Not trying to be pessimistic but it doesn’t sound very good. I’d leave it on for a while in case it is needing to update firmware.
Sadly 90% of the real problems are DOA.
I’m seeing exactly the same behavior. I hear some light ticking right after I turn it on, which is concerning, but doesn’t seem loud enough to be the motors banging or anything big and mechanical. Contacted support so I guess we’ll see…
You are probably right, and this is probably why I have had very little problem with my PRU, it sits just a couple of feet from my router.
Something I have observed with IoT is that most have wimpy Wifi setups. I don’t know about the because above but I observe this with a lot of other things.
Which is something I’m … fairly confident … I don’t have. =P
For wifi I have a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PRO, which is in the hallway ceiling about a dozen feet from where my GF sits, and that’s connected to gigabit fiber.
I don’t see any connectivity issues with my Glowforge, at least not from my end. It’s updating it’s status back to the GFUI if I power cycle it.
I’ve tried power cycling again today, and once when having the GF’s head away from the camera it appeared to try moving the head a couple of times, but it still never completed a “Calibrating” step despite letting it sit for hours.
I’ve power cycled it again with the head right under the lid camera and still no change, it’s just sitting there saying Calibrating.
Sounds like UPS may have jostled it a bit much. My first one did the same thing as yours is doing. Once, the arm moved forward but the head never traveled anywhere. I then had a saga go on with UPS but most have good to go on the replacement.
I’m having a similar problem. It took a while for me to connect to the wifi, and I’ve now managed it and my device shows as CALIBRATING in the app dropdown, but it’s not moving anywhere. Every thirty seconds or so it makes a brief grumble, like a motor trying to move, and the button blinks white.
@Memnus you will want to start a new Topic here in Problems and Support to make sure the support staff sees it and starts a ticket on it. They don’t always see add-on posts.
I know it doesn’t seem like it right now but when all the flaky dust settles out a working machine will calibrate, scan and prepare without fail and very quickly. Only exception I can think of is when the image is too large for the buffers. The intent from the beginning was to be able to download a part of an image cut/engrave and then load the rest seamlessly. Clearly that has not been implemented as yet.