A collection of useful Klipper know-how and tips
Table of Content
General
- Installing Klipper with KIAUH
- Klipper Architecture / Ecosystem
- Klipper Versioning, Downgrading, and Bisecting
- The “dirty” Flag and the Team’s Position
- Will a Klipper Printer print much faster?
- Other Single Board Computers (SBC) apart from Raspberry Pis
- Creality Sonic Pad
- 3D Printers with Preinstalled and Modified Klipper Versions
- Running Klipper in a Virtual Machine (VM)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye) udev bug - No board or serial found
- BRLtty / ModemManager - Services Interfering with Klipper
- Klipper-mcu Service Fails to Start
- Testing Klipper Pull Requests
- CAN Basics
- Klipper’s printer.cfg - Syntax and Parsing Rules
- Klippy.log - Statistics and Interpretation
- Troubleshooting Spontaneous SBC Reboots and Crashes in Klipper
Support
- How-To Trouble-Shoot
- How-To Ask for Help
- Issues flashing the printer board
- Advanced Trouble-Shooting / Graphing Klipper
Common Klipper Error Messages
- Timer too close
- Rescheduled timer in the past
- Move exceeds maximum extrusion (AA mm^2 vs BB mm^2)
- Move out of range: X Y Z [E]
- Got EOF when reading from device
- Timeout with MCU / Lost communication with MCU
- MCU ‘mcu’ shutdown: Command request / Shutdown due to webhooks request
- Heater <name> not heating at expected rate
- ADC out of range
- Mcu: Serial connection closed / Timeout on connect / Wait for identify_response
- Internal error in MCU ‘mcu’ stepcompress
- SAVE_CONFIG section ‘bltouch’ option ‘z_offset’ conflicts with included value
- Can not update MCU '<name>' config as it is shutdown
- MCU Protocol error caused by running an older version of the firmware
- No trigger on [X / Y / Z] after full movement
- Missed scheduling of next digital out event
- TMC 'stepper' reports GSTAT: 00000001 reset=1(Reset)
- Unable to read tmc uart ‘stepper’ register IFCNT
- Unable to write tmc spi ‘stepper’ register GLOBALSCALER
- Region ROM Overflowed / Region Text Overflowed
Miscellaneous Topics
- Interpreting the Input Shaper Graphs
- Understanding X and Y Axes Limits and Homing
- Using START_PRINT and END_PRINT Macros
- Stepper Motors in 3D Printing: Characteristics & Practical Guidelines
- SpreadCycle and StealthChop (an advanced guide)
- The Myth of G2 / G3 Arc Commands
- Working with Line Voltage (110 V / 230 V / >50 V)
Final Notes
- The leading and official documentation is https://www.klipper3d.org/
- This category will be amended or edited as topics and time permit.
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