Sehr hilfreich, Daniel. It's amazing how the available instructions for flashing Marlin are so fragmented. You find a piece here, another one there. You really streamlined the process for me.

Funny, i've used your previous video on installing Marlin to the Anet A8, and now here i am again. Best explanation as always, thanks!

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

So many people needed this since there are no videos on the anet A8 plus Marlin 2.0 install. Thanks again for all you do.

@Nuttavoot

3 жыл бұрын

Do you need to upload bootloader for A8 plus ?

@ujang0711

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nuttavoot What do you find about this? Does the A8 Plus need a bootloader?

@Nuttavoot

3 жыл бұрын

@@ujang0711 I don't know before whether A8 PLUS needs to upload bootloader or not but I know now that it doesn't.

@ujang0711

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nuttavoot Alright. Good to know that it doesn't need it. Thank You!

@Nuttavoot

3 жыл бұрын

@@ujang0711 But I flash the Firmware via Octoprint.

Watched several videos so far since I recently acquired an Anet 8. Some info here has already gotten a little out of date but there is enough here I was able to figure everything out and work around my issues. Thanks so much!

Man, Thank you very much for all your help, I would like to let you know that what you are doing is really important and help us a lot, keep going!!!

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@jadcasen8995

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm pretty randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?

Followed this and your firmware upgrade video - took a while but now I don't have a rampant fire hazard on my hands. Thank you :)

@lecobra418

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you also have to remove the hotbed connector and change the power supply to a more robust one or to a computer ATX to really reduce the fire issue to a minimum.

Another great vid, hopefully will be able to install this on my anet a8 soon, this vid make the process seem a lot easier now

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

😃

I was bricking this upgrade, I bought an AM8 a few months back with a fault on the board I managed to gt it printing PLA find without a heated bed then found another a8 and got the board from that. No bootloader (note it was from the wooden frame one not the acrylic) managed to follow this and get it updated I just wanted to thank you mate I know you'll probably never see this but this has helped me so much.

I love your vides so much!!!! you make the best A8 content on youtube!!! thank you!!! much love from Brazil!!!

This was a Journey for me. Thank You for the help. I ordered two USBasp devices and was unable to update the bootloader. Finally ordered a set of M to F jumper cables for arduino and updated the booatloader using the GPIO pins on a raspberry pi and avrdude and the 10 pin ribbon cable to the board. Successfully loaded the boatloader that way. Just came back to watch the video as a reminder of how to use VScode for firmware. I am almost up and running.

Thank you Daniel. Finally I updated my bootloader (in my Anet A8 motherboard v1.7)with arduino for the first time with Optiboot and then the Marling firmware 2.0.5.3. I followed you step by step, It was awesom the way you can explaing the steps to do. Cristal clear. I also took a 10uF capacitor from an older power supplay. I feel so good. Thank you very much. Now I have to update my Anet A8 motherboard v1.5 wish me luck ;-)

Thanks a lot, dude!! Your tutorials are awesome and helped me get the job done!! Thanks again!!!

@Crosslink3D

3 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks Daniel, another very helpful video!

i really needed it, thanks a lot!

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Great to read you liked it! If you have ideas for other topics I should cover, just ask me to make a video about it.

Hi Daniel happy to see you back my German friend :)

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Steeve, thanks for being part of the community!

Hi Daniel, thanks so much for these videos. i have successfully installed bootloader and upgraded to marlin from knowing nothing thanks to you. but now i have the problem that none of my endstops work, have i missed something. Thanks again for these easy to follow vids My board is A1284 base

@ianmccrea1729

4 жыл бұрын

Complete noob! , sorted it by reversing endstops in marlin

3 years later you save me, thanks bro

You are great man! Thanks for all the help :)

@PMcDFPV

4 жыл бұрын

Oh would this apply to AM8 as well if you dont mind me asking ? thanks !

Thank you so much for this detailed and great Video! My Anet A8 is no working with the latest Marlin 2 and Mesh Bed levelling.

