Octoprint Not Staying Online
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I decided to set up Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi 3 over the weekend, as I mainly wanted to be able to monitor and cancel prints remotely. I got thing up and running and all is working as expected, except for one issue. After the Pi has been on for a while I loose communications with it, it still is showing up in my routers list of connected wifi devices. However I can't connect to it in the browser, I can't PING it and I can't SSH into it. I have to physically turn it off/on and then it comes back online. I thought maybe was a power management issue with the Raspberry Pi, so I followed a tutorial to turn that off (didn't really know what I was doing, but showed as OFF when done). I'm not sure what else to do, any thoughts on what I should look into. Thanks
Re: Octoprint Not Staying Online
Did you install any plugins?
If yes, try disabling or uninstalling them, I may have had that problem, still investigating but that may have been my issue.
Re: Octoprint Not Staying Online
The only plugin I installed so far is AstroPrint. I can try uninstalling and see what happens, I also see there was a new Octoprint version released yesterday, so may try updating.
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There is an issue with wifi on raspbian staying alive. I solved it but can't remember how, perhaps it was about the country code of the wifi. You may google that issue. I will try to post about the solution i retrieved. On octopi 0.16 (strech), the issue should be solved.
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Thanks for the info, I ended up buying a powerline network adapter so I could use ethernet instead of wifi for Octoprint, been working great since. But would be great to be able to solve the wifi issue as I can see myself using the Raspberry Pi for other projects as well.
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I think i read that thread: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=139377
I should have done iwconfig wlan0 power off
But perhaps sudo rpi-update is enough.
It is an old jessie issue (octopi 0.14). Stretch shouldn't have it (octopi 0.15).
Re: Octoprint Not Staying Online
Hi! I had similar issues with OctoPrint... On my wifi- router I have chosen a fixed wifi- channel (CH1-11) with the best latency and changed the bandwidth to 20MHz... With this config I have no problems...
Maybe you can also try different country- codes on your OctoPrint- server...
Good luck 😉
Bernd