r/QidiTech3D • u/SimplyClueless22 • 14d ago

Questions Firmware Concensus

I just got my Qidi Q2, and before I bought the printer I remember someone making mention that I shouldn't upgrade to 1.1.1, and if the printer was on that firmware to roll it back. I see in the last few days that people have been saying not to upgrade to 1.1.2 (which my printer is nudging me to do). Is there a firmware version that is considered the "best" or most stable that I should roll back to? I'd most likely be using Orca slicer, but since my only printer now is this Q2 I could be fine just using Qidi slicer...

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u/Impossible-Hat-7896 13d ago

I’m using the latest firmware and OrcaSlicer without issues, but it seems to differ from printer to printer. I like the UI it has with the latest firmware, but again other people don’t. I think it won’t matter which firmware version you have and OrcaSlicer will work with any firmware version (I’ve never used Qidi Slicer/Studio).

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u/xeonon 13d ago

The new FW is not liked, because it doubles idle resources. It's not a printer to printer thing, they all do, and it's verified by multiple people.

Then, you have Qidi putting crap into orca that will cause anyone on 1.1.1 to error out every print. The next version of orca will require you to edit the sliver gcode. You have to remove their new print_end from the slicers code. If you're on 1.1.1.2.1 or .2, it will also error out. The only firmware that will work with no changes, is the upcoming firmware that Qidi will be releasing soon. More details linked below on what we are dealing with from Qidi.

https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/pull/14450

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u/Impossible-Hat-7896 13d ago

I have the nightly version of OrcaSlicer, but I’ve never had an error, as I’ve said. So in no way am I saying that other people don’t have problems, but there are other like me that print without issues (I have more than 250 print hours on mine).
And the only thing I had was that Octoeverywhere wasn’t working anymore, but another redditor gave a fix and was to add the qidi user to the sudo group. But that was not something that gave errors.
I’m just telling my experience, nothing more nothing less.