Another great vid, hopefully can around to installing marlin soon on my anet a8, this vid makes it seem easier to do now

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Great!

This is an awesome video. Worked for me and I use Linux Mint (VSC and all those extensions work fine on the linux version). I have one of the CTC A8 clones made out of plywood and it works surprisingly well. I have some experience flashing atmel atmega microcontrollers so already have a USBasp programmer and was able to hook that up and dump off the existing flash, eeprom and fuse bit settings incase I needed to revert. Upload in VSC failed and I flashed it using the USBasp. I then tried to flash the optiboot bootloader but it seemed to overwrite the fw so I just reflashed it again using USBasp. Maybe Marlin 2.x is getting to big for the 128Kb in the atmega1284p? Its late in the day so did not have a chance to test the fw yet. Just read the comment below about the bugfix branch; maybe need to do another build tomorrow?

Nice vid. :-) Very in depth and direct. I really like the fact that you continue to improve on the anet a8. It is actually a great machine. Once it gets an overhaul and a personality. ;-)

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ossi andreasen!

Thanks. You were a big help!

This is great, can I flash my Ramps 1.4 using this method or do I need to change something? Sorry it's over a year since I last done this and I'm currently thinking about flashing this as I'm having problems so might as well start from scratch

A big thank you. With Arduino ide i cannot make the 5 buttons panel to work on lcd. Now with vscode + Platformio, marlin 2.0.8 works great. Many thanks from France !!!!!

Thank you for your guide, very precise and clear. I had the issue of the bootloader on my Anet A8 (board version 1.5) but I solved without installing it again with Arduino or something else. Because of the different baud rate of the processor you have to modify the 'update_speed' parameter in the 'platform.ini' file. My processor is ATMEGA1284p, so I went to all the profiles that use this type of processor in 'platformio.ini' (it's written in there, simply look for it) and wrote 'upload_speed = 57600' in EVERY profile that use ATMEGA1284p. With this little adjustment I was able to load Marlin without any issue. Give it a look, perhaps make a video for it because it can really help people. Cheers!

@brianfrank4156

3 жыл бұрын

This information is great! I had the same problem with the Anet A6 board. The following code was able to fix it, thank you very much! # # Sanguinololu (ATmega1284p) # [env:sanguino1284p] platform = atmelavr extends = common_avr8 board = sanguino_atmega1284p upload_speed = 57600 board_upload.maximum_size = 126976

Big thanks.... really really really... just finished that (with the "using an UNO as an ICSP to flash bootloader" part, because I'm a part of the 10% guys that don't have bootloader) at 1h30 in the morning... I can go to bed with happy thoughts....

Yes, I would like that too, like Armando Krulc, I cannot get it done on my Anet A6 to activate automatic bed leveling

thanks for your good videos 👍😊

Thank you for the great video. I have Anet A6 that I have used very little. Recently I started experimenting with PETG filament and the stringing issues were horrible no matter what adjustments I did. As a last resort I started to look into firmware side, would there be an upgrade to help me. It turns out that yes there is, my printer is now running Marlin 2.0.5.3 and no more stringing issues. It turns our that for some reason retract never worked with the original Anet firmware but as I'm new to 3D printing I never realized that. Mesh bed leveling is also great. It's feels almost like I have a new printer now!

Hi i have a big issue with the 3d printer. My extruder stepper driver gets Breaking idk why that its only my extruder stepper driver is it a good idea to use a Arduino mega because a Arduino is really strong do you think the same? Could you maybe make a video to make that

terimakasih banyak mr daniel..... semoga bertambah banyak subscriber nya.... melimpah berkah dan rejeki... panjang umur dan sehat selalu buat mr daniel salam saya pecngguna anet a8 auto level dari indonesia.... god bless u mr daniel

@Crosslink3D

3 жыл бұрын

english only please

Hola! Espero que el traductor de Google haga su trabajo En primer lugar felicitarte de nuevo por tu canal, nos ha servido a muchos para dejar a punto nuestras Anet A8 (Anet AM8 ya en mi caso) En segundo lugar, el error que comentas al subir el firmware por algún problema con el bootloader, en realidad puede solucionarse si en lugar de utilizar Visual Studio para cargar el firmware en la impresora utilizas Arduino (como se ha hecho siempre, cargando la placa madre de Anet 1.0).

