Tiger Touch for Creality 3D printers
Tiger Touch turns a BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch into a live screen for your Creality printers: progress, layers, temperatures and the CFS, straight from the printer on your network.
- Models
- K2 Plus, K2 Pro, K2, K1, K1 Max, K1C, K1 SE, Hi, Ender-3 V4, Ender-3 V3 KE
- Connection
- The printer's own WebSocket on your local network (port 9999), no cloud.
- Tested
- Seen on real printers: a full print on a K2 Plus, with its CFS; an Ender-3 V4 idle with its CFS.
Older Creality printers such as the Ender-3, Ender-3 S1 or CR-10: put them behind OctoPrint and add them in Tiger Studio Manager as OctoPrint printers; Tiger Touch follows them through OctoPrint.
Install Tiger Touch from your browser Source on GitHub
Want the original firmware back one day? It can be reinstalled at any time: how to go back
You dreamed of it. The TigerSquad built it.
Tiger Touch, Tiger Studio, TigerScale, TigerSpool, TigerPOD: free tools made by a community of makers, for every brand of printer.
K2 Plus
K2 Pro
K2
K1 Max
K1C
K1
K1 SE
Hi
Ender-3 V4
Ender-3 V3 KE
Ender-3 S1via OctoPrint
Ender-3via OctoPrint
CR-10via OctoPrint
What you need
- A BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch, the 5-inch touchscreen, sold separately: maybe the one already in your drawer. The K-Touch is the same board with another BIGTREETECH firmware: Tiger Touch replaces either.
- For the first installation only: Chrome or Edge on a computer and a USB-C data cable. Nothing stays plugged in afterwards.
- Your printer on the same Wi-Fi network as the screen (or its maker's cloud, where the page above says so).
- A free TigerSystem account, with the printer added in Tiger Studio Manager, the desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux).
What the screen shows for a Creality 3D printer
- State, progress, layers, time left and the estimated end, the file being printed
- Nozzle, bed and chamber temperatures with their set points
- The CFS slots with material and colour, the slot in use ringed, and the external spool
Pause, stop and the light
The light switches from the screen (seen on a K2). Pause, resume and stop are sent as Creality Print does; stop asks for a confirmation first.
Set it up in three steps
- Make sure LAN mode is on in the printer's settings (it is off by default on some models).
- Add the printer in Tiger Studio Manager (desktop app): it finds it on your network.
- Flash Tiger Touch, sign in with the same TigerSystem account, and switch the printer on in Settings > Printers.
Tip. A Creality printer that shows offline almost always has LAN mode off, or a new address after a router restart: refresh it in Tiger Studio Manager.
Creality questions
Does it work with the CFS?
Yes: every CFS slot with material and colour, the active one ringed, and the external spool.
Does it need Creality Cloud?
No. Tiger Touch talks to the printer directly on your local network.
Which Creality printers?
The K2 family, the K1 family, the Hi and the Ender-3 V4: those Tiger Studio Manager adds. It was run on a K2 Plus and an Ender-3 V4.
What about an older Creality, such as an Ender-3 S1?
Put it behind OctoPrint (an OctoPi, for instance): Tiger Touch follows it through its OctoPrint connection.
The same screen, every brand
Tiger Touch follows every printer of your TigerSystem account on one screen, whatever the brand, each through its maker's own connection:
- Bambu Lab Bambu cloud or LAN mode, every AMS slot, the light
- Elegoo Centauri Carbon 1 and 2 on your network, the Canvas
- Anycubic Anycubic cloud or your network, every ACE slot
- Snapmaker The U1 on your network, its four tool heads
- FlashForge On your network, the AD5X material station
- Prusa PrusaLink on your network: progress and temperatures
- Klipper Moonraker: Voron, Qidi, Sovol, AFC and Happy Hare
- OctoPrint Any Marlin printer behind OctoPrint
What Tiger Touch is
A free, open-source firmware that turns the BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch, a 5-inch touchscreen made for Bambu Lab, into one live screen for all your 3D printers. No computer left on and no bridge: it signs in to your TigerSystem account, reads your printers from it and talks to each one directly.
Built around makers, not around a brand
Printer makers build their software around their own machines: their apps, their clouds and their screens are designed to keep you with their printers. TigerSystem starts from the other end: you. Whatever printers you own, whatever their brand, whatever computer or phone you use, our tools adapt to the way you work, not the other way round. A Creality printer today, another brand tomorrow: the same screen follows both.
Every brand on one screen
Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, Anycubic, Snapmaker, FlashForge, Prusa, Klipper and OctoPrint, up to ten printers live at once.
Nothing to type
Your printers come from your TigerSystem account, with their addresses and access codes, as Tiger Studio Manager added them.
Install from your browser
Plug the screen in, press Install in Chrome or Edge: a few minutes, no tools, no soldering.
Updates over Wi-Fi
The screen finds new versions by itself and asks; each one is checked before it is used.
Live view in Tiger Studio
Tiger Studio Manager shows the screen live, touches it and takes screenshots for a bug report or a post.
Free and open source
MIT licence, no subscription, eleven languages, made by the TigerSquad community.
The rest of the TigerSystem family
Tiger Touch is one of TigerSystem's free tools. The others share the same account, the same spools and the same printers:
Tiger Studio Manager
Mission control for your filament and your printers, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Start here: your account and your printers are set up there.
TigerPOD Mini
A spool scanner for your desk that you print yourself: put a spool down and it opens in Tiger Studio.
TigerScale V3
An open-source scale: the chip says what the spool is, the load cell how many grams are left.
TigerSpool
A small box beside the printer: hold a spool against it and the filament is written into the printer's slot.