OctoPiControlPanel uses a Raspberry PI touchscreen to control 3D printers using OctoPrint API.
OctoPiControlPanel requires Pygame to be installed. Pygame can be downloaded from http://pygame.org.
OctoPiControlPanel is inspired by Colin Edwards OctoPiPanel mods https://github.com/DDRBoxman/OctoPiPanel.git.
OctoPiPanel is developed by Jonas Lorander (jonas@haksberg.net) https://github.com/jonaslorander/OctoPiPanel.
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- Python 2.7 (should already be installed)
- PyGame (should already be installed)
- requests Python module
OctoPiControlPanel can be run on Windows as well to ease development.
The setup is pretty basic. You'll be needing Python 2.7 which should be installed by default, Git, and pip.
cd ~
sudo apt-get install python-pip git
git clone https://github.com/mcecchi/OctoPiControlPanel.git
cd OctoPiControlPanel
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
- You need to activate the REST API in you OctoPrint settings and get your API-key with Octoprint Versions older then 1.1.1, otherwise you will be fine.
- Put the URL to you OctoPrint installation in the baseurl-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file. For instance
http://localhost:5000orhttp://192.168.0.111:5000. - Put your API-key in the apikey-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file.
Start OctoPiControlPanel by browsing to the folder of the Python-file and execute
sudo python ./OctoPiControlPanel.py &
In a screen session (auto start scripts will be coming later). Yes, sudo must be used for the time being.
Make OctoPiControlPanel.py executable and then copy the script files to their respective folders and make the init script executable:
chmod +x OctoPiControlPanel.py
sudo cp scripts/octopicontrolpanel.init /etc/init.d/octopicontrolpanel
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/octopicontrolpanel
sudo cp scripts/octopicontrolpanel.default /etc/default/octopicontrolpanel
Then add the script to autostart using sudo update-rc.d octopicontrolpanel defaults.
This will also allow you to start/stop/restart the OctoPiControlPanel daemon via
sudo service octopicontrolpanel {start|stop|restart}
PygButton courtesy of Al Sweigart (al@inventwithpython.com)
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