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?
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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.
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.
I’ve found
LePotatois great, as long as my use case fits the processor speed.LibreComputer(maker ofLePotato) also offers Renegade for a bit more oompf.The downside is that there’s far fewer pre built images available. The saving grace is that stock
Armbianis fantastic, and can often be upgraded to match the pre built image I want with a fewaptcommands.Edit: I haven’t run
OctoPrintonLePotatobut my educated guess is that it would run just fine.When using
Armbianto host projects similar toOctoPrint, I have needed to follow theInstall from Sourceinstructions from the project site. The experience wasn’t terrible, for me, but I am really good at getting stuff to compile.I have run OctoPrint on a LePotato, and it runs absolutely fine for me. It feels responsive and good, though I have no frame of reference for comparison.
Installing it was easy, as there was a simple guide and program available. :::
Yeah LibreComputer boards have become my go to SBC now, if you’re fine headless the debian minimal image they offer is solid base image. I use Kiauh to handle my klipper setups, makes setting up klipper and related super simple, I think I recall an option to install octoprint with it as well.
Intel N100 mini PC*.
*= those are on the same process node as the problematic i7/i9 13th and 14th gen CPU. With Intel this quiet on the true cause/issue they might as well also be considered faulty.
Weren’t they pretty straight up saying it was a microcode issue with a patch coming out? Affecting 65 watt+ CPUs which also wasn’t in the limelight since only the high end i7/i9 CPUs were seeing significant failures being reported. I’d imagine a mini PC would be pretty safe.
They confirmed that there was a range of CPUs affected by a fabrication issue outside of the press release that went to media. So while we know about the i7/i9, manufacturing process is often shared between different CPU models and with Intel being opaque about what they found it’s hard to understand what actually happened and what’s truly unaffected.
Ref: GamersNexus
https://youtu.be/OVdmK1UGzGsAt this point, it is not a technical issue but also a trust issue:
They started with people overclocking their CPUs and that is the cause.
They moved on to the mainboard vendors are the bad guy.
Now they are at we screwed up but the microcode update will fix everything and yes we had oxidation issues we told nobody about and no we won’t recall those units we know are faulty (oxidation issue).
only the high end i7/i9 CPUs were seeing significant failures being reported
I think Intel now says it is everything with 65W+ TDP.
Orange Pi has disappointed me. I bought an (IIRC) Orange Pi 5B.
There is no sane “boot from SD” button to hold so if there is an SD card in it it tries to boot from that unconditionally. Even if the SD card is not bootable. This might be a dealbreaker for you because it would be nice to have an Octoprint board with expandable storage that didn’t act stupid. That’s what I wanted.
One of the USB ports is also just fucked. Putting anything in it knocks out the entire USB bus on that side of the board until a restart.
I won’t be buying another board from them.
I have an orange pi zero 2 and run Obico’s octoprint image on it. Works great.
Ive been running octoprint on an android phone reliably for a bit now.
The camera didn’t work perfectly for a reason I forget now though, so I use another ipcamera to watch the print
I have it running on a Libre Computer Renegade (kind of a big brother to Le Potato)
It works really well for me. Not sure about now, but when I set it up there wasn’t a way to get the actual Octoprint image to boot on it, so I used Octoprint Deploy.
I’m in camp Klipper and built my printer during the PI shortage. I did find a non-scalped PI400 (the one with a built in keyboard), but my fallback was going to be an x86 based SBC. They’re cheap and readily available. I suspect one would work well with octoprint.
Just curious what your issue with raspberry pi is?
There was a period where they were hard to get. Then they strayed from their roots about being affordable, simple computer. The mission as it started isn’t what they do anymore. It’s lost its luster.
There aren’t any alternatives that follow the RPi’s original mission, they’re all for-profit. And I’m not sure you’ll find a more affordable board than the $15 Pi Zero 2.
