Firmware v 1.1.5

niallof · May 24, 2023, 3:16pm

My SV06 plus shipped with version 1.1.5 firmware - I misread the date and believed that the firmware on the website was newer so I flashed it and found the current version of firmware on Sovol’s website is older than the shipped firmware. (version 1.1.4 vs 1.1.5).

I have reached out to support via email but have not had any response yet - is there a timeline for uploading the latest firmware and any reason the latest version is not posted online?

I am having some printing issues as well as slicer/g-code weirdness and I would like to rule out old/early firmware as an issue.

Lion · May 24, 2023, 3:38pm

I haven’t seen anyone post anything about a newer Plus firmware.
As far as I know 2.23 is the latest (1.1.4 on the screen).

It usually takes Sovol anywhere from 2 days to a week to answer.
If you join the Facebook group, you might know something today or tomorrow.

niallof · May 24, 2023, 5:29pm

Thanks for the reply - I don’t use facebook unfortunately, support seems to be very hit and miss.
I did get reasonably quick replies regarding my order and ship date etc. but not even acknowledgement of 3 emails on this and other mechanical issues i’ve had with the printer (y-axis stepper misalignement, linear bearings sticking - not just noise but sticking after greasing).

Image of 1.1.5 firmware below.

Lion · May 24, 2023, 6:16pm

I don’t use Facebook either.
I knew there was a Beta version floating around, other then that…I have no info.

Here is a screenshot of mine.

meicalnissyen · May 25, 2023, 12:54am

Dude, that sucks.
email the TH3d dude. can’t vouch for it, but they do play hard with the paltform and have done custom firmware

meicalnissyen · May 25, 2023, 3:06pm

I’m on 1.1.4, shipped from sovol us stock in april iirc.

You might want to look for a marlin export command, Post it to the github

what do you show for extruder esteps an driver currents?

I was pushing a little over, just reset from 691.xx(27)? dropped it to 684.

spannmagoo · May 25, 2023, 6:10pm

2.0.9.2 is the correct firmware they released.

Lion · May 25, 2023, 6:50pm

I didn’t post this the other day because it’s JMO…
Sovol released the firmware right after the pre-orders started.
When beater users started flashing the new firmware they posted that they were still on version 1.1.4. I think all Sovol did was fix the number to 1.1.5 but it’s the same build.
Like I said, this is JMO…but yours is the 1st post I’ve seen that has mentioned having 1.1.5.

niallof · May 25, 2023, 8:47pm

That’s the Marlin version? You can have multiple versions of firware and updates based on the same version of Marlin?

niallof · May 25, 2023, 8:48pm

I calibrated e-steps manually - it was pretty close from factory but I don’t know what it was originally now.

Lion · May 25, 2023, 9:03pm

Both of our pics show Marlin 2.0.9.2.

spannmagoo · May 27, 2023, 3:47pm

If you have 2.0.9.2 you are fine. Wait about a month and the plus will be in the latest Marlin bugfix.

dwtc3d · June 3, 2023, 1:28pm

Could this be the screen firmware version? There is a note about that on the download page
I have 2 Pluses and one has 1.1.4 the other 1.1.5 just got the 2nd one that says 1.1.5

meicalnissyen · June 4, 2023, 11:34pm

I was doing some poking around,…
In the slicer (prusaslicer, the one that does not leave me looking for a baby to punch after 2 minutes)
there is a dropdown for firmware flavor,

marlin legacy is default checked, but a Marlin2 choice avails.

we can use that, yea?

niallof · June 5, 2023, 10:44am

yes it’s marlin 2 for SV06+

niallof · June 5, 2023, 10:45am

It could be - Sovol support came back and said 1.1.4 is the latest version… no more details than that and no explanation as to the difference in what I received from factory. Had to ask several times to get that minimum answer so idk. Maybe a language/localisation varient

Lion · June 5, 2023, 10:58am

There was a video posted from a Facebook user that they were testing a Beta Firmware a while back, most likely this is the mysterious 1.1.5.

DBMandrake · July 1, 2023, 11:11pm

My brand new SV06 Plus (ordered just over a week ago) came with V1.1.5, however I accidentally flashed it down to V1.1.4 as the firmware update on the website only gave a date not a version number, and I stupidly assumed the version on the website would be the latest. (Otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered to flash it)

DBMandrake · July 9, 2023, 7:57pm

Sovol eventually got back to me with a one line reply that wasn’t very helpful but I was able to get a copy of V1.1.5 from here instead:

The V1.1.5 firmware source code is available from Sovol on Github at GitHub - Sovol3d/SV06-PLUS: The fully open source for the SV06 Plus Includes the stl file，step files, firmware source code, icon image for the SV06 Plus. please check sovol3d repository here and I made a decent attempt at compiling it myself using Visual Studio Code but got stuck on one compile error that I couldn’t figure out in the amount of time I was willing to spend on it.

firmwarefactory lets you compile your own firmware from source and has all the compiler toolchains etc set up - however there was already a precompiled V1.1.5 firmware for the SV06 Plus - I’ve been running this version for about a week now and it seems good.

As Sovol didn’t post the firmware on Github until V1.1.5 I don’t know what the actual changes between V1.1.4 and V1.1.5 are, but I do know my printer shipped with V1.1.5.