Anet A8 printer does not connect to cura

[Ian64 0]

I can not connect to my anet a8 pritner. In Ponterface the pritner connects but in cura it does not.

 

[GregValiant 531]

With Cura running, select "Market Place" at the upper right of the screen.  When the dialog comes up (it can take a bit of time to load) select "Installed" and scroll down to "USB Printing" and make sure it is checked.

You can also do a search around here for the same topic but with different printers.  The problem does come up once in a while and there might be a couple of other things you can look at.

[Marska52 1]

I solved the problem in my situation. I have Windows 10 and Anet A8 printer.

I looked a Python script:

C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.10.0\plugins\USBPrinting\AutoDetectBaudJob.py

There is a loop where Cura sends "M105" gcode to the printer and waits response.

                while timeout_time > time():
                    line = serial.readline()
                    if b"ok" in line and b"T:" in line:
                        self.setResult(baud_rate)
                        Logger.log(... 
                        serial.close() # close serial port ...
                        return

 

But "ok" and "T:" are not on the same line. That's why the condition never come true. I made a change like that:

                line = b""
                while timeout_time > time():
                    line += serial.readline()
                    if b"ok" in line and b"T:" in line:
                        self.setResult(baud_rate)
                        Logger.log(...
                        serial.close() # close serial port ...
                        return

 

No other change was needed. The connection begun to play.