Chris, thanks for the tutorial. Your tutorial is only one that seemed to work with my Le potato. Some things were a little different and a few tweaks done but yours was pretty spot on!
I just started using one of these. I like Armbian just to keep my systems consistent. I use Orange Pi devices as well. Plenty of good walkthroughs online for Armbian installations of Klipper and Octoprint. I have no complaints about the Potato. It has been working great!
I've been running Klipper+Moonraker+Fluidd with OpenSUSE on this board's little brother (la frite) since January of this year. While in operation, it sits at about 25% utilization.
thanks for the tutorial. Just a reminder that everyon starting out with octoprint won't know about writing an image to a SD card. I had to look elsewhere to explain that
Hi Thank you for the videos, it gave me the idea of putting Pi OS on Window Surface RT tablet I had collecting dust. Then I put OctoPrint and OctoDash on it. Now I can use the RT tablet for controling my 3d printer. The touch screen works great and it has a big screen.
@@ChrisRiley Hi Chris everything workds great with my Rostock Max v2 3d Printing. I am having trouble getting my Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus to connect. I have Pi Os running on a Window Surface RT with OctoPrint and OctoDash. I think it is the drivers, the device is listed in lbusb. Any help would be great. thank you
I bought one of these, like my cb1 better and it only cost about $2.50 extra plus it has wifi. The only downside with the cb1 is you have to pay $5 shipping or order two of them to get free shipping from the Biqu store. Still a good board, I ended up installing mine in a van with Kodi running on it. As always a super video, thank you!
Been running several of these exact boards with Octoprint for almost a year - took me a while to figure out how to get it all setup properly (including webcam) but I have the process down now. Best part is, they fit in a standard RPi 3b+ case.
@@zabuza_zen7217 I used mjpg-streamer service, there's a few videos on here on how to set it up but I used v412-ctl --list-devices to get the correct device. Make sure your webcam is showing up in the list first.
Ayyyyyyyy! I commented recommending this :). Just a heads up for anyone looking, I tried the slightly more expensive renegade as well and saw no real performance difference with octoprint. So no need to spend more, if your we're curious.
Thanks for showing the install and this board running. I was really interested in its 4k video. If you don't need that, can't you just use a esp32 to control your printer?
Why Raspbian? Raspbian is Debian with a Raspberry Pi kernel and some custom scripts. The RPi kernel will not work so it has been exchanged with another kernel. The custom scripts don't work with the potato. So there is only Debian left. Ubuntu Server would have a running SSH server on the first boot without any user interaction.
I went that way, because I thought more users would be more familiar with that flavor. You are right though, Ubuntu would probably be almost exactly the same and less stuff to configure.
Great video, manage to get up and running klipper on a vocelab aquila, even after some struggling run input shaper with adlx345. Now I am triying to use a webcam and crownest but get no signal on mainsail, not sure what i am doing wrong. The webcam is an LG AN-VC500. I would appreciate any comment to get it working.
Thanks! Glad you got it working. I have noticed Mainsail is picky with what cameras it likes. I had to reboot multiple times to get it to work with some cameras. If you have another option, give that a try and see if you can isolate the issue.
Someone should buy a container load of these and Pre Image them for various set ups for resale. Us oldies getting into 3D printing struggle with all this modern stuff, We'd snap them up.
Very nice video. The procedure is a little tedious compared to a modern R.P. set up these days, but not too much different from what we used to do to get a Raspberry Pi up and running Octoprint a few years back.
The first thing I got from this video is the scrips you can use for octoprint install. It is infinitely simpler than doing the manual install that I did the last time I did an octoprint install. The Le Potato looks pretty good, though I don't need one (at the moment). That being said, i may find an excuse to get one.
Great video Chris. Have you ever seen the Inovato Quadra? I just bought one. The specs aren't bad. It has a 1.7 ghz processor, built in wifi, 2 gb of ram, a plastic case. It also comes with an HDMI cable and a 2 amp power supply, all for $35.00. I'm wondering if you can put other images on it..?? It has a terminal, so I'm presuming that you can use Linux with it. My I idea is to try to make it a pihole. Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks
Thanks! I have, it runs Armbian, but it's a specific version that runs on the H616 processor. Yes, since you can login SSH, you should be able to use it for pretty much anything.
I went with Orange Pi 3 LTS instead, it's better in every way - better community support, faster processor, DDR4 memory, built-in wifi+BT, Type-C power plug, USB3.0 port, onboard 8GB EMMC, Gb LAN port and more. Even though it costs slightly more but the upgrade is well worth it. I am using one running Klipper for my 3D printer now, and it can also be easily re-purposed later if needed.
Just to mention a few others Orange Pi, RADXA Rock 5B, Banana Pi, - some have wifi support some have to use a dongle and some can take an M2 network card and some even have a M2 NVME slot as well as up to 16G ram.
HI, I just installed the image with teh RaspberryPi imager and I do not see the first run file anymore. What would be the process to setup a default user if I dont create one?
If you can't get the files working like I show in the video, the easiest way is to create a new image then plugin a keyboard and monitor and create the user via the on screen wizard.
@@ChrisRiley I did, I think it is a framebuffer issue. There are somethings in linux that are just above my understanding. I swapped out the potato with a btt pi and klipperscreen fired right up.
Great Video! Everything seemed to work perfect for me until trying to make a timelapse with octolapse. The camera test seems to fail and im unsure why. Maybe because im using ustreamer and not mjpg_streamer? Any help? Thx!