Thank you so much for your videos. I am trying to upgrade my brother's Anet A8 printer and I want to add a touch sensor and a new LCD with rotary knob and SD card. Could you please upload your latest configuration.h file with the latest Marlin 2.0 firmware? It would be great help.

Hi Daniel, I love your work and sorry if this has been asked many times already. I want to use the Anet A8 Board with BL touch and ABL for a project I am working on plus with SD card still enabled. I have tried to disable a few features in Marlin but still seem to be over the threshold. I know you mentioned you provided an example code that we can compare to see what menu features you have disabled, but apart from SD cars, are there any others that make a significant difference, enough to provide room for ABL?

Thanks for this Video. I was able to successfully install 2.0. QUESTION: When I hit Auto Home, the print head moves too left and too forward from print bed. How do I make these adjustments?

In visual ode nothing shows as anet a8 did you do something in between not covered in the video cause I feel i'm missing a step

Great vid. But how do you install the capacitive sensor on the anet a8 plus? With marlin 2.0

Hi Daniel, I came to upgrade my anet a8, it was a very useful and well explain video, I liked it a lot. I only want to note one thing the PLA it´s NOT biodegradable in nature and it´s rarely recicle by compannies, it´s sad because it would be something good for the envieroment, but once again the companies trick us. CNC Kitchen made a video about this topic if you are interested.

OK, great video. Following steps, though it keeps choosing to sanguino1284p for environment in visual Studio code and failing for ANET A8. I have a ANET A8-L, some would call it ANET A6-L (has 5 button LCD 2004). any suggestions?

Hi! I really enjoyed your video but have a problem. When I uploaded the final Marin build, my display screen remained blank. The upload went through, but the firmware was still blank. I have an Anet A6 that has a bootloader (just installed it). Thanks for the help!

Great video and very helpful. I have a problem, the function to change filament in the LCD Display don’t appear. So I’m not able to change the filament. If you can help me with this issue I will appreciate.

thanks Daniel! now is all ok!

I'm getting an error after hitting the "upload" button for the first time. "Error: Please specify 'upload_port' for environment or use global '--upload-port' option." Any ideas on what to do from there? I've unplugged the usb and swapped ports, etc, but shouldn't it be auto detecting the usb port?

Hi, I would like to start with a thank you for your help and Information I have received when watching your videos. I would like to ask a question about the anet a8 plus. I was following your marlin 2 upgrade for the anet 1.7 board and it went wrong. I flashed it and it seemed to take it ok. When I went to reboot it I get nothing on the screen and no lights on the board. I messed up I thought the mains power was on but after the flash the main cable was not in the printer and it was powered with the usb. The board is getting correct power to all the voltage test points. I think this has damage a stepper driver but none have any physical damage. My question is would you recommend replacing the main board with another anet 1.7 or one of the bigtreetech ones.

life saver! Thanks a lot!

Hello, in the last version of the Marlin, architecture is no longer is seen as atmega1284p, but there are atmega1280 and atmega2560. Is there any difference between them?

Thanks for the video. By any chance can you share how to do the upload from a mac running big sur? I've been struggling with that since the os upgrade. (I don't have other machines) thanks

@Crosslink3D

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I can't. Don't have a Mac running that software and it cannot be updated anymore. Maybe later this year if I get a chance to get a new machine

i can not get the anet boards to show up in the list i did everything you said and nothing, does having the IDE setup for doing firmware on other boards like the Melzi 2.0 or RAMPS make a difference cause i can do firmware on them plus my ender no issues but need to get my new board working the right direction, Thanks

Thank you so much for this step by step video. Now my house won't burn down because of my printer firmware.

