Installing Klipper Firmware On A Laptop Or Desktop (Pi Alternative) 

"Ubuntu Server has been recommended as a better alternative" By who? I first tried installing kiauh on ubuntu and ran into problems with it saying "--allow-releaseinfo-change is not understood in combination with the other options" during the klipper install. I tried removing all of those flags from the install scripts but it just got another type of error so I gave up and am now installing mint

Can you install your 3d modeling software and slicer on this computer?

@@nongrata140 Bad idea

Is it related to the reason why mcu is not detected?

Might be even better to go with Debian directly instead of one of its flavours.

I was running old PC laptop with octoprint somewhere around 2016-2017 and it was the best.

Happy to hear! I really hope it helps. Thank you for the feedback!

@@ModBotArmy it does! You are the man!

You, sir, are awesome. Came to the comments looking for this exact information because I followed every direction up to this point and couldn't log in. Evidently my firewall was still active, but once I ran that sudo prompt, all was good. Thanks!

Good catch, I got stuck there, too. Once I got in I wasn't faced with his screen though. I had 'klipper reports error, mcu unable to connect.' I clicked the restart option and klipper started up but reported printer not ready. Should I have a printer connected at this point, there was no mention of that in the video?

Been stuck for 3 days trying to figure out what went wrong..... going to give this a shot

Thanks !

anyone has any other suggestions? i have this problem.. i can connect from my pc via PuTTY ssh, but via browser nothing...

yes, good point, not everyone uses static IPs, with MAC address whitelists and forces the router to report the wrong gateway IP when an auto query is received.

What mainboard are you using on your ender 3? I have ender 3 pro and upgraded to btt skr 3 v2.0. Not sure how I would go about installing klipper and connecting to my 3d printer. Didn't see that mentioned in this video. I also have a NAS with unraid and containers, I'd love to do opnsense at some point too if I can figure out how to multi boot 3 OS from 3 different bare metal hardwares. Anyway that's another rabbit hole haha. Any recommendations on getting my ender 3 pro btt skr 3 v2.0 mainboard working with klipper via a docker container in the lowest cost effort would be appreciated. I put a decent amount of $ into these upgrades and the remote control and input shaping/klipper is the last I desire before I drop 1g on next bambu 300mm bed competitor.

Thank you! DO IT!

Do it you won’t regret it

Probably because it only works if you're lucky or very familiar with Linux. For many of us it is one issue after another, even following the instructions to the letter it gets stuck at some point and support is impossible to come by.

Sounds great! Absolutely :)

Yeah for a stationary setup with multiple machines this really is ideal

How did you salvage the webcam and make it into a cam for the printer?

@@DKFX1 The webcam is connected to the motherboard through a wire that is passed by one of the hinges. In my case, the wire is shared with the screen so it goes to the same connector (to the motherboard). Also the webcam just consists of a small PCB like a RasPi camera, so just treat it like that. Since the screen is broken, I just disassembled the top part of the laptop and unplugged the screen connector of the wire, keeping just the camera in one end and the motherboard connector in the other. The software side is pretty simple, you can follow a RasPi camera setup for mainsail (in my case) since it's almost the same.

@@DKFX1 just to add. Laptop webcams usually use USB internally. So, you are often able to just wire them up to a usb cable, and then use like any other usb webcam.

How did you connect the accelerometer for inputshaper to your PC/Laptop?

@@Angelmeister336 I followed this video. Only difference I haven't used pico and axl but arduino and mpu because Ive had that from previous project but principle is the same ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W_VHbT_tsZw.html

@@clixium Wow thank you, I've already watched that video and wonderd if I could do this with an arduino that is laying around, but you are the proof it's possible!

Same here. Rufus needed to downland some dependencies for the linux distro. Used .ISO instead of DD, to keep the USB drive at full capacity.

Same here!! I thought it was my USB port or drives. Was going crazy!!

mee to, etcher dont work, but RUFUS work perfectly :P

I am pretty sure one of my coworkers at the time recommended it basically as a cheap laptop that Erin could use for school. She inherited my previous gaming laptop which is way more speced out but they are solid work laptops.

Yeah, this was the most I have played around with it and I really get why so many like it.

Absolutely thank you :)

Awesome 🔥

@@ModBotArmy Thanks for the help, massively appreciated!

I have an old optiplex also that im wanting to use for this as well. It all looked like i could follow along but then he started using abbreviations ive never heard of much less understanding what they mean and do. Plus I dont have internet and not sure if linux/klipper will work offline

@@gsdtdeaux7 He used typical computer jargon. Once you have everything installed it doesn't require a internet connection to use. To install the software you do need a internet connection.

