I used version 1.3.1 of the Jyers firmware. If you use a different version then you may get different results.

This video saved my behind. I almost gave up on my printer after trying to get it leveled over the last few months. I've put about 20 hours into leveling even with a BLTouch. I apparently didn't know how to set it up. Thank you so much for this video!

Generally for bltouch i suggest taking the springs out and use silicone fixed mounts so the bed is more rigid in reference to the base plate

I am new to 3D printing and had purchased a BL touch, BTT sensor, and installed an octopi setup. I was having trouble with my BL touch not working right and didn't know which of the products was causing the issue till I found this video. This video hit it on the head so a HUGE thank you for posting this and helping resolve my issue.

You can also use G29 in GCode to auto level before printing but I recommend the M420 S1 recall instead of G29 in Start GCode since it allows you to easily do two color prints without worrying about the probe hitting the first print. This was a question from a previous video.

excellent in-depth tutorial 👏😎

Thanks a lot for this video. I had the BLTouch set up the older way by replacing the Z-stop and getting the bed levelled was such a pain. The Jyers f/w is such a find. I had to rewire the BLTouch to use all 5 pins (which wasn't obvious at first and I was wondering why it was not Z-homing), but then it all fell into place. Amazing work and I am going to go over and try to support their efforts via Patreon / Paypal.

Just a quick tip for others who might be struggling w/ this issue; When purchasing the BLTouch from ANTCLABS instead of Creality 3D, you'll sit w/ two sets of combined pins instead of a singular plug-in type. These you'll have to glue onto the bus port exterior w/ hotglue. Make sure your rainbow / screen bus cable is unplugged and out the way, then ONE AT A TIME, glue the 2-pin one into the top, white top and black bottom. Hold the pin against the board whilst the glue cools down and give it a few minutes. Do the same thereafter w/ the three pin, gluing so that the brown pin is right at the bottom. This is glued into the dedicated BL-T bus port, the vacant one adjacent to where your Z stop switch is plugged in. Failure to perform this correctly will likely result in your servo / blue light not coming on when you switch your E3-V2 on and when auto homing, your nozzle will drive into your glass bed. This is the problem I had - initially I tried shortcutting by gluing both pin sets in simultaneously, resulting in one or two pins not connecting to the board. I haven't yet found anyone on the internet pointing this fault out in this way, so hope it helps.

Chep i owe you some money, youve taught me so much since ive started printing 3 months ago. Ive watched videoes of your from years ago and theyre still helping to this day. Thank you thank you thank you

Thank you for this video. I installed one on a printer out of the box and the only step I skipped was installing the Z end stop. I figured I didn’t even need to use it.

Thanks for the info! I spent way too many frustrating hours last night just trying to wing it. Clearly I had no idea what I was doing.

Can't tell you how helpful this video was Chuck! Even for a seasoned guy like me. Thanks again for what you do for the community!

I'm new at this and I must say that this is the absolute BEST video that clearly explains and shows how to do thing upgrade. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to watching your channel for more videos to help me understand.

You are reading in my minds... I'm gonna install Bltouch in my machine at Tuesday and you are uploading video how to do that just before. I love it ;)

EXCELLENT video! I have watched most, if not all, of the other leveler (or is it... Trammer??) videos and yours was, by far, the easiest to follow and you didn't skip steps like the others did.

At 2:20 would be a good time to remind people to check what version board they have. On the Ender 3 V2, you should either have a 4.2.2 or a 4.2.7. This will affect which version of software you pick at time 2:58.

I have one on my V2, I was hesitant at first because the price, but this is by far my favorite mod. It easily pays for itself with time saved considering you get perfect prints every time without babysitting your print.

Thanks CHEP... I have looked at other videos regarding BL/CR Touch, this is best explained and understandable! Used it to step the Jyers/Marling firmware on an Ender 3v2 with CR Touch.

You made this so easy for a beginner like me. Thank you. Upgrading firmware is pretty intimidating for someone who has no idea about where to start.

