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PlasticFantastic
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Octoprint?

Has anyone tried it with the Prusa i3? How good can it get? It does connect at least.

Posted : 09/12/2015 7:56 pm
PJR
 PJR
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Re: Octoprint?

Hi Diego

Yes, its rather good. I have 2 printers and 2 RasPi 2B running OctoPrint. No problems with full control and can view and control the printers wherever I am.

Peter

Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…

Posted : 09/12/2015 8:01 pm
richard.l
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Re: Octoprint?

This will be my weekend project. Hopefully it goes smooth.

Posted : 09/12/2015 9:35 pm
PJR
 PJR
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Re: Octoprint?

Hi Richard

It really should take only an hour to set up, maximum 2 hours. If you have any queries, post them here.

Will you be connecting a webcam? What make/model? Wired or WiFi network? At least 8GB micro SD card?

Peter

Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…

Posted : 10/12/2015 12:01 am
richard.l
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Re: Octoprint?

Webcam will be the Pi camera with a longer cable. Network will be wired since I will be powering the Pi from the Rambo. As for the SD Card, I'm not sure if I will go 8 or 16 GB. 8 should be plenty but I'm not sure if I can find an 8GB card here in town.

Posted : 10/12/2015 4:38 am
PJR
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Re: Octoprint?

Richard

When you start taking timelapse of long prints, you will need a bigger SD card. The images are stored individually in a temp folder and then rendered at the end. 16GB will be good.

OctoPi/Print should work without any config changes.

Peter

Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…

Posted : 10/12/2015 10:05 am
richard.l
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Re: Octoprint?

Hmmm, hadn't thought about the need of the timelapse files. Maybe 32GB?

I will have to do some small configuring on the network settings as I prefer to use static IP addresses.

Posted : 10/12/2015 4:20 pm
PJR
 PJR
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Re: Octoprint?

Hi Richard

I would say that timelapse is more of a "want" than a "need". I did it a few times, then got tired of it...

I think you can set up the NIC config on the Windows PC before moving the card across.

When I went to buy the SD card, 16GB was the best value-for-money, so I went with that.

Peter

Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…

Posted : 10/12/2015 5:47 pm
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