Klipper: Skr 1.4 flashing issue

[Ducati87]

Hello guys, I'm trying to flash the bin file on my skr 1.4 but without success.
The file bin is on the SD card but when I power it up, marlin boot up.
Is there a way to flash it?
Thank you

[klipper-gitissuebot]

Hi @Ducati87,

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[th33xitus]

Did you rename the file to firmware.bin ?

[Ducati87]

Did you rename the file to firmware.bin ?

Yes of course

[Ducati87]

Any suggest?

[Gomer05]

Hi @Ducati87 I have a SKR 1.4 Turbo, that just arrived the other day. It had Marlin 2.0.3 installed from the factory,
Here are the steps that I followed to get Klipper running. Pretty much followed the docs.

1. built from master branch
   Make sure todo a "make clean", specially if you tried several make menuconfig/make
   I was switching between two different boards and had issues if I didn't run the "make clean"
2. "make menuconfig" and selected:
   Micro-controller Architecture (LPC176x (Smoothieboard))
   Processor model (lpc1769 (120 MHz))
   [] Target board uses Smoothieware bootloader
   [] Use USB for communication (instead of serial)
   Exit and save
3. "make"
4. used the SD card that came with the board. Put it in my Linux machine and copied ./out/klipper.bin to the root of the card as firmware.bin
   The file was 20Kb in size: 20 -rwxrwxr-x 1 mark mark 20140 Sep 26 17:14 ./out/klipper.bin
5. put the card in the board and powered it up over USB.
6. after afew seconds I had this in the kernel logs showing that the board was now running klipper:
   [294691.069044] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
   [294691.222829] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d50, idProduct=614e, bcdDevice= 1.00
   [294691.222833] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
   [294691.222835] usb 3-4: Product: lpc1769
   [294691.222838] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: Klipper
   [294691.222840] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 0690000F68944BAF5AA07D5DC22000F5
   [294691.224467] cdc_acm 3-4:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
7. Was able to start klipper and connect to the mcu successfully.

One to check is to make sure the .elf file looks good, you can do:
"file out/klipper.elf" mine looked like:
out/klipper.elf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, with debug_info, not stripped

[klipper-gitissuebot]

It appears the Klipper log file was not provided.
I'm closing this now, sorry. Feel free to attach the log to this ticket sometime in the future, or create a new issue once you can provide the log file.

[ricochet1k]

For those coming after me seeing this issue as a guide to configure the board, note how the "smoothieware bootloader" part is in italic. That's because there are * in between the [], which gets read as italic. It should look like this:

Micro-controller Architecture (LPC176x (Smoothieboard))
Processor model (lpc1769 (120 MHz))
[*] Target board uses Smoothieware bootloader
[*] Use USB for communication (instead of serial)