Ah, what a great video for the current Pi situation. I overpayed on ebay because I wasn't confident about the software part for the RPi alternatives, but this makes it easy for those of us who just need good instructions.
Watch out, don't interpret "success" videos like this one to mean that the orange pi is actually ready for prime-time or is able to generally replace the raspberry pi. It's not, and it can't. I just spent a week of frustration trying to get streaming video going over hdmi, on an orpi zero2. Big fail, video codec nightmare, quick solution was to fall back on the rpi, where video "just works". Try it: open file manager on your snazzy orange pi desktop, navigate to a video file, double click... and wonder how they can sell these! If you don't need what it can't do, as here, then goody for you. I don't see nearly enough warning out there about this years-long, still-not-solved issue.
My man this video is great. Appreciate you sharing the steps you have here. Thus far I have a btt M8P with a CB4 orange pi variant with 32gb of emmc memory and klipper and mainsale running off of it just fine. Thanks again for the links also.
Just to shorten and speed up the updating you can use: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y the && combines both update and upgrade into one line and the -y automatically says yes instead of waiting for you to say yes.
You got my subscription when you said "Make sure you eject the SD card so that you don't corrupt it". Not only do you give correct, timely information but you understand it correctly and explain why that information is important. Truly a CC that is at least at my knowledge level, probably well beyond me. If you all stumbled on this video you really need to listen to this man and SUBSCRIBE! Edit: One suggestion I would make is to add chapters to your videos. Thanks again for the information.
Nice to see another video using an orange pi. I just installed klipper, klipperscreen, and octoprint on my Orange Pi 3 LTS. I used an old 8-bit Creality to try this on. After a few issues like have to add a 5 second delay to crowsnest to get the camera to start up it seems to work. I don't care for this version of Octoprint though as the web camera does not work so I probably will not use it.
Congratulations on the content. I used this board in my old diy i3 (also with RAMPS), it worked great, unfortunately orangepi's GPIO uses different libraries than raspberry pi's, which makes the use of the GPIO by klipper a little bit tricky, in my case I chose to use the RAMPS auxiliary pins to use the ADXL sensor. Another cool option is to change the hostname so that it is easier to connect to mainsail through the browser without the need to use the SBC IP address.
I'm running Klipper on a Le Potato. Same form factor as a Pi 3 and has an EMMC port. 4x USB2.0, 100MB ethernet and no WIFI. 2GB RAM for $40. add about $20 for a 16GB EMMC card and install Klipper using KIUAH.
@@alejandroperez5368 in my opinion, wifi bad. I'm in a wifi saturated area so I run Ethernet where possible. The potato only has 100mbps but then does it really need more than that for a klipper web UI?
Freaking thank you. I was reading into pi alternative and for some reason I didn't see anyone using Orange Pi Zero 2 and if I do see it, there's always an issue that goes along with it. Armbian is definitely a no go even for now but since the manufacturers have the debian image ig that one will work. h616 chipset is just a pain in the butt for a lot of people it seems.
I bought an ITX mainboard with solderd cpu, add some RAM, notebook powersupply, done. Power draw 12 watts, plenty usb ports. Installed linux mint, had to edit a line for the kiauh installer, there were oudated library versions for old ubuntu versions. That's all.
Good timing! I'm about to order an Orange Pi for my first Voron build. I've been checking rPilocator for weeks, but the prospect of actually getting a Zero 2 W isn't quite worth the pain.
Been running an orange pi 3 lts for about a year and it’s been perfect. About the same price as what Nero is using but more raspberry pi 4 form factor. I’m no raspberry pi genius, so, if I can do it anyone could.
I recommended to install wiringop for orange and test UART before connecting who use UART, some times not working. The best way Orange Pi 3 LTS because have memory on board and cheap. The same time when you will connect adxl 345 on pi3 you need to manual activate cs pin via wiringOP gpio mode ALT2 15-pin number.For klipper screen BTT HDMI5 but waiting when they add HDMI with 90 degrees connectors
For what it's worth, rather than the buck converter, you can plug it into the pi connector on the SKR Pico, just as you would a raspberry pi or BTT Pi 1.2.
Great video, but how do you use the gpio pins which are needed for the accelerometer calibration? Or do you use a USB accelerometer adxl345? I have yet to find a guide for the orange pi on how to setup an acceleromter.
i can get connect thru ssh and do all the installs and updates...but after i get the ip address and unplug it and try to login to via wifi....i can see it and asks for my user and pass...but when i put in my pass...nothing happens...just space.....nada....nothing......do i leave the usb card in? do i take it out?
Thanks great video, all works but I want to use UART5 on th orangepi. Thats the standard pi out for the BTT Picoboard but dosnt work. Do you know what for serial device i need to use? Regards Tom
Hi, i know it was year ago posted, but i would like to know if u colud successfully install rpi mcu on opi (so use gpio on orange pi). Besiedes running uart/i2c/spi from the gpio, as that part pretty much all of sbc can handle with klipper via drivers, i can't find any info regarding using orange pi gpio to drive directly stuff in the klipper.
Hey man, I followed your tutorial. Managed to get the klipper, moonraker and mainsail going but I cant get to the Ui via my web browser. The only difference is I'm using OrangePi3B insead of Zero 2. I'm sure klipper and moonraker is running because I can get to IP:7125. Its saying klipper is running and the page it self proves that moonraker is running. Would be cool if you could help figure this out
im downloading the debian bullseye server linux version 5.16.17 and every time i try and do anything with it it just says corrupt ? anyone getting this too?
Is it possible to use a monitor (connected via micro hdmi), a mouse and a keyboard ( connected via usb ) to set up wifi instead of using ethernet cable?
you are a genius, i already managed to start the orange pi pc with klipper on my ender 5 plus do you know how to configure the adxl345 accelerometer? I can't, thanks for any help
Did you use the same image linked in this video for your OPI PC? I'm stuck on the part where I try to connect on SSH. I already connected the ethernet port but it just could not connect.
Thnx Nero, I think with a little investigation this board can be used in combination with BTT Pico as you showed us in your YT video with the RPI Zero 2.
Yes. You'll need to set a static IP for the connection on both sides. It's usually referred to as a peer to peer network. If you want to access the internet via your computer you'll need to setup routing on it.
This SBC is heavily overpriced for is compute power. A better alternative is a used Thinkcenter M73 for CAD$100, if not lower, that will allow you to run kipper for 2 machines or more.
There making em as fast as they can, i mean think about it, they are losing money due to lost sales, why would they want that Problem is while they make the board, there limited to the supply of the broadcom chip (and others) thats whats limiting their production capacity IIRC
Klipper on an orange pi zero works fine. I've been running it for a while now. The only drawback is that when using WiFi, it gets a new IP address every time you restart your opi zero
Diffferent CPU, the one on the RPI is much more in demands than the random variants used by other boards + theres a stupidly high demand for RPI`s for bulk purchases to run things like Kiosks and informations screens
Are you also going to look into the Android TV boxes as alternatives? Those can be had for under $40 and most come with wifi and an OS already installed. You just need to set up Python so you can then run Klipper.
