3D Printer Controller

This document contains the setup instruction to run this contoller in Raspberry Pi.

MODULES

• File Processor

Setup

Virtual Environment Setup

# Create a new virtual environment named env
virtualenv env

# Windows
env\Scipts\activate

# In Linux
source env/bin/activate

Installing Required Libraries

• Install pyserial library to interact with serial port.

  pip install pyserial

• Install paho-mqtt for handling MQTT communication.

  pip install paho-mqtt

• Install python-dotenv for dealing with environment variables.

  pip install python-dotenv

• Install wget for downloading files from Internet

  pip install wget

List Available Serial Ports

To use this command pyserial must be installed.

python -m serial.tools.list_ports -v