I'm sorry at 10 minutes and 55 seconds you broke something down. I will check this out. Thank you dude again. Always a great video. Just got to watch them through

Interesting, I wonder what version of Mint it was. So far I have not had any issues with the version shown in video. That is good to know though.

I also did the same, and I love it. 1.5Ghz CPU and 8GB Ram expandable to 16. way more than enough for Klipper.

That is awesome. I am so used to shuffling printers around that it didnt make sense to me at first but many do not move their printers around nearly as much and it is a great solution.

@@ModBotArmy Actually I intend to upgrade my Anycubic Chiron to Klipper - with a very heavy 400by400 bed being a bed-slinger practicaly cries for input shaping. Due to the big size there should be no problem to integrate the D3003 board directly down in the printers base. As the power supply in stock configuration is at it's limit anyway, it is recommended to use it only for bed heating and a seperate PSU for printerboard, steppers and hotend. As the D3003 can be powered with 24V, I will choose a second PSU with enough current to supply the D3003 also. This is one other advantage of Thin Clients: They are small enough to be integrated in a printer base. You could even use some leg extensions on a prusa mini with prusas printerbase and place the d3003 under it. You just have to upgrade the power supply by one with some Watt more power to avoid using two supplys. While the printer becomes a bit higher, it is as easy to transport as before (even more easy as the stock printer, as with the base PSU and spool-holder are integrated also. As theese boards are designed to be cooled passive, you can place them even in a warmer environment if you simply add a fan. Only if you use the printer inside an enclosure I would recommend to put the Thin Client outside the enclosure as you should to for the PSU also. But a printer with enclosure would not count as a "mobile" device anyway, I guess... (Actually I just transported a mk3s+ inside an Ikea Lack enclosure, stumbled and droped it - luckely just some ugly scratches on one of the doors but anything else survived. An experience I do not want to repeat...)

Using a hp T620 thin client. It works really well and it is really quick with timelapse renders. It feels much more responsive than a PI when ssh'd in, although some of this might be Ubuntu optimisations that have make Ubuntu feel fast.

Anything that comes from a corporate environment, if you need more than one of it you can usually get a good deal by adding _joblot_ to the eBay search.

There are step-by-step instructions if you look around some. You'll need an otg adapter and some way to charge the phone while connected to the printer. I started this process and could ssh into kiauh on the phone but lacked the right cables to hook it up to the printer, so I ended up using an Ubuntu partition on my laptop instead

@@MrStoffzor hey i know im 2 months late but i cant find any instructions. Can you help?

@@DigerTorsk yeah....this seems like an awesome option

It would add also the camera

With a raspberry pi pico. There are various tutorials that cover this

@@santiagopostorivo no need, with native USB adxl it's almost plug and play with the provided instructions by the manufacturer (Trianglelab)

@@MrStoffzor I know they exist. But the option I mentioned is easy and cheap to do. I have done that myself and spent less than 20 dollars

I needed to know this too. I get stuck at the first log into mainsail, it just says 'klipper reports an error, once it's fixed restart' but no clue what needs fixing. Really wish I had the skills to make Klipper for Windows.

It's board specific. So if you are using multiple of the same board they will all communicate on the same interface. For example, the octopus pro PA11/PA12. This will be the same for any octopus pro you flash. Where it differs PC side is each config file will have different serials identifying which main board is for each printer.

I also have a box of old windows tablets without batteries that I am wondering if I can hardwire in and just use to control one printer. This may be something we will play around with on a stream :)

Klipper all of the things! haha, it has been great. I am hoping to hook up a few garage printers to it so that I can control them from inside.

This T420 (should) have an ssd in it. I bought it for Erin and upgraded the Ram and HDD if I remember correctly. But agreed, transfer/read speeds are so much slower on the old hdds.

Linux Mint is a very nice OS. The only linux I have used is regular Ubuntu and Mint and I think I prefer Mint overall. Hmm, with KlipperScreen that may be the case. I am almost positive if you have a standard LCD screen you can print without network connection at least the local files but I have not experimented with it myself yet.

aside from nvidia gpus and old amd ones, plus the odd wireless adapter, about *every common piece of hardware* you could plug into a computer works out of the box on most big distros, especially for bog standard x86 computers.

doesn't work.

I think you can. You just use a seperate Pi pico to do it. Nero 3D has a video on that.