I just downloaded OctoPi’s OS on to my Raspberry Pi B+ and hooked it up to my CTC. But when I go on the website to access the printer it says there is no printer detected. But I connected my Pi to the printer with the cable that came with it and the Pi is connected to the OctoPi website. Dose OctoPi work with the CTC printer and what am I doing wrong?
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I could be wrong, but OctoPi does not work with Sailfish/Makerbot based printers.
You must use the gpx plug in for octoprint. Yes, it works.
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I’m using Octoprint on a cubietruck embedded device, basically the same principle as OctoPi but instead of installing on the RPi, I got it running on cubietruck (AllWinner A20 SoC board) and it is as adamcooks said, it works perfectly provided that you use the GPX plugin - even for dual printing.
My cubietruck is connected to the LAN, I generate the gcode files on ReplicatorG/Slic3r on whatever PC I’m using and upload them to Octoprint. The printer is connected over USB to the cubietruck, so I just use Octoprint + GPX to print the uploaded files on my CTC-3D.
In your case, since OctoPi are basically specific Octoprint instructions for the Raspberry Pi, it should be even more accessible to get it to work, but feel free to compare notes against mine in the post above.
I’m currently running Octoprint 1.2.6 stable + GPX Plugin 0.3.16 stable
An OctoPrint plug-in to use GPX as the protocol layer underneath rather than replacing g-code to talk to s3g/x3g machines, for example, a FlashForge. - GitHub - markwal/OctoPrint-GPX: An OctoPrint ...
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gaehl
December 19, 2015, 3:22am
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Yes, it does work but because our CTC are a Makerbot Clones you need to do a lot of extra work.
for the serial connection set serial port to /dev/tty/ACM0 and Baudrate to 115200 you should then be able to connect.
You will need the GPX plugin as others have said, remember our is a Replicator 1 Dual.
With much fiddling I even got mine working with Cura.
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Thanks. I will try this later today because I’m going out now.
I did what you said with the serial ports and Baudrate and installed the GPX plugin from the settings menu but when i click the connect button the Machine State says Error: Connection error, see Terminal tab. and the Terminal tab says:
Unexpected error while connecting to serial port: /dev/ttyACM0 IOError: ‘[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/pi/.octoprint/data/GPX/gpx.ini’’ @ comm.py:_openSerial:1312 (hook GPX)
nvm. I don’t know how but i got it to work thx for the help.
What did you do to get your printer working with cura? I prefer cura to makerbot but I can’t get it working, even after running it through gpx.
