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So, The BLTouch sensor is different than the capacitive or inductive sensors. It uses a physical pin that extends and retracts to detect the presence of the bed.
I used the mount from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1846913
I used the directions from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2091529
It's really not all that hard to get working, but you will need to upgrade your firmware to the latest version of Marlin in order to be able to use it.
The only real tricks with this is that it uses an unused pin on the lcd display buss. It's pretty easy though to just use an exacto knife to seperate the one wire from the unused led pin there and connect it up to the bl touch.
Now I can print on whatever I want, without having to readjust the z offset. Glass, the metal bed, tape, etc. I would only have to adjust things if I need to change out the hotend for some reason.
Here's a video of it doing the z level and bed leveling.
I used the mount from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1846913
I used the directions from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2091529
It's really not all that hard to get working, but you will need to upgrade your firmware to the latest version of Marlin in order to be able to use it.
The only real tricks with this is that it uses an unused pin on the lcd display buss. It's pretty easy though to just use an exacto knife to seperate the one wire from the unused led pin there and connect it up to the bl touch.
Now I can print on whatever I want, without having to readjust the z offset. Glass, the metal bed, tape, etc. I would only have to adjust things if I need to change out the hotend for some reason.
Here's a video of it doing the z level and bed leveling.