Jyers' 1.3.1 firmware update adds a lot of very nice features, particularly in comparison to the stock Creality firmware. I'm not in a hurry when printing, so I use G29 in the start G-code to re-do bed leveling at the start of each print. That way if I've bumped things such as the glass bed or a bed leveling screw, that change is accounted for. Yes, it adds time to each and every print. Yes, it means the bed is leveled and is level for each and every print. A reasonable trade-off to me. Thanks for the video!

Can you make a tutorial on how to add a filament run out sensor for the ender 3 v2. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Just a heads up. Installed a BLTouch in my Ender 6 a couple weeks ago and was tearing my hair out because it would only intermittently work. It would attempt to level the bed, get a random number of points in and just error out. Turns out there's a small hex screw in the top of the BLTouch that allows you to adjust the amount of force it requires to drop the pin. I turned mine about a quarter turn and haven't had a single failed probe since.

The vid I needed, just when I needed it. Always a great vid at CHEP. 👍

Auto bed leveling is a MASSIVE quality of life improvement for printers. I wouldn't recommend anybody try and do it manually because even thought it's possible, it's far easier to just use ABL and be guaranteed decent 1st layers. Biggest issue with it is you really need to rebuild the firmware to tweak how many points it probes and their offsets.

Thanks Chep great video. took me a while to get it working but your replies to others comments helped so much

Perfect timing! Looking at upgrading with BL Touch today and just watched firmware upgrade video. Looks like I’m ready to go!

This firmware makes bed levelling so user friendly. The Z- offset (up/down ) makes setting the nozzle / bed so much better for especially PETG filament. Awesome firmware Awesome video !!

My god, and here i thought the auto level would take some load of my back but this doesn't look simpler one bit

Great video! I start the bed level with the real bed temperature. maybe your left front corner was wrong because of that.

3DTouch works great on my Ender 3 Pro with BTT SKR E3 Turbo board.

Thanks so much! Hopefully this helps me get my Ender back up and running.

Thanks a lot ! I was following the instructions from Creality and ended up with a just beeping printer with a black screen. After following your instructions thing quickly got great again :)

This video saved me a LOT of heartache. Thank you !! ;)

Years ago when I first got into 3d printing I purchased this right away, know now that I hardly ever relevel my beds I would never have purchased this 😮

Might want to level the bed *after* flipping the unit on it's side to install the electronics.😉

I love your videos! You are always clear and concise as you share your knowledge with us. I used this for the BL-touch on my Ender 3v2, but I would love if you could do a video for the Ender 3 Max. I just received my 3 Max yesterday and the BL Touch is on the way. Thank you!

So, how did you fix the left front corner?

Worked great with the new CR Touch from Creality. Thank you a bunch!!

Love your videos, very informative with no bull. I followed this video to install a knock off unit and I used the 2:20 time of the video to connect mine to the mother board. Well smoke came from the board, good news it did not do damage I unplugged it in time. A note if you are installing a knock off the wires are reversed, the white wire is closest to the display plug.

Followed just like you showed beside my Owen distances and it worked perfectly. Thanx so much

Such a straight forward tutorial. Thanks a lot

Now I have a clear guide for doing this with my voxelab aquila since the marlin menu is similar for that machine. Very helpful

Fantastic, Chuck! Thanks a lot! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

AWESOME Like the new LCD display options !!!

Hi, thank you for the very clear BLTouch installation video, worked great for me, Greetings from the Netherlands Cees Ruiter

A couple of years ago as a novice I thought that bed leveling was difficult and I ordered a BLtouch which I intended to install. Since it is not directly supported I postponed the installation and then I started to wonder. Today I do not see the need for automatic bed leveling. I have not re-leveled my printer bed for ages. From time to time I adjust one or the other corner live during the skirt of a print - that's it. I am printing on a Wanhao i3 with a glass bed.

