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utkabobr / DuckPro-Kobra3

CFW for Anycubic Kobra 3
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general question about "Printer.CFG" #4

Open weekendkoder opened 1 month ago

weekendkoder commented 1 month ago

Hi.

I am new to Klipper. Just to verify ... is it possible to modify the printer.cfg to my own needs ? As i understand the "printer.cfg" is the main important file, that holds all parameters that are necessary for Klipper. Is that right ?

If we are able to modify the "printer.cfg", do we need to flash the firmware always, when we want to do small changes to something?

By the way, thx for your efforts making kobra3 users more indipendent and free.

bearclaw92 commented 1 month ago

https://www.klipper3d.org/Overview.html

utkabobr commented 1 month ago

No, it's not required to reflash firmware. You can edit that file and click "Save & restart". But you should note that it's not a regular Klipper, it's goklipper - anycubic's heavily modified fork on golang, it could be missing some important features that you want to enable in printer.cfg

weekendkoder commented 1 month ago

@bearclaw92 Thx for the link. I searched inside the site for "printer.cfg" only 2 matches appear. But very specific. Could not find any general description about "printer.cfg". Maybe i miss something...

@utkabobr Okay. Good to know that you dont need to reFlash the FW for every small change. If we want to use the "MainSail" we can connect to the printer via a specific WiFi address, i guess. Like: http://192.168.55.55 (just an example. I got little information about it through internet)

utkabobr commented 1 month ago

Yup, you should get your IP from device's screen. All you need from documentation is https://www.klipper3d.org/Config_Reference.html It's all about printer.cfg, but Kobra-s on klipper are running goklipper, it may behave different in certain ways

weekendkoder commented 1 month ago

Okay. Thanks. Now it is clear to me.

weekendkoder commented 1 month ago

I forgot to ask an other question which is related to printer.cfg. If we want to do changes, we need to unpack "update.swu". Therefore we need a password to unpack it. Do you have it ? And afterwards, if we did our changes, we need to zip the folder again to the file "update.swu". But while repacking, it need to be zipped with the same password, i guess?

bearclaw92 commented 1 month ago

@weekendkoder no you don't need to do any of that. To make changes in printer.cfg just edit via mainsail and then click save and restart. I recommend you make a backup before editing.

weekendkoder commented 1 month ago

Got it. Somehow i missed it, that MainSail is able to do instant editing of files, like "printer.cfg". Yes, i will do backups, before i do some big changes. Thank you for the reminder.