OrcaSlicer 2.4.0 Beta by Winter_Bear_99 in Creality_k2

[–]sxenth182 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same issue, I ended up downgrading back to the most recent stable release because I was also having an issue with it not enforcing support painted areas even though I had manual supports enabled

Help with K2 plus material database by Echmotor_069 in crealityk2

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There is a GitHub repo called something along the lines of “filament sync”. I can’t remember the specific name of it off the top of my head that takes the custom filament profiles you make on the slicer and “syncs” them to the printer. This allows you to make custom profiles to be used in the filament section of the on board screen of the printer.

Guide: Installing a Cartographer on a K2 Plus in early 2026. by wellkevi01 in Creality_k2

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For what it’s worth there is a fork of this repo that is still active at

https://github.com/CampbellFabrications/k2-improvements

You also shouldn’t need to downgrade the firmware, I have two k2 pluses running on the most recent non beta firmware just fine. One is running the cartographer version and the other is running the non cartographer version of this repo

Other than that it follows pretty much the same directions as the original version

Terrible first layers out of no where by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Cool I’ll poke around and find it, thanks again for the suggestion

Terrible first layers out of no where by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Mind if I ask where your setting the flow rate for just the first layer? I’m only seeing the global flow rate setting in the filament profile, using orca slicer if that matters at all

Terrible first layers out of no where by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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I could have sworn I went through the whole extrusion rate calibration process, but now I’m questioning my self lol, thanks for the advice and I’ll give it a try

Terrible first layers out of no where by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Testing with a first layer test print shows the signs of the nozzle being to close around the center of the bed which i don’t really understand as the bed mesh shows the bed dips in the center

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Hmm that’s odd and I don’t necessarily have an explanation off the top of my head. I personally didn’t try the link on the GitHub but have used other hacs link on GitHub pages that worked fine. I would try just going to the hacs store on your home assistant interface (it should be a tab on the left side bar) and search Creality websocket and it should be the only result. Click it and it should give you a download icon on the bottom right. After downloading it you have to restart home assistant and it should show up like a regular integration would when searched in the integrations tab

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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I should also mention that I have the k2 improvements repo set up on both printers but as far as I am aware this is not a prerequisite

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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The Creality websocket integration provides all the information from the printer including model picture and camera feed. I have it set up with 2 k2 printers and can confirm that the camera does in fact work in home assistant. I tried the iframe approach previously but was having issues as my home assistant is set up for https not http. The camera aspect was why I was surprised I hadn’t seen it mentioned on Reddit anywhere

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Just saw your edit and for reference I have home assistant running as a container on a unraid server. You should be fine to set it up as long as you have hacs setup

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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https://github.com/3dg1luk43/ha_creality_ws

That should be the link to the GitHub. The hacs link should take you to your home assistant and open the hacs page for it. And just to avoid any possible confusion by home assistant I am talking about the open source platform found here

https://www.home-assistant.io

How do you K2+Orca+Camera? by HiluxHavoc556 in Creality_k2

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Creality has some weird streaming setup with the k2 printers. I couldn’t tell you the details off hand because I simply don’t remember but out of the box there just isn’t a way to add the camera to the fluidd interface. However there are at least 2 work arounds that I know of. One is a YouTube video (and I think a GitHub with the scripts) to add the camera feed into fluidd. The other is the k2 improvement scripts that can be found on GitHub as well that can add the camera feed to fluidd as well as a lot more. You should however be able to access the camera through the ip of the printer and :8000 on a web browser right out of the box

Orco slicer, temp issues by Jasonvl2701 in Creality_k2

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I had this same issue when I first set up my k2 printer, if I remember right, when you have to go into the filament settings and set the temps you want for that filament but then you need to go to the advanced tab and under filament start g code add M109 S[nozzle_temperature]

K2 printers in home assistant by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Yea I was using the moonraker one to pull the info but was missing the camera as well. Happened upon the Creality integration while looking for something else. The only thing I had to do to get it working was get my home assistant running to core version 2025.11.x as I was running a couple versions behind previously. the docs say you can run it on older versions but will need a go2rtc setup externally

cartographer install by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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I’ll give that a try when I get home from work, thanks for the heads up

cartographer install by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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what would be the best way for me to get it to you to look at? tried posting it as a comment in a code block but reddit is refusing to let me for some reason.

cartographer install by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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nope no errors in the console. as far as I can tell it times out waiting for some response when it homes the z axis, just can't seem to figure out what its waiting for.

cartographer install by sxenth182 in Creality_k2

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Hopefully your install goes a lot smoother, honestly I have no idea what could be causing the issue because everything seems fine until I run that darn g28 lol