Remote Progress Monitoring?  

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Why not just run Octoprint? There's a number of good apps on phones for remote admin for it.

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Yeah, your ambitions seem like overkill, unless you are looking for a fun project and money is not an issue. I use octoprint to monitor the print and print bed. I also use a cheap IP camera to monitor the printer and surroundings for any other problems. I also use a wemo switch as an emergency kill switch.

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Step 1: Buy a Raspberry Pi B+
Step 2: Install and configure Octoprint
Step 3: Connect Pi B+ to your printer with the USB cable that came with the printer

Done.

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Actually, it is really easy to do.

Purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 or Zero
Install OctoPrint on it
Go to AstroPrint.com and sign up for a free account
Install the Astroprint plugin in octoprint and configure it
Download the Astroprint App on your phone.

There you go, you are done. No need to open ports on the firewall or anything. Get the best of Octoprint with the secure remote monitoring of Astroprint.

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Step 1: Buy a Raspberry Pi B+
Step 2: Install and configure Octoprint
Step 3: Connect Pi B+ to your printer with the USB cable that came with the printer

Done.

Actually, it is really easy to do.

Purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 or Zero
Install OctoPrint on it
Go to AstroPrint.com and sign up for a free account
Install the Astroprint plugin in octoprint and configure it
Download the Astroprint App on your phone.

There you go, you are done. No need to open ports on the firewall or anything. Get the best of Octoprint with the secure remote monitoring of Astroprint.

And connect a webcam or a Raspberry pi Camera 😉

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Hey,

Could somebody using Octoprint clarify some questions for me?
I am looking into getting a rasberry pi and cant realy figure out some things:

I want to use the rasberry Pi mainly to monitor during printing. But still print from sd. (Or at least start the print in front of the printer without any computer)
So can i still print from sd with octoprint installed?
Can i transfer Gcode to the sd card via octoprint and then still print from sd?

I was thinking about using the rasberry Pi for some minor fan controll for aditional Housing ventilation. Is it possible to have anything else on a rasberry pi while octoprint is running?

thanks for any information.

Cheers
Oliver

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No, you can't copy to sd card from octoprint. But there are sd cards with wifi that would let you do that.

I use the telegram plugin which lets me send a /status command that returns with a snapshot from the webcam. If printing from octoprint you can get those sent automatically as the print progresses. Also, you can send to octoprint directly from Slicer PE edition. The latest release candidate of octoprint adds the ability to detect when the print has started from the sd card, but I don't know if that works with the MK3.

There's a plugin to control things like fan for temperature control in the printer's enclosure. You can wire up a temp sensor to the Pi and set parameters for the fan.

My only complaint is that octoprint doesn't render nicely on the Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen. I tried a plugin that changes the UI for smaller devices but didn't like that, either. This is how I start the prints. Usually send to octoprint from my laptop then click the start button on the touchscreen on top of my enclosure.

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No, you can't copy to sd card from octoprint. But there are sd cards with wifi that would let you do that. .

Upload to SD is available in octoprint

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Actually, it is really easy to do.

Purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 or Zero
Install OctoPrint on it
Go to AstroPrint.com and sign up for a free account
Install the Astroprint plugin in octoprint and configure it
Download the Astroprint App on your phone.

There you go, you are done. No need to open ports on the firewall or anything. Get the best of Octoprint with the secure remote monitoring of Astroprint.

Octoprintanywhere https://www.getanywhere.io/pub/login #

Re: Remote Progress Monitoring?

Actually, it is really easy to do.

Purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 or Zero
Install OctoPrint on it
Go to AstroPrint.com and sign up for a free account
Install the Astroprint plugin in octoprint and configure it
Download the Astroprint App on your phone.

There you go, you are done. No need to open ports on the firewall or anything. Get the best of Octoprint with the secure remote monitoring of Astroprint.

Octoprintanywhere https://www.getanywhere.io/pub/login #

EXACTLY THIS.
Super simple, you can see your printer from ANYWHERE, Low bandwidth... and if your printer is making a giant goo-ball of unpleasntness, you can easily click "STOP". Some of the other "remote" options listed above, allows you to monitor, but you can't stop it remotely.

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With the AstroPrint plugin it is full featured. Start, stop, monitor, slice. Whatever you want to do. It has both a webpage and a iPhone app with a really easy interface.

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Thanks for the feedback.

I'll break out one of my Rpi boards and give it a try. Perhaps it will get me closer to what I want to do, but I suspect that the delay introduced by USB, etc. would prevent me from achieving what I was hoping to investigate. I am attaching some accelerometers to the bed and print-head to investigate the vibrations during printing. Getting the firmware to spit out data that can be correlated to vibrations would be an interesting first step...