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Klipper Homing Timeout Issue

Prompt

This prompt applies to all commands on this page
  • 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

  • Error Message: Error during homing z: Communication timeout during homing

  • The homing timeout issue mostly occurs during the Z-axis homing process in multi-mcu setups (X, Y also occur, but with lower probability).

  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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

  • To view the timeout time in the Klipper code, execute the following command.

    grep "TRSYNC_TIMEOUT =" ~/klipper/klippy/mcu.py
    • It will normally output the following content (if the timeout time has been modified, it will output the modified time).

      TRSYNC_TIMEOUT = 0.025
  • 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.