When I received my SV08MAX, the wifi did not detect any networks at all, after a lengthy troubleshooting exercise Sovol sent me a new main board. This new main board did detect the wifi and I was finally able to connect…until about 30 seconds went by and it resets the IP address. It does this over and over. I can get it to print if the file sends over wifi before it resets. I even reflashed the emmc and no change. It cannot stay connected to any wifi network for longer than 30 seconds. Tried fresh flash and different routers, phone tether. 2.4ghz, 5ghz. Everything.
I have wasted so much time trying to get this printer to work properly. Now its out of warranty because sovol dragged their feet, and they took the main board off their website so I cant even buy it. what a joke.
If you have an STLINK adapter, EMMC flash adapter and are willing to take on the configuration burden, the board will run full open source instead of the OS/Klipper fork that SOVOL distributes.
I have my mainboard running on Armbian:Trixie (flash the EMMC with this) and then you will need to flash the mainboard using the STLINK and Klipper/Kalico setup for the stm32h750xx chip. Unfortunately Katapult has not implemented support for this chip/MCU yet.
1st: just because Sovol removed the board doesn’t mean they still wont send you one.
2nd: Sovol is pretty good on helping users with their problems…maybe you should give them a chance before coming here & bashing them.
You can still email them, your ticket has not closed as long as you let them know your still having issues.
I have been emailing them!? Your post is not helpful and neither is Sovol support. Thats why I am reaching out to the community here, sovol products seems to depend on community support just to get basic functionality working. I am still looking for a solution to the wifi reset loops and also the webcam no longer working.
@akara1 With a new main board, you hardware address (MAC) will be different. Check in your WiFi router that the old MAC address is not still being used for the IP the printer is using.
If you manually enter the IP on the printer during setup and now have a different mac, this reconnect, disconnect is one of the symptoms. Hope this helps.
Sorry for the inconveience caused. We will reply the email ASAP. If you don’t buy the accessory in our webiste, you can send the email to info@sovol3d.com. Our after-sales staff will provide the purchase link to you
@cardoc thanks for the link to that extender, I was thinking about this as a solution. It does work fine on ethernet but I am unable to run ethernet to my installation so the extender might work as a solution. @MikeHides this issue persists even across different routers, Ive also connected it to my phone wifi hotspot and it does the same, releasing and then renewing the IP address over and over every 15 seconds.
I am worried this is a software bug baked into the production sovol firmware, and a main board replacement wont fix it. I am using screen 1.0.8 and 2.1.9 main
@mich0111@Blenky@cardoc Like I already said, it does it on any network.
First board would get a very weak signal -90db and reconnect every 15 seconds
second board gets a strong signal to the wifi, and still reconnects every 15 seconds.
antenna replaced as well, new emmc flashed as well.
The Sovol OS is the problem. I’m not the only one having this issue either.
See other people with the same problem here, Where to file issues regarding the operating system?
Not only that, but its hard to read logs on sv08 max because its being filled with garbage.
sovol linux config has hostapd enabled but incorrectly configured so it’s constantly restarting, producing repeating logs like:
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI systemd[1]: Starting Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet…
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI hostapd[11751]: Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI hostapd[11751]: Could not open configuration file ‘/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf’ for reading.
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI hostapd[11751]: Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI hostapd[11751]: Failed to initialize interface
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 23 23:02:23 SPI-XI systemd[1]: Failed to start Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet.
Mar 23 23:02:25 SPI-XI systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2950.
Mar 23 23:02:25 SPI-XI systemd[1]: Stopped Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet.
/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf indeed does not exist. It’s unclear if there’s any reason why hostapd should be enabled in the first place.
every 15 minutes it deletes all but the last 5MiB of journald logs via a cron job running armbian-truncate-logs, even though journald is already configured to retain only 20MiB of logs lmao
Commenting out that script did fix my printers wifi thanks to @mw75!, it’s a software issue in the production sovol software that it seems like they have ignored reports about and chosen not to fix in the past 6 months at least. Why? Does everyone else not have this problem?