So I have a little engraver I have been playing with while deciding what to get better, picked it up on FB Marketplace. It’s a Smernit S3 (company seems to have folded)
It has an MKS DLC32 v2.1 board. The original firmware was V2.20 (8M.H35.20220905) and it would not connect to wifi no matter what. I read that was corrected in V2.30. I thought I could update the firmware then just put the correct parameters back using the text file. Smernit seems long gone so I flashed firmware from a Longer Ray5 because it was the same board and looked super similar… before that I did $$ in Lightburn and save the parameters, then put those back using the cfg file on the microsd card.
Well Wifi works great, but now the machine crashes the Y axis when homing… you can manually push the limit switch and the machine is simply not reading it… it was working fine before the firmware update so it seems unlikely to be the switch hardware… also, the laser will not fire.
I’m now learning that the firmware is more like Marlin for 3D printers and has to be compiled with certain parameters actually internal to the firmware file…
Is there anything at all I can do at this point? I have tried pretty much everything in the cfg file that could make a difference, but that was all saved and put back identical to before anyway?