Klipper Homing Timeout Issue
Prompt
- If you receive an error message like
sed: can't read ~/klipper/klippy/mcu.py: No such file or directory
after executing a command - Or any similar file not found errors (
No such file or directory
) - Please confirm that Klipper is installed and the current user is the user who installed Klipper.
Error Description
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Error Message:
Error during homing z: Communication timeout during homing
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The homing timeout issue mostly occurs during the Z-axis homing process in multi-mcu setups (X, Y also occur, but with lower probability).
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The reason is that Klipper has extremely strict real-time requirements. If Klipper does not receive a correct response from the mcu within
0.025 seconds
, it will consider the homing as a timeout.
Solution
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The
0.025 seconds
in the Klipper code is too stringent and can be appropriately increased to solve the homing timeout issue. -
Execute the following command to directly modify the timeout time in the Klipper code to
0.05 seconds
.sed -i 's/TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = [0-9.]*$/TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = 0.05/' ~/klipper/klippy/mcu.py
- If there is no output after executing the command, it means the modification was successful.
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After successfully modifying, you need to restart the Klipper service for the changes to take effect.
sudo systemctl restart klipper
- If there is no output after executing the command, it means the restart was successful.
Other Commands
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To view the timeout time in the Klipper code, execute the following command.
grep "TRSYNC_TIMEOUT =" ~/klipper/klippy/mcu.py
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It will normally output the following content (if the timeout time has been modified, it will output the modified time).
TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = 0.025
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To revert the modified code, execute the following command.
sed -i 's/TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = [0-9.]*$/TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = 0.025/' ~/klipper/klippy/mcu.py
- If there is no output after executing the command, it means the modification was successful.