On today's episode i'm going to show you how to update the firmware on your Ender
3 v2 not just the motherboard but also the display and if you have an
Ender 3 or Ender 3 pro you can do the same thing by changing
one thing, the motherboard I'll explain it all on today's filament
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in a previous video i did talk about updating the firmware on the v2
and i made a mistake i said you need to rename it firmware.bin
you don't have to as long as it's a different name than the firmware that's
on there you're good to go. so just that dot bin
file on the sd card insert it turn it on and it updates. But the latest creality
version 1.0.1 has some bugs. first off you can't run
my bed level software and also if you try to do any pause to change filament
none of those work because it's missing some of the g-code commands.
well marlin has released a totally updated version
which includes all those fixes but creality hasn't adopted it yet.
but you can get it from my website so I'll show that.
We'll update this machine and I'll show you how you can actually update the
display to the latest firmware as well so let's
go through that right now. I updated my machine to the latest
creality version 1.0.1 and what this did is added the ability
to save your configuration but it doesn't save it to eeprom. Let me
show you. So let's say I want my max acceleration y
to be set to 600 so I go in here I change it to 600
and then after that set 600 i go down to the storage configuration, you click on
there, it beeps and it should save it to the eeprom but
it doesn't. It saves it to the sd card. I'll show you. See I'll turn it off, turn
it back on after removing the sd card go back to that it's back to 500. But if
I put the sd card in because that's where the configuration
was saved turn it off turn it back on it reads that configuration now it's
back to 600. version 1.0.1 also has some g-code
issues if i run my bed level or if you try to
do pause to change filament it's not going to work because it's missing some
g-code here's my bed level it's supposed to
pause right here and let me click the button
but it doesn't it goes to the corner it goes down and then just moves on to the
next point never lets me level the bed but we can fix that with the latest
marlin. I actually include it on my chepclub.com
site there's the link to get to it and what you want to do is download the
marlin latest release this is later than version 1.0.1
you put it on an sd card and there's going to be basically two sections
you're going to have a folder called dwin_set
and the firmware.bin that's all we want on this sd card. shut
off your machine slide in that sd card with those two
files turn it back on and your machine will update. and it's
going to update to this latest version. now if you go down to info it'll tell
you version 0.0.6 but it's got the date, even though it's a
earlier number it's a later version of firmware.
if you update it and everything changes to chinese here's how you fix it.
Go to the second menu item click on it scroll all the way to the bottom you'll
see a cn. click on the knob it'll change the en
and everything will change to english. that's how you fix it. now I did notice
when i went to the control menu the word storage was cut off so I want
to update the display to see if I can fix that. so let me show you how to
update the display. shut power off remove the sd card
and we're going to take that sd card remember had the the folder
the dwin folder? we're going to use that so take the display off
disconnect the wire and there's four screws you need to remove.
so we can get at the sd card that's on the display just take these screws off
and then set those aside because we'll need to put this back together. so I just
dumped them in my hand and set them aside. now the back just
pops off, you got to take the knob off first, and
then you just pull this and it unsnaps and once you get it off you can see
there's an sd card slot. take that sd card and it's actually
going to read that folder that's on here instead of the dot bin
file. just slide it in and now we'll hook up the cable
and then we're going to power this thing up and the display
will update itself from that folder that's on the sd card.
so just flip power on and the display will go black
and then update and then it'll change to a blue and then an orange. it looks
yellow here but it's actually really really bright orange.
now we need to shut power off again and get that sd card out of there because we
don't want to update it again. just push it and it pops out. take the sd card
out and now when we power it up it should be the normal display so power
it up and yep normal display so everything
went as expected. but now let's scroll through and see if
it fixes that word. nope so I'm gonna have to contact them
and have them fix that. that's something in the firmware.
so from here you just pop the cover back on
and then shoot the four screws in and then once those are in
put the knob back on then just connect the electrical connector
and slide it back into the machine. you're all done.
now i want to leave the sd card out because I want to test this new firmware
to see if the storage really works. go to control motion max acceleration
max acceleration y instead of 600 i'm going
to make it 550. now i'm going to save it by clicking on
"orage" configuration. so now it should be saved. I'm going to
shut power off and turn it back on, and remember no sd card,
so now let's go into control motion max acceleration
and 550. so it saved it. It's working. The new firmware is working.
now let's check my bed level. so here it is parked in the first position. I can
come in here with a piece of paper and level it
and then when I click the button it moves to the next spot.
So now I can level each spot and just press the button so the g-code
is now working. This new firmware fixes those issues.
And there you have it my Ender 3v 2 is totally updated. The latest firmware in
the control board and also on the display. I have talked to
the marlin team about fixing the word being cut off hopefully that's
fixed in the future. If you want to help support
marlin because it's basically, they do it for free. So their only support is
through patreon, I'll put a link to their patreon
in the description below you can help support it. Updating your firmware with
an sd card is awesome but what if you got an Ender
3 or Ender 3 pro? Well you have an option big tree tech
released the skr mini e3 a little while ago. This has been
out for a while a lot of people have already installed this on their machines.
it's a plug and play it's the same mounting the same connectors as your
stock ender 3. you put this on but it's 32-bit and you
can update it with the sd card. it's also got a display. An optional
display, which is touch screen you can do the click
and turn but it's touch screen which even the v2 doesn't have that.
I got this set on amazon for 70 dollars I plan to do a video on it it's going to
be out in the near future. But it's really, if you watch my creality
updates with the silent board it's pretty much the same thing only this is
only thirty dollars. It's cheaper than the silent board and it has the silent
drivers on it. So if you have an Ender 3 or Ender
3 pro you can still get the features that the v2 is giving you
and possibly more with a touch screen. So don't go out and buy a v2 just
because you want to update the firmware. Update your Ender 3. So that's it for
this week. If you like what I'm doing here maybe check out some of the other
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