@Crosslink3D

3 жыл бұрын

That's the most important thing!

Many thanks for this video. I have one issue with the uploading to the Anet E12, I get this error messages PackageManager: Installing tool-avrdude @ ~1.60300.0 Error: Detected unknown package 'tool-avrdude' Can you help me?

Daniel, do you know perhaps what happened to the Marlin Configurator application? It seems to be abandoned (last version is from 2018), but functional. It's very comfortable. Anything speaks against using it?

You don't have to burn your bootloader if you use the ide way, just verified after trying the the visual studio:) now i can procrastinate more on buying the adapter!

Great quality content, thanks. Question - will this process work for the A6 using the relevant .h files? Am upgrading the stock board to v1.7 also. Thanks

@Crosslink3D

2 жыл бұрын

It should work, yes

Tanks a lot man!

awesome! thank you so much! now i need to go back to 2.0.x on my anet and figure out the BL touch. i was having some major issues with that combination. i would love to be able to figure out Mesh Bed Leveling with BL Touch. Daniel, what do you think would be a good inexpensive 32bit board for Anet A8? or is there an alternative 8-bit board that has more memory?

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

For 8Bit boards, there is the ones which have an Arduino Mega 2560, which have 256KB. For example the MKS Gen 1.0 or the Trigorilla. If you are looking for an inexpensive 32Bit board, maybe check out the SKR 1.3.

@williamdam1891

4 жыл бұрын

@@Crosslink3D Do you think you could do a video of installing the skr 1.4 on the anet a8? :)

Thank you for your detailed and easy to follow explanations......I am new to 3D printing as my children clubbed together and bought me a CTC A13 (Ender 3 Clone) for Christmas..... it has a Anet v1.5 main board and I would like to update the firmware to Marlin. My problem is I cannot find any CTC A13 configurations in any of the CTC or Anet folders.......Can anyone point me in the right direction please???

Does anyone know what changes would need to be made to adapt this to the anet A6? I know the boards are/were the same, I believe the print area would be different and the lcd screen is different. Not sure if any other changes would need to be made.

Thank you Daniel

Hi there, thank you so much for your videos, i watched them a lot and upgraded the software to marlin 2 with your help. But there is one problem, when i turn on the printer it automaticly starts to pre-heat the heat bed to 90 degrees and also stays on when the print is done, i don't want that. In Cura 4 is a option to pre-heat the bed, but that is turned off, on the printer itself is also a option to cooldown the bed, but does not respond. Do you know how to solve that? Help would be much apreciated!

hi a got an anter 8 plus, when im trying to opload with vs-code i got this error? Error: Please specify `upload_port` for environment or use global `--upload-port` option. For some development platforms it can be a USB flash drive (i.e. /media//) *** [upload] Explicit exit, status 1 anny idea what i need to do?

Hi Daniel🙋‍♂️ I wanted to ask that does it work for Anet AM8 too?

I have an Anet 8 with a V1.0 board. If it has a pre-installed bootloader can i still flash it to marlin 2.0? From the arduino IDE?

Hi, i knows its been a while since you posted this, but i was wondering how you get visual studio to choose the correct com port?

will this work with the ramps board? my printer is using an arduino mega as the brain with the ramps shield. edit 1: I got it working but it's showing me an error about some sanguino1284p failure, what does this mean? it's giving me an option to build, upload, or clean up this error. which to I select?

Thanks Daniel :)

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to make these videos 😁

Hi Daniel, update my A8+ today to latest marlin2… all seems to be ok, only the two fan go 100% at power-on but lcd show 0%. If set fan speed >0% in lcd setup then back to 0% fans stop. How set this to default? Thanks

how is it going i really hope you get this fast but i mite need your help cause im updating it right now and im going to find out for myself if i need to set the nozzle in the center and im going to need you help with that

I just uploaded V2.0.61and tried to enable mesh bed leveling but it is too big. And I can't go back and find the old version 2.0.0 that Daniel used. Any ideas of what I can remove from latest version or where I can get the 2.0.0 configuration files?

