Good day, forum!
Few days ago become happy owner of Sovol Zero, and ready to share some tips i came thru.
First, as all figured out already, that M3x16 screw for filament sensor a really short. Without shim it possible to attach it, but as i understood main point of mounting was to have sensor moving freely in all dimensions. So M3x20 really a help here.
Second. I tried to boot with ‘wifi.cfg’ file for something like 10+ reboots.. And no chances. Watched youtubes - few peoples have issues but on 3+ reboot it works for them.
So i wired it up by ethernet, and goes to SSH.
Found a bunch of created wifi profiles (duplicates with suffixes) in NetworkManager folder, so it seems script that read wifi.cfg are working. I have a MikroTik hAP ax3 with custom Mesh configuration, maybe it need more tweaks.
Here in config i changed key-mgmt process to WPA (i got WPA2-PSK in router).
And after few more forums i found this block that need to be added to NetworkManager config:
I can’t get WiFi to work with my SV08 or my Zero, so I use a WiFi bridge plugged into the printer’s Ethernet port. I hope Sovol doesn’t start making printers without an Ethernet port. If I had a larger print farm, I’d probably run an Ethernet cable from my 5G router to the farm and use a 24 port switch to run Ethernet to all of the printers. WiFi is handy but it still isn’t as stable and reliable as a wired LAN connection.
I do hope that Sovol is reading this forum and uses the information provided above by @neraveran to make WiFi work out of the box for a larger percentage of their customers. I’m 0 for 2 on WiFi on my Sovol printers and I was too lazy to make WiFi work when I could just plug in a WiFi bridge.
It would be interesting to poll users of the Sovol forum, presumably a bit more tech savvy and motivated than the average Sovol customer, to see what percentage had WiFi work without problems, were able to get it working with a little effort, were able to get it working with quite a bit of effort, or gave up and use Ethernet or transfer files on a thumb drive.
From comments I’ve seen under YouTube videos, I wouldn’t be surprised if more than half of the Sovol printers that nominally have WiFi aren’t using WiFi because it doesn’t work. There is definitely room for Sovol to work on the problem to improve their customers’ user experience.
Well, lets try debug a little bit then?) Less cables to 3dPrinter is better, i think.
I tried to find all commands that i used to make it work, but they missed in bash history somehow. I was checking both wifi configuration ways, /etc/network/interfaces manual configuration, and then some iwconfig settings, and more, but main one that works is NetworkManager.
I had here a tons of duplicates of MyWiFi connection. Removed them as files from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and then edited config itself, as mentioned in first message.
One point i forget, after i edited connection - i launched actual connection process. Dont know does NetworkManager do it automatically or really need to enable manually, but this command: