[HN Gopher] OctoPrint
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OctoPrint
Author : laktak
Score : 74 points
Date : 2021-03-10 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| mutecipher wrote:
| This was the first "upgrade" I did when I finally bought a 3D
| printer. And I don't think I could go without it at this point.
| Can't recommend enough.
| sschueller wrote:
| I have octoprint on all my printers. Klipper or marlin but always
| with octoprint on a pi. It is incredibly useful and there are
| many plugins for what ever you may need. Additionaly I have
| Printoid om android which talks to octoprint.
| h2odragon wrote:
| (At least as of a couple years ago when i last used it) Octoprint
| is a lovely, well integrated system that comes close to being
| easy for newbs and utilitarian users to deploy; while still not
| impossibly complicated for hacking into whatever adjustments you
| need. That's a neat trick.
| StavrosK wrote:
| Octoprint is amazing. There are also some very high-quality plug-
| ins, like Octolapse, which Octoprint's standardized plugin
| interface makes a breeze to use.
|
| I upgraded my printer's motherboard and didn't even bother to
| connect the screen and dial, Octoprint is now the printer's GUI,
| as far as I'm concerned.
| sydd wrote:
| It seems I'm the minority here, but I dont like OctoPrint. My
| main issues:
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| - Terribly slow startup and load times.
|
| - no support for mobile devices just with some app.
|
| - While it can do lots of things with plugins they tend to kill
| performance which might cause artifacts on the print.
|
| - slow on updates, they ware on Python 2.x until this year.
|
| I'm currently migrating to mainsail
| (https://github.com/meteyou/mainsail), which looks much better.
| _jal wrote:
| I have a 3D printer, and I don't get it at all. I have yet to
| need to print something remotely, and can't think of a scenario
| in which I would want to.
|
| I guess if you have reason to want process pictures?
| AdamTReineke wrote:
| I like being untethered from my PC or SD card. Drag and drop
| the gcode into the web UI and click print. My printer sits in
| the room adjacent to my office so then I can monitor it
| remotely using phone apps (OctoPrint provides a mjpeg
| stream).
|
| Edit: plus visualization for auto-bed leveling is amazing
| trying to fine tune the printer bed.
| angryasian wrote:
| It does much more than this, though. Printing directly from
| cura, gcode viewer, bed levelling visualizer, notification
| when done and emergency stop.
|
| These are the plugins I love so far. I guess it depends on
| which printer you have but these are all amazing for my uses.
| johnboiles wrote:
| Does it only work with the Klipper printer firmware or can it
| work with Marlin?
| InvertedRhodium wrote:
| To counter your example, I run a Prusa Mk3s and recently bought
| a mini and have quite literally never run either printer
| without OctoPrint.
|
| I've got no interest in shuffling around sd cards in order to
| print models, nor do I want it connected to my primary pc that
| gets rebooted regularly.
|
| And in their defence, I've been running OctoPrint for about 3
| years and never had an issue with it across any updates.
| zshift wrote:
| OctoPrint only has a single main developer. They also spend a
| lot of time triaging bugs
| (https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/issues). I'm sure
| they'd appreciate any help they can get.
| leipert wrote:
| I think they handled the python upgrade professionally, the
| author even went and fixed some of the communities more popular
| plugins to be python 3 compatible. When the python 3 update
| didn't work for me, the rollback scripts worked great and a few
| months later I just upgraded to python 3.
|
| All in all the main maintainer, which is working full time on
| it, is communicating well with the community. The iteration
| cycle has become faster during this last year, and updates seem
| to be rather stable.
|
| Regarding the performance killing plugins, never had a problem
| on a RPi 4. What are you using?
| glitch13 wrote:
| If all Octoprint provided was the ability to print directly from
| Cura it would be worth it. Luckily it does much more than that.
|
| The only downside I've found is I've lost the Ender 3 Pro's
| resume ability if the power goes out.
| WestOaklandfan wrote:
| I've used octoprint alot. But prusas management software is
| getting a lot better and will definitely have my consideration
| for my next printer
| vorpalhex wrote:
| I've run octoprint on a dedicated pi for several years now. My
| latest build is a Raspi 4 booting off usb and it runs a modified
| frontend quite nicely.
|
| Fantastic project.
| JanisIO wrote:
| I use it with my Prusa mini's. The only pity is that it's a bit
| annoying to run two printers with it. Two instances... is that
| really necessary?
| bjustin wrote:
| I used OctoPrint on a RPi to drive my 3D printer for years. It
| was great. I added the RPi camera and could keep an eye on prints
| remotely, which while leaving home while printing was maybe not a
| great idea, certainly was convenient.
| mcshicks wrote:
| Yep that's exactly my setup. I don't even leave the house I
| have the printer in a closet and can peek at it from time to
| time while watching tv. I added an LED strip I can turn on/off
| from octoprint as a light for the camera. One thing I really
| like is just being able to look at the first couple layers just
| before I hit print so I really know I've got the right file
| loaded.
| bdongkdong wrote:
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| https://github.com/sponsors/foosel
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