Shadowman

What version of Ultimaker Cura are you using?

Yes, however, well prior to the firmware release and then after the firmware release SandervG told me that it was. This a big deal for me as such I am fricken disappointed...... followed by; in my opinion; it is “unbelievable”.

Ridiculous....... it is

Correct.... nothing appears to have changed.

I can only share what I know others to have done; simply load the new roll with the feeder latch loose and push the new filament in as if loading an empty Bowden tube. Secure the feeder latch and select continue and it will push the remainder through as used. The only issue I see with this practice is until the material that was left in the Bowden tube is consumed retractions will be a skewed. Having shared this; I would likely remove the material in the Bowden tube and then you will need to feed the new material all the way through the Bowden tube to the Print Core because selecting continue does not feed the filament through the Bowden tube.

Hi SandervG I loaded the new S5 firmware and here are my comments as posted in another thread. ”Ok; I just installed the latest firmware in the S5 and the leds remain “on” even when there is nothing printing. They seem to act exactly as they did prior to the firmware update. While printing the leds are bright relative to the intensity setting you select using the slider. I have the pulse when the print feature turned off and the light to turn off when not printing selected and yet ..... once the print stops the leds continue to glow albeit dimmer than during the printing.”

Ok; I just installed the latest firmware in the S5 and the leds remain “on” even when there is nothing printing. They seem to act exactly as they did prior to the firmware update. While printing the leds are bright relative to the intensity setting you select using the slider. I have the pulse when the print feature turned off and the light to turn off when not printing selected and yet ..... once the print stops the leds continue to glow albeit dimmer than during the printing.

Cool... I appreciate your insight.

Curious; why are you having to clean the feeder? For your information; my S5 stopped a print twice stating that it was out of material when the PVA filament became bound on the spool and could no longer be pushed through the Bowden tube so preemptively I opened the feeder after the print expecting all sorts of dust and chips but it was clean. By the way; have you loaded the new firmware?

Have you confirmed that these lighting options are available on the S5 with the latest firmware? I think they have always been a feature on the 3 and as I recall; you have both. I ask because you could not have the leds completely off before unless you turned the printer off at the switch.

I discussed this long ago with Ultimaker and as recently as yesterday SandervG shared that the led off feature “was” included in the lastest S5 firmware. I have not loaded it yet so unable to confirm. Those that have loaded the latest S5 firmware please share your findings.

Huum... Interesting. In my opinion this is another example of being sold that which was truly not able to be sold. The words “the test results are promising” pretty much says it all. This was a significant part of the S5 story as presented by Ultimaker as such a significant part of what we all paid for. I did not purchase into a development project. Now...... Considering that all of us that are awaiting the aluminum plates are already registered with Ultimaker can I assume that Ultimaker will be preemptively shipping us build plate adhesion sheets immediately? I would add to this that a glass build plate should be included too; very simply because materials/prints requiring build plate adhesion sheets could make those that don’t a pain in the arse to remove as such a stop gap means to swap between two build platforms needs to be shipped. In my opinion, and as much as I appreciate the Ultimaker team throughly testing and making design changes prior to shipping, I purchased Ultimaker’s most advanced thoroughly tested printer (as they marketed it) showing me and speaking of features such as the advanced aluminum build plate as such; this delay makes clear that in part; I/we prepaid for a vision and a hope rather than a relality. Not good; even if only speaking for myself, I purchased the S5 (and I suspect is the case with the others that purchased the S5) did so in a large part, based on the new thoroughly tested features and associated technology. To be very frank; I am troubled by the information as shared as there is an unquestionable and very clear difference between “developed” technology versus “to be developed”. I was told thet the delayed shipment of the aluminum build plate was as the direct result of Ultimaker m’s need to ramp up the production of the aluminum build plates whereas I now clearly understand that there is not a viable “developed” aluminum build plate ready for production and furthermore; no assurances of when or even if it will become a reality. This is the Ultimaker S5 that I purchased; https://ultimaker.com/en/stories/52571-the-ultimaker-s5-is-here

Even without a detailed list, your time spent explaining as you did is appreciated. Thank you

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I understand as I was the same; the first time I let it sit all night concerned that it was akin to a bios reflash.

Relax... Turn the printer off and restart the FW update and you will be fine

Good day SandervG and thank you

Great to read “successful” I will install once this print is completed.

Thank you for the information

Thank you SandervG I just looked at the release notes and do not see the led turn off feature mentioned; you said it would be within this FW; was it simply not listed? Takes care.

Ugh... Having an S5 I remain very interested; please keep us updated. Thank you

Thank you again. I will try it in a few days as I am in the midst of a multi day print. Takes care

As long as the printer is managing the IP address by DHCP it can and often changes during reboot as well as when the DHCP lease expires. In therory when the DCHP lease is renewed it should use the same IP address however, this often does not happen. The lease time can be altered, meaning, extended but the easiest way is to go into the router and do a MAC IP assignment. The purpose for the DHCP lease time is so that roaming devices always have access to your IP address pool. If this did not happen sooner or later nothing could connect because there would be no available IP addresses. In any case; Once you do a MAC IP assignment within the router the DHCP query created by the printer will see this and the printers IP address will remain constant; effectively a static IP address.

We both have made this situation known and in my speaking with others directly some; I dare say all are affected. At least one person has simply deferred to using USB and only visually monitoring; thus option is not acceptable to me on such a printer. I have printers that cost far less that this situation was known from day one hence aceepted.

Well then; you saved me this exercise. For this I thank you bummer