I’m a huge fan of octoprint on raspberry pi. I’m not a huge fan of raspberry pi lately. I’ve heard of le potato and orange pi. Some searching shows that people have done it on both of those.

Does anyone have any experience running it on a small board computer other than raspi?

  • sylver_dragonEnglish
    16•5 months ago

    I run OctoPrint in a docker container on my home server. They have an official docker image available. And they also have a docker-compose.yaml file available.

    I’m quite happy with the setup. The server is more stable (for me) than a small board computer. I have the whole setup on a UPS. Management is dead simple. The only caveat is that the server and printer need to be fairly close to each other for the USB connection. In my setup that was already a given, they sit less than a foot apart because of where I wanted them.

    I have wanted to try out Klipper , and may well do that in docker as well, but my printer is a proprietary nightmare and Klipper isn’t currently an option.

    • @thegreekgeek@midwest.socialEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      I want to do this myself (to both free up my pi and not have to deal with underpower warnings) but my printer is a bit further away. I’ve had my eye on those USB via UTP devices for a while but a cursory search seems to imply there’d be timing issues.