What is the best way to set up an Octopi working on a creality CR6 max printer so that you can operate it remotely?

Answer 1

Actually this turned out to be incredibly easy. I got a raspberry pie 3A, and I just downloaded the octopi software onto an SD drive like one of the mini ones, and that has the operating system right on it. So, if you go to the raspberry Pi website they have a program that when you download it and you install it and then when you run it on your PC it gives you a list of operating systems that the raspberry Pi can use and one of them is the octopi.

So all you have to do is just select the octopi from that list and it will install it onto your SD drive. And then once that's installed on there you just have to configure your Wi-Fi so it knows to connect to Wi-Fi which is a file folder on your SD drive You can fill in the SSID number and your passcode to your Wi-Fi. Then all you have to do is on a computer that's connected to your Wi-Fi or like a smartphone or whatever go to the web address for your octopi which is 192.168.87.250.

If you type that into your browser address bar It will open up the octopi GUI which is basically a web page. From there you can do your whatever configurations you need to and you can get it up and running. So then to connect it to your printer all you have to do is connect the output that's on that raspberry Pi so like the USB output put that into the USB input of your 3D printer. Typically they're like a micro or a mini end on one side and a USB-a and that's required.

There's a caveat here though, on some of the printers that are make reality made and maybe even some other ones - if they're running off of regular power the USB can sometimes cause issues to the printer because it can't decide what it's trying to power the motherboard off of if it's going to try to power it off the USB or if it's going to power it off of the actual printer itself the the main power source so you might get it flickering back and forth and if it does that it can actually fry your your motherboard so what I did on my USB cable is I went in very carefully and I cut the power wire off of it so the red one I cut that and made it so it wasn't an actual power wire anymore so I just had the three main wires that were running.

The the ground and the two data. So those connect to the raspberry Pi in the still in the regular USB cable and then that connects to the 3D printer and when you go on to your computer to that web page you can tell it to connect your to your printer and once it connects it knows all the things that it needs to know. Like you'll have to specify your printer type or whatever your bed size, but it'll give you a graphical interface that you can raise your printer up or lower it or or tell it to print an actual print from. It's pretty slick, because you can also get a camera that goes with your raspberry Pi if you train that onto your printer you can see exactly how it's doing and you can be able to access this anywhere.

I would recommend using some type of SSH or get some kind of a security thing in there though because it is open Wi-Fi onto your network so it is hackable if somebody was so wanted to, but if you're not concerned about that that's as hard as it gets to set up It's pretty slick basically it's just get your raspberry Pi get your operating system onto your SD card hook it up to your printer and you're good to go.