I recently bought Anet A8 and have V 1.7 board Is there any method to upgrade to Marlin firmware(1.1.9 or 2.0) without any USBasp, tinyISP and adapters. I have just the uploading cable and board.

I get an error code when building that states my config file is too new for the version of Marlin that I am using. where can I find the appropriate files?

@Crosslink3D

2 жыл бұрын

When you download the configs from GitHub make sure you have selected the same Marlin release Tag as for the source codes.

Please help!!! When i install Marlin, which i have never installed it before, screen freeze with note " EEPROM Version Error Initialize EEPROM" ? I followed every step. Thanks.

Can you do a short video on installing firmware on a blank board (anet a8 plus) from allieexpress?

Amazing vide, thank you so much. I have a question. May this work with an Anet ET4?

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

Currently there seems not to be any configuration available for the ET4 in Marlin: github.com/MarlinFirmware/Configurations/tree/import-2.0.x/config/examples/Anet

So hopefully I didn't mess something up. but I tried to do this with VSCode over USB and got the same boot loader issue you showed at 8:18, so I opened it up in the Ardunino IDE and compiled it and uploaded it via USB there and had no issues. It says I am running 2.0.6 now. It was too late at night when I got done so I haven't had time to try any prints with it.

Hi, I have Anet A8 board Melzi 2.0 v5. display anet LCD 2004 tell me how to flash and where to get the firmware! thanks to all

What is the SD card feature? My A8 already reads from microusb by default, is this something different with an adapter to read a normal sized SD card ? I've used extension flex ribbon cables for SD card and they have all failed due to errors during print.

Hello, The Sanguino1284p failed on the compile. Is that a problem? Oh Anet a8 Plus

Hello, is that Anet e16 is similar to A8? can i use same Marlin config to install on my anet e16?

THX, I needed this. Much easier then the Adrino stuff. Only thing is my "change filament" command is no where to be found?? How do I get it back? What G-code needs to be enabled? Your videos are great THX again WB P.S. running Anet A8 pro

@leonardocrivelli7405

4 жыл бұрын

i have the same problem, have you an answer?

Great video, but why is it I don't see any of your update videos suggest or give instruction to backup the existing code first? Backup and restore are the only safety net if something goes wrong.

Great video and so clearly presented. I have a question for my setup so hope you can advise. I connect to my Anet via wifi and Octopi. Octopi has an extension that says I can flash my firmware but I need a hex file to do that with. I cant work out how to save the compiled sketch as file on my PC. Is this even possible with VSC? Of course I may be way off target here as really the only immediate reason to upgrade to 2.0 is because I have a new hot end E3D V6 that uses a different thermistor tan the standard Anet A8 hotend and I dont think there is anyway to change the thermistor model in the firmware without flashing a new version. Probably very naive questions but hope you can advise.

@MarcW

4 жыл бұрын

The file you want is now called 'firmware.hex' found in \Marlin-2.0.x\.pio\build\sanguino1284p

I'm new to this, let me see if I get this right, I tried to flash the Marlin 2.0.7.2 on my Anet A8 1.7 board but I got "a few out of sync" errors, so this should mean it doesn't come with a bootloader. If so this means I need to flash a bootloader with Arduino IDE and a USBASP and then flash the Marlin firmware through USB with Visual Studio Code?

Great video I managed to put marlin V2.0.7.2 in my Anet A6 but I don’t know if it is normal when I hit home my extruded goes to the left corner en push down my bed as far as he can

@vintagehomecomputer2536

3 жыл бұрын

I managed it to work on a anet A6 with marlin 2.0.7.2 but the last part auto level I can’t add because of low space. I have opti bootloader on it but can’t see in platformio that he would see more space. Als tried it in Anduino IDE then I get a lot of timer errors just to let you all know hard to use on a anet original board

A few years ago I already loaded the Marlin 1.1 on my A8, does that mean it already has a bootloader or is the bootloader a new method to enable more memory for the larger Marlin 2 ?

