R Pi Monitor  

Re: R Pi Monitor

Can it monitor the printer and send feedback on the temperatures for example?

can I add my own additional sensors to monitor the temperature from outside the enclosure?

you can of course get the temps via octoprint from the printers sensors, but you can also add your own thermistor for monitoring ambient temperature directly via the pi, you will need some additional hardware (at least a thermistor and some additional hardware/board) though. I don't think the einsy itself has connectors for additional thermistors.

Can i use this this information to activate a fan to cool the enclosure if it gets too hot?

Ofc you can then with this information use the pi to start additional fans (which you also need to hook up to the pi, there should be plenty of tutorials for that)

would it be best to use a RPi 3 via usb to achieve this or a Zero attached to the board?

You would probably be way better of with a pi3, outside the einsy housing, since you will have to have access to the unused GPIO pins for your additional "features" mentioned above.

I suggest you dig into some RPi tutorials, have fun 😉

Re: R Pi Monitor

Thanks hiElvis

i have a mechanical background so this side of it is new to me. I will start to look into how to create a system like this in detail now I know it can interact with the printer in the way I want. I have started to look into this but I didn't really see anything on combining the external sensors and the printer simultaneously.

This has been a great help thanks.