@@ChrisRiley Thank you for your reply! I only seem to have the one option. Although I have got my camera working just by starting over. My only issues now is that "Custom Image Preferences" in OctoLapse doesn't work. The error message says "Currently only MJPEGStreamer is supported". Maybe you can do a video on how to install MJPEGStreamer in the future? Thanks for your help!
Right now i am using a dell 3040 thin client. I would rather have something that i can plug into the ports on my mk3s+ or i want to replace the mk3 board with a BTT 32 bit board. I wouldn't know how to replace the prusa board with a BTT 32 Bit board. Any tips?
It's tricky because you lose all the Prusa goodness that they have baked in. If you want to swap, you have to go with strait Marlin. Check out this github for pointer from others that have done it. github.com/codiac2600/SKR-Bear-Marlin/blob/prusa-skr-aio-2.0.x/README.md
How about showing it running a 3D printer? Guides are scant for configuring klipper for any non-raspberrypi, and it would be nice to know that it actually works (and doesn't have connection/performance issues). Many videos like yours end at this step...😢
I do a time-lapse and a short overview of the print in almost all of my board videos. Here's a link for this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1gWkOil-MtY.html
I'm purchasing a voron 2.4 ldo kit and it wont come with a pi my question is can i use this as a direct replacement ill also be using a ERCF filament changer. or should i just bite the bullet and get a raspberry pi
I think you could make this work. If might take a few extra steps, but it should work the same. I would love to see someone be successful with this config.
Well it is a bit finicky to get working, with raspbian at least the build I have you cannot use the normal setup util. You are going to haveto mash keys in config files to get it working. The downside to this is the docs are not really helpful.
I followed your video instructions but can't get Octoprint to connect to the printer. The device cannot recognize the serial when I plug in the us cable connecter to the printer.
@@ChrisRiley I have a Ender 3 Pro so that's why it doesn't have a serial but I follow the directions but I keep getting the error mcu 'mcu': Unable to connect
having a hard time finding the list of files in the boot partition to add the txt doc not sure what im doing wrong everytime i open the boot partition it only shows one file
@ChrisRiley yes ive tried the non lite as well its really weird 😕 haha 😄 it could be simple but I don't know honestly 😅 I need a wiz kid to make this part even simpler 😅 I'm good w normal klipper and everything else I'm just hitting a bump in the road as I've stated
@@zexaltor2135 Hey, I tried this today and I do see a few files when I build the image. I used the lite version from 5/3/23. photos.app.goo.gl/uHxYUsvnQNVDiMEAA
@ChrisRiley awesome, I have a pi zero 2w but due to the ram capacity it will not be possible so have been looking for a cheap alternative that let me do it, thank you so much for the confirmation
I've been working with Bigtreetech on a lot of their products. Really good stuff 👌. Avoid the Renegade, the rk3328 is the same as the mks pi and it's not great for klipper (chronic mcu shutdowns and they run super hot)
After writing the image, I'm getting a bootfs folder instead. It only has the EFI folder, cmdline.txt, config.txt, network-.con, and user-data. That EFI folder only has grub and a boot folder with BOOTAA64.EFI inside. I used 2023-05-03-raspbian-bullseye-arm64-lite+aml-s905x-cc.img.xz for the image
So I tried these as well and you're right, that image doesn't look right. I tried version 10 distro.libre.computer/ci/raspbian/10/ the files look the same, but it appears to be working as I expected. Not sure what the issue is.
Hello kind sir. I had setup this board just a couple days after this video. I was happy with the end result BUT i cant SSH into it and the region is wrong. I carefully followed these instructions but i need to change the region/ timezone for productions purposes. I have backed up Octoprint and wondering if starting over would be the safest rout? Can i pull the SD card and just change settings or just start all over? Thank you and i bid you a good day!
I don't think this guide works anymore, the raspbian image has changed a lot in a couple months and the steps he takes are no longer possible without an older image file
@howtoguy17 I'm guessing they made it a little easier? Less steps? My next door neighbor has been printing since 2008 and I had no clue. But he's very knowledgeable in all aspects of 3d printing and had me going in just a few mins. Thanks for the response I appreciate it!
I've got one... Priced out of the market of Le potato, cb1, etc to run klipper and can't run real time Linux well enough for LinuxCNC, so it's in my drawer of "things to do" 😞
Too bad Raspberry Foundation are still treating end customers as subhumans and unworthy of having access to a raspberry pi. The "China" Pis has great availability and good price, in some places in the world, a Raspberry Pi can cost up to 8x more, but they lack in software support. They are always using an old 5.16.y EOL kernel stripped of its headers, and SoC manufacturers seems to not care about updating their device trees to more updated kernel versions, they are usually originally at 4.14 or 4.19, hacked to 5.16.y. Why this matter? Because of security, third party software compatibility, drivers, and performance.
Hey man👍👍good video toturials bro have learned a lot from you. I even jumped in to 3d printing and designing am a beginner though. Like am not promoting but I appreciate your efforts becouse am growing I built a 2 in one 3d printer, am using skr_1.4_turbo_board I also watched a video from you it helped understand becouse they are long and full of knowledge but am lucking one thing only a filament and always have a lot bro could you giving me one😘😜 am from KENYA I'LL KEEP LEARNING FROM YOU.
