin" to a SD card and
# turning on the printer with the card inserted. The firmware
# filename must end in ".bin" and must not match the last filename
# that was flashed.

# See docs/Config_Reference.md for a description of parameters.

[stepper_x]
step_pin: PB9
dir_pin: PC2

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Komeekz · March 20, 2024, 5:45pm

Hi, can you share how you managed to get the Ender 5 Plus working with the 4.2.7 motherboard. I’ve recently damaged mine (probably) and I’m about to switch. From factory I had 4.2.2, bought 4.2.7 cause it was easier to get. I’m not worried about physical connection cause my both Z axis were joined under one connector from factory. Just unsure what software to flash it with and if I will need to update the screen software too?

Christoph_M · May 10, 2024, 9:16pm

Hi,
I facing the same issue. I bought a 4.2.7 borad and I am not able to run this with the sonic pad. I copy & paste the generic 4.2.7. cfg but besides the temperature I’m not able to change anything. Maybe someboday can help. If I need to buy a 4.2.2. board I will be maximum frustrated.

Christoph_M · May 10, 2024, 9:18pm

by the way: creality support sent me standard answer like use a porper 4.x.x. prifile etc and format the sd card

Bonfireman · May 10, 2024, 9:24pm

Mine has a 4.2.2 board with silent drivers works with my Sonic pad, they seem to be harder to get than rocking horse poop. Not much help.

Christoph_M · May 10, 2024, 9:36pm

MY CR10 V3 were added within 2 minutes. The ender 5 is now at 15 hours :-(.
I saw peaople in other chats which bought a 4.2.2. board. Its a bumer.
Good that you have a 4.2.2 this is saving some life-time

Christoph_M · May 12, 2024, 9:42am

Hi, solved the issue now.

Generate Bin file with Sonic pad for Ender 5 pro (works with Ender 5 as well)
Download the Generic Creality 4.2.7. config file (cfg)
Change the PIN (all) in the cfg file, nothing else (like allready explained above)
Happy printing