In the last few blog posts, I reviewed the RPI Night Vision Camera from MakerFocus and the OctoSlack plugin for Octoprint. Still, I will explain the troubleshooting and setting up of Octoprint ender-3.
About two weeks ago now, I had found an old Raspberry Pi 7″ Touchscreen in my closet from my older brother. I instantly thought of setting it up with Octoprint, so I grabbed a Raspberry Pi and started researching using a touchscreen with Octoprint. I found a plugin called Octoscreen that is used for a Raspberry Pi Touchscreen for a user interface of Octoprint. I needed a plugin similar to this one because it will usually display the CLI (Command Line Interface) instead of loading an easy UI to use. So after a couple of tutorial watching, I got to work on setting up my Octoprint once again. Unfortunately, I ran straight into a problem. This was the same problem I have had before. The Raspberry PI would not connect to my Wi-Fi router. After about six hours, I got it to kind of work with an old Wi-Fi adapter, but after a restart the next day, it stopped working again.
So instead, I ordered a new Raspberry Pi, the current one I was using was about seven years old because my brother Nicholas used to use it. Once the new Raspberry Pi arrived, after about 5 minutes of looking at it and its specs, I installed Octoprint on it, and after installing Octoscreen, everything was set. Except for printing the case. I found this case on Thingiverse and went straight to printing. Once it was finished printing, I put it together and added the final touches with also printing a case for the camera. It is now set up and ready to go.
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