Calibration madness

You need to be able to get to the serial console (not over wifi).

You can us Luban and the USB cable for this if thats easier (its what i use despite having ocotoprint)

I have two Macros i use in Luban to make this easy on me, but you can also manually type them in the serial console.

My start macro looks like this:

G28 ;Home
G1029 P11 ;Set auto-level mesh to 11x11
G1029 S ;Save auto-level mesh configuration
G1029 A ;Start auto-leveling

you run these commands, wait for it to finish (it will measure 144 points on the bed; this will take some time, go make a cup of tea)
once it has measured all the points you manually use the Z+ / Z- buttons in luban to get the head to pinch the calibration card as you normally do - same tension you normally do (personally i moved the head in 0.02 increments for the last part).

once you have the head where you like you run the following macro or manual commands:

G1029 S ;Save settings
G1029 D0 ;Confirm auto-leveling is on.
M420 V ;Verify auto-level results
G28 ;Home

and you are done, what you can’t do is have the bed heated during this, the G1029 command disables that, i put a PR in to change this longterm and it seems to have been accepted, for some heat makes no diff, for others it seems to.

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