Creality K1 K1 Max root access Use Prusa slicer, Klipper, Fluidd, Moonraker like a normal 3D printer

Creality open source launch:

Firmware and Fluidd package download:

MobaXterm download:

My testing Prusa Slicer profile with all 3 fans activated:

Aurora Tech Channel:
My 3D Printer Recommendation List with 7 Printers out of Almost 100 Machines I Have Ever Tested:

Detailed instructions for Linux commands:

1. Login:
username: root
password: creality_2023

2. List the files and the current location (optional):
ls -l (to list the files)
pwd (show the current path)

3. Copy the Fluidd web interface package:

4. Make the install script executable:
cd /usr/data (to change to the directory of the files)
ls -l (list the files)

5. Run the script to install Fluidd:

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[eCliPs]

Thank you for this working profile for Prusa Slicer ! it will help me run my palette 3 pro with the Creality K1 Max !
One small remark about your gcode substitution for the fans: you should use a regular expression to also replace the different speed and not only S255
Find: M106 S([0-9\.]*)
Replace: M106 S${1}\nM106 P1 S${1}\nM106 P2 S${1}
By the way I noticed that Prusa Slicer use M107 to stop the fan and Creality print use M106 S0 so I also added the following substitution (not a regular expression this time):
Find: M107
Replace: M106 S0\nM106 P1 S0\nM106 P2 S0

[GrahamDyer]

Thank goodness for the 'pause' button! Done so fast us mere mortals can barely keep up 😅 But thank you, managed in the end with liberal use of 'pause' and 'rewind'

[LibertyEver]

Kudos to Creality for publishing the open source code in September as promised.
Kudos to Aurora Tech for quickly providing the How To guide to allow K1 users to own and control their 3D printers without the Creality Cloud nonsense. This is the K1 that should have been offered from the start. This makes me much more inclined to buy a K1 Max.

[supercurioTube]

This K1 printer series suddenly became a whole lot more interesting now that it can use the full power of the Klipper ecosystem.

It's also a game changer to know that it's not depending on Creality for updates anymore long term.

[BullishPrints]

This so far has saved my K1 from being offloaded...This whole setup works well with OrcaSlicer as well using the OrcaPrint for the wifi connecting portion...so now I can slice and print to my X1C and K1 from the same slicer...what a time to be alive!
If this slicer completely saves the K1 from being sold to someone willing to deal with Creality BS, then I'm gonna give it a try on the S1Pro that has been a headache from day 1.
Thank you for this! I'm nowhere near this savvy!

[Scriven]

You don't need to type the full path, you can just give relative path:
./<command> will work, not just /full/path/to/<command>

[Mintor]

This actually makes me consider getting K1 over Bambu, with root we can do so much more and fix many shortcomings

[EskilHolter]

personaly i like using creality print, its just easier and faster in my opinion. and you feel way safer

[rich]

You're the awesomest 3D printing guru!

[jeremypalmer]

Excellent, but I made one change:
Under Print Settings -> Output options -> G-code substitutions:
Find: M106 S([0-9]+\.?[0-9]+)
Replace with: M106 S${1}\nM106 P1 S255\nM106 P2 S${1}

This will set the parts fan and side fan to any %, and the case fan to 255. Buy you can modify it any way you like. Then you don't need to force it to 100% as it will take any speed.

Great Job!😄

[Art_Of_Sound]

Always amazing...and your voice is so soothing :-) Great work, have been waiting for this, the only real neg of K1 after sorting the extruder and feed tubing/cable chain

[JohnOlson]

FYI - I had issues with the firmware image when I downloaded the repo as a zip file like you did in the video. If you look at 0:32 in your video after unzipping, the .img file is only 1kb. The repo is using git large file storage. You can either use command line to handle it, or easier to just go to the release folder in the repo, click on the .img file, and then on the page, to the right of the "raw" button, click the download button to download the raw file.

[holziarbeiter]

thanks creality for all the open source how they promised! thabks

[letoxique]

i was quiet sceptical if Creality would really go full open source, but it seems like they actually delivered. Thumbs up and my interest for this machine suddenly gained track again. But there's one thing i'd like to find out: is it possible to update the Klipper installation to stock Klipper or were the binaries somehow modified by Creality? In the past, there have been machines (i think it was Qidi) where updating Klipper to a stock version bricked the machine

[awareaction]

Beyond reviews! Next Level Stuff! Way to go!❤👍👍

[CatofManyFaces]

This helped me install fluidd on my ender 3 v3 ke :)
thank you so much!

[JulioAntillon]

When I try to add the physical printer on Prusa Slicer, I don't see the Mainsail/Fluidd option. Am I doing something wrong?

[heavyjohnny]

Thank you for this video! Can you do a video on how you calibrated the printer settings through Prusa?

[LlvlDOn]

everything done so far as explained, only issue im running into with prusa slicer is it is not showing mainsail/fluidd as a option for host

[justhereforthalolz]

Wow this is cool shit. Having been a sysadmin for the last 35yrs, I live and breath linux console. So even though I have NO idea what I'm doing printer wise, anything that requires console gives me confidence that I can do whatever is needed :D There was nothing difficult about any of the commands you did. But one Can the image be reverted to factory (for example if I wanted to sell the K1 Max, I'd like to be able to reset it back to factory). Is there a factory image anywhere?