Idle_timeout with sonic pad

General Discussion
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Printer Model: Creality Ender 5 Plus
MCU / Printerboard:
klippy (5).log (2.1 MB)
BIGTREETECH SKR MINI E3 V3.0

Hi everyone,

I’ve got 2 Creality Ender 5 Plus upgraded with BIGTREETECH SKR MINI E3 V3.0 motherboards.
The both are connected to a Sonic pad.

When the filament sensor is true, the idle timeout is set to 600, so I edited my start gcode to :

SET_IDLE_TIMEOUT TIMEOUT=43200
When a print start, the console show that the setting is saved :
// idle_timeout: Timeout set to 43200.00 s
But when I remove the filament, the print is cancelled after 10min pause…
I don’t understand why the setting added in the G-code doesn’t work.
It’s also a setting called “pause timeout setting” on the Sonic Pad screen but it’s stuck on 10min, and I can’t edit it.
My start G-code :

M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E5000.00 ;Setup machine max acceleration
M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z10.00 E50.00 ;Setup machine max feedrate
M204 P500.00 R1000.00 T500.00 ;Setup Print/Retract/Travel acceleration
M205 X8.00 Y8.00 Z0.40 E5.00 ;Setup Jerk
M220 S100 ;Reset Feedrate
M221 S100 ;Reset Flowrate
G28 ;Home
M420 S1 Z2 ;Enable ABL using saved Mesh and Fade Height
G92 E0 ;Reset Extruder
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ;Move Z Axis up
G1 X10.1 Y20 Z0.28 F5000.0 ;Move to start position
G1 X10.1 Y200.0 Z0.28 F1500.0 E15 ;Draw the first line
G1 X10.4 Y200.0 Z0.28 F5000.0 ;Move to side a little
G1 X10.4 Y20 Z0.28 F1500.0 E30 ;Draw the second line
G92 E0 ;Reset Extruder
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ;Move Z Axis up
SET_IDLE_TIMEOUT TIMEOUT=43200

E5P08_printer cfg.txt (6.1 KB)

Does anyone already meet this ?

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Add

[idle_timeout]
timeout: 43200

to your cfg.

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I already tried this before but it’s doesn’t work…
I think the Sonic Pad’s settings overtake all.
When I set the timeout on 100sec for exemple, the print is rightly cancelled after 100sec. But if I set the timeout over 600sec, the value is not effective…

How can the .cfg settings overtake the Sonic Pad values ?

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Because the Sonic Pad is an abysmal crap?

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Very kind choice of words… :smiley: But one can’t hide from the truth!

6

So there are no solutions ? :slightly_frowning_face:

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I just know that in Klipper the timeout works as it should. How Creality has messed up this functionality is beyond my knowledge. I would recommend contacting the Creality staff.

And to be honest, I have no intention to dig deeper into it as I think that this product is an overpriced rip-off of gullible customers. Also refer to Creality Sonic Pad and Alternatives

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Thank’s for your answer, I will contact the Creality support; I hope they will patch this soon…