OctoPi GUI Setup

A quick and easy guide to setting up OctoPi for beginners with zero experience. Follow these steps to setup OctoPi OS on your Raspberry Pi in a few basic steps regardless of your machine's operating system.

So what exactly is OctoPrint? Here is a list of things OctoPrint allows you to do:

• Wirelessly upload G-code files from a computer to a 3D printer
• Manually control a 3D printer (moving the X-, Y-, and Z-axes as well as forcing extrusion)
• Monitor print temperature and change print settings
• Set up a webcam to view the Print in real time and create time lapse videos
• Slice models using CuraEngine Legacy
• Customize operation with numerous plug-ins

Installation

Hardware Prerequisites:

• Raspberry Pi (Model 3B or later, Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero W not recommended)
• 5.1V/2.5 A Micro USB power supply (For the RPi)
• MicroSD card (preferably 16GB or larger)
• MicroSD card reader
• USB Mouse and Keyboard
• HDMI Monitor
• Stable WiFi
• Desktop/Laptop

Preparing the MicroSD Card:

• Download the latest image of OctoPi from https://octoprint.org/download/

• Next download an etching tool: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

• Insert the MicroSD card into the MicroSD card reader and connect it to your machine.

• Format the MicroSD card (FAT32 formatting only)

• Using Etcher, flash the disk image of the OctoPi OS onto the MicroSD card

• Once the flashing is complete, insert the MicroSD card into the Raspberry Pi

Setting up the Raspberry Pi:

• Connect the Raspberry Pi to the monitor, mouse and the keyboard and power it up.

• Your Raspberry Pi will boot up automatically.

• After the boot is complete, you will see the following:

• octopi login: pi
• Password : raspberry

You are now sucessfully logged in!

Enable GUI:

• Enter the following command into the bash terminal:

sudo raspi-config

• Re-enter the password.

• Use the arrow keys to navigate to "Network Options"

• Select "N2 Wi-fi"

• Enter the SSID (Name of your Wifi network), and click "".

• Enter the password of the Wifi (if none, leave blank), and click "".

• Click ""

You are now back in the bash command line.

Enter:

sudo /home/pi/scripts/install-desktop

• Enter the password, press any key to continue.

• You will be asked whether you want the Pi to boot up into a desktop environment by default. Type ‘yes’ and hit Enter. We can disable this functionality later on if we want to.

• The resources for the desktop GUI will now download and install automatically

• When complete, Type:

sudo reboot

The Pi will now reboot to OctoPi Desktop GUI.

• Enter the username and password.

Your OctoPi GUI is now ready!

To update your RPi with all the latest packages and releases, type the following:

sudo apt update

• Enter the password.

sudo apt full-upgrade

• When prompted, enter "Y".

After the processes have finished type:

sudo reboot

Your system will reboot with all the changes.

Your Raspberry Pi - OctoPi is up and ready to use!

Up Next: How to enable remote access to OctoPi using VNC:

https://github.com/shandilyaguy247/Enable_Remote_Access_to_Raspberry_Pi-OctoPi_Using_VNC

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**Harshit Shandilya - (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshitshandilya/ **

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Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am)
4. Push to the branch (git push origin)
5. Create a new Pull Request
6. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.