Hi Daniel, I think this is changed now for Anet A8, if I use the Marlin Auto Build Extension a Long Red Sign comes up telling me to use a specific environment, then if you click the platformio button on the left it gives you various environment options, I suspect for the Anet A8 optiboot it would be the Melzi optimised ? would you know, in Arduino the board options were Anet 1.0 & Anet 1.0 optiboot, so what are the corresponding settings in platformio, your right it is getting really confusing, I have had to move onto my Macbook from Windows to use the Bugfix branches of Marlin. Thanks

Ok, I’m trying this with an Anet A6. I get an error in the src\module\motion.ccp 151;16 homing feedrate xy was not declared in this scope?? Google wasn’t helpful finding this. Any thought what went wrong or what I need to change? Perhaps an older example of A6?

@emmi1286

3 жыл бұрын

same issue here .. add the old data format in configuration.h ~line 1505 // Homing speeds (mm/min) // #define HOMING_FEEDRATE_MM_M { (100*60), (100*60), (6*60) } // old data Format #define HOMING_FEEDRATE_XY (100*60) #define HOMING_FEEDRATE_Z (6*60)

Habe noch den LCD 2004 auf meinem Aber A8. Da ich momentan auch die Probleme wie unten schon beschrieben habe, würde ich gerne ein kleines Displayupdate machen. Welches Display kann ich verbauen? Auch mit dem Ziel die Probleme nicht mehr zu habem

HELP!! Thanks first..but I have a problem with the Z_MIN_PROBE_PIN (the pin number on Anet A8 Board v1.7) it always gives me this error message when compiling the configuration.h file! as I installed an NPN inductive sensor 12 mm with the blue tip into thew min endstop of the Z min original switch, I removed it to use this sensor instead... any help??? The problem is it gives me this nagging message message regardless of the platform I use to flash in the Marlin files : (Z_Probe PIN needs to be defined) what is the number of that PIN? or what seems the mistake I am doing? Also, I tired to edit the configuration.h file of Anet A8 but I preferred to contact you first!

if the configuration files aren't specific for the printer, why did you call them specific ? are the re any kind of modifications to do to them ?

In order to install the Marlin 2.0 software, do you need to have installed the previous versions? I'm super new to this and ordered my A8 a couple days ago so I'd like to have all my stuff lined up to upgrade when it gets in.

@Crosslink3D

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's not required to have installed previous versions. You basically wipe everything from the board when you install a new firmware. But be prepared to flash a bootloader before you do this because its absolutely possible that you break the bootloader and so you will have to have the tools at hand anyways.

hello, after installing marlin on my anet A8 I noticed that the navigation in the menu has become very slow, do you have any advice to improve this aspect?

Can I use this guide also to Anet A6 or are there differences ?

This video is really easy to follow. Thank you. I was able to download the bootloader and firmware 2.0.5.3 and visual studio code shows success when I finish. Afterwards, my board flashes D1 LED and screen is white blocks. I've got an anet a6. Anyone know what's going on? The info I find online is ineffective and contradictory.

@junelsvtecturbo777

3 жыл бұрын

This was for anet a8 not a6

I messed up and need to reload software. How do I clear what was generated in Marlin or the platform?

Hi pleas can anyone help is it posable to select a port as mine is auto and select the wring one Thanks

Hi, when using the auto build marlin software and pressing my sanguino1248p failed to install, how might i resolve this?

@MrJuuddss

3 жыл бұрын

i got the same error did you manage to fix it? if so how please?? lol

Isn't thermal runaway enabled by default in the anet a8 plus?

I followed the steps you provided and now my x/-x and y/-y are backwards when I input commands from my Pc but the lcd screen is now blank and cannot be used.

Hi, I have followed the tutorial and tried to build Bugfix 2.00 for Anet A8 but it fails, is this the Microsoft Windows problem ?