Really helpful, Chuck. Each time I see one of these it gets me closer to making the decision to get one for each of my Ender 3 Pros. At the minute though I'm on a mission to wring as much value as I can out of manual mesh levelling which frankly has been a game changer. Yes, even that. But there's nothing like new toys and an excuse to tinker, is there?

Another excellent install guide - got it right first time - thank you :)

I think manual leveling is easier. Thanks for the video

These instructions caused much smoke >_> No potential risks or precautions are explained in the video. [EDIT] Somehow the printer survived, I don't know how damaged it is, there was quite a stream of smoke. The pinout on the probe seems correct compared to diagrams of an original BLTouch I found online, but the orientation shown in the video results in the pins being wired backwards. Ender 3 V2 Board v4.2.2

Great video as usual. Please do one where you check out the UBL version of the jyer firmware. It allows the BLTouch to create a mesh with hundreds of points instead of just 9. Be interesting to know if that improves the quality of the prints.

Great video and great timing. My BLTouch arrived a couple of days ago so it was nice to check my work. The included instructions with the kit are not good. I had used Creality's firmware but I think I'll switch over to Jyers. It looks more complete judging by the menus. I also insert a G29 so it auto-levels before every print because I swap out print beds frequenty. Thank you very much for making this.

BLTouch is a great sensor!! Thanks for sharing this walk-through :-)

Thanks for this video. It was the one that actually worked for me and made sense.

Thank you so much, i was really lost with the install of my bl touch

Great job. Best video I seen yet. Thanks!

Awesome. You are my number 1 source of knowledge

I'm sure someone said this before but fee the cable the other way with the small connector being pushed to the top.

Another great video! Thanks!

when I click print it always auto levels for like 30 minutes. I want to skip that and use the saved mesh. Is that possible?

Hi Chep, Would this bl touch work for an Ender Pro 3? If so, how would I do the software? Thank you.

Thanks CHEP for this video. I've been using the Jyers firmware for awhile now. Very happy with it and the features he's adding into the menus. It's also being actively worked on, I noticed he's just released a new v1.3.2 build two days ago. Time to get out that sd card :) There's also a huge advantage to using the Jyers firmware, notes from his WIKI "A lot of the benefits ExtUI are to do with how it is coded. The original code for the E3V2 display required many, many additions to the marlin base code specifically for that display. As you can imagine this is a very inefficient way of coding a display. ExtUI allows for display functions to run off the same UI calls and functions that any other display would use, making it not only more efficient to program, but much better connected to the Marlin UI system." "Due to the fact that ExtUI allows much better implementation of Marlin functions into the display, the new firmware behaves much more like other popular LCDs. This includes status updates in the status area for Marlin events and M117 messages as well as a more robust popup system, especially for user confirm actions such as M0 and M600 commands."

Hey, I run two ender 3 V2 with BL touch and have found the smith 3D firmware to be great. Thanks for the video I never thought of pulling the cables through with wire, that’s a much cleaner solution.

The orientation of the colors of the plug going into the main board threw me at first. Usually Black/White go to 'G'/'OUT' where yours go to 'G' and '5v'. My BLtouch died so I got a 3Dtouch as a replacement. By using the old BLtouch plug the colors match yours and all is working good. Great video and thank you.

I definitely recommend to install the UBL version like 10x10 with HS. It's awesome and so reliable after that.

Maybe I’m missing something but it didn’t seem to make it that “automatic” if you still have to level etc. Does it get better after? Thanks!

Should be." M420 S1 ; retrieve autolevel values from eeprom"

THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS 😊😊

Should you not also show the G29 ( Auto level the bed before each print ) method also where you do not need the mesh ? Good method to use if you are sing a spring steel bed as this gets removed from the machine bed all the time.

How about other types of sensors sir...?? Inductive... mechanical... photo interuptor...

Great video, I'd love to see one with a precision piezo installed on an ender 3.

Huge help -Well done thanks!

Very interesting video. I also saw your video on mesh leveling your ender 3v2. Which of these methods do you prefer? It seems like the mesh leveling gave you better results but leveling with the BLTouch seems easier to do. Very interested in your opinion on this!

