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MKS TFT touch screen includes TFT24/28/32/35/70, which can be connected to the motherboard for control via AUX-1. Support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish and more than 5 languages, and support online language switching ...
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Wifi settings do not 'stick' after flash #381

Closed rlayne closed 4 years ago

rlayne commented 4 years ago

First flash went ok on the MKS3.2 v4.0 via sd card, retro, win8 The wifi chip wasn't installed at the time though, so I installed it, and on next power on the wifi firmware updated. Worked great, the only problem at this point was the wifi didn't take the settings from the config (i.e. I wanted station mode not AP mode) so I decided to reflash thinking that this would fix the wifi settings.

I renamed the original files on the SD card back, and recycled the power. Boot loop. Happens every time I try to flash anything now despite taking the original steps.

Interestingly, I notice the first time I did this the config file name was changed. On subsequent flashes it is not, although the font and pic folders names are changed.

Flashing back to the manufacturers supplied firmware seems to work - disconnected wifi card for sake of simplicity.

From there I can flash back to the desired version, but the Wifi settings specified in the txt file still do not 'stick' when wifi reenabled..

fnhhnxfn commented 4 years ago

hi its pretty simple to set wifi with tft first install mks wifi module then in txt file enable TFT WIFI and select ap or sta it depends on your choice weather you want to connect via router or with hotspot if selected ap then put your wifi name and password
then copy mks32.txt and mks28.bin to your sd card and power on the printer

rlayne commented 4 years ago

hi its pretty simple to set wifi with tft first install mks wifi module then in txt file enable TFT WIFI and select ap or sta it depends on your choice weather you want to connect via router or with hotspot if selected ap then put your wifi name and password then copy mks32.txt and mks28.bin to your sd card and power on the printer

Sorry if it wasn't clear enough, but that is precisely what I was doing.

rlayne commented 4 years ago

I've found a workaround. As mentioned regardless of the settings specified for station mode in the config file, the board wifi reverts to default AP mode no matter what.

However, connecting to the TFT in AP mode via a browser reveals the usual config screen, and setting the WIFI values here does stick after a reboot.

Closing - hope this is useful to somebody.