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Octoprint


The problem with installing manually is if you want to use the Arducam motorized focus camera.

Installing manually
The generic setup instructions boil down to

  1. Installing Python 3, including pip.
  2. Creating a virtual environment somewhere: python -m venv OctoPrint
  3. Installing OctoPrint into that virtual environment: OctoPrint/bin/pip install OctoPrint
  4. OctoPrint may then be started through ./OctoPrint/bin/octoprint serve or with an absolute path /path/to/OctoPrint/bin/octoprint serve

This starts it up manually

/path/to/OctoPrint/bin/octoprint serve

https://community.octoprint.org/t/setting-up-octoprint-on-a-raspberry-pi-running-raspbian-or-raspberry-pi-os/2337

Basic Installation

cd ~
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-venv git libyaml-dev build-essential
mkdir OctoPrint && cd OctoPrint
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