Do not use the current BLTouch firmware on the Creality site ( thanks for the firmware links to Jyers ), it leaves you in a state where you can change the Z value and it isn't close enough to print. If you adjust the Z-offset, and home, it changes the Z-move by the same amount, with zero net effect on the physical position. grrrr.

wouldn't it be easier to thread the cable from the other end first so you have the smaller plug to navigate through the cable mesh ?

Great video, but maybe it's better to insert the smaller connector into the sheath, from the motherboard side and pull it up to the bl-touch, it's easier.

Good video but I honestly don't understand why you would need a BLTouch. I have used one for a while but removed it because it didn't gave me better prints which btw where already good. The last time I leveled the bed was more than 2 years ago and my Ender3 still prints awesome. Btw, I'm using Buildtak as the print surface, maybe that's why I never have to level(?)

I've installed the CR Touch using the provided bracket but upon further inspection the nozzle is lower than probe causing the nozzle to crash into the bed. Please help, thank you.

Whats the difference between G29 and M420?

Can you do a video of how to manually tune a 5x5 mesh with the CR Touch. Thanks Don

I downloaded the firmware and flashed it, but now my printer wont move but everything else do you know how to fix this? Edit: I found out that I had downloaded the wrong version of the firmware :)

Great tutorial but there's 2 critiques. Some people have issue if they don't unplug the stop cable and it would be nice to be shown how to remove that cover for the electronics as 3 screws hasn't been enough for me and I'm about to go watch another tutorial.

Thank you so very much for this. The instructions(and software) that come with the BLTouch are absolutely terrible, so you just undid and then fixed a full day of "Why doesn't this work?"

and by the way trig the small connector of bl touch not the big one like you did it its smaller and easy to drag from other side .Your ideea to drag was fantastic but improved with draging the smaller one its like i seed easy

Mine doesn’t have that stuff in the control menu

Anyone know what the values in green and red in the "Mesh Viewer" indicate? Are the numbers, like 0.03 mm values or unitless? Does green mean 'high' and red 'low'? Any success in adjusting the bed 'flat' according to the mesh viewer? After trying to get as many squares black 0.01s, my bed was worse than after a quick paper method manual level...

My Firmware doesn't have the advanced option it seems and i'm not sure which version I need that does.

long piece of copper wire with a loop.. and here I am pushing it through with my fingers like a chump.

Great video. Did you do anything to fix the issue in the lower left hand corner of your bed leveling? If so what did you do. Thanks again

Chuck, I understand how you get the x offset by measuring the distance from the bl touch to the nozzle how do you get the y offset?

Great video. I see how you measured the X offset, but how exactly did you measure the Y offset to enter in -6.0?

It doesn't give me the option to auto level, I can set the mesh, then home. Once I go to print it doesn't warm up automatically, then after a few seconds a loading bar appears and then it just stops. Can anyone help please?

Where can I get the test print?

If I am honest it actually seems like a problem maker. I mean after leveling and creating mesh it should print perfectly and live Z adjust shouldn't be needed. I will stick to manual leveling even I don't like it ;)

Cheers Dude! Awesome tutorial! Ended up going with a genuine BL-Touch after watching this and definitely glad I didnt cheap out! I only made one change, made a little cut in the hot end fan cover so the BL-Touch wiring was hidden in there, looks super neat and I glued it away from the burny stuff

Hope you have better luck with your than I did with mine. I got a lot of probe failures.

I didn't have any wire that could help me get the bltouch wire through the sleeve so I got it as far as I could through the sleeve and made a little hole so I could get it connected. Nice video though.

Just got around to installing mine. I love the ender but man do I hate the location of the electronics. Seriously thinking of printing an enclosure for the electronics after I get it up and running again.

how did you resolve the front left corner????

great Video, but missed one very important step. When modifying G code you also need to modify your print head silhouette min x to ~-50 This almost cost me my BL touch the first time I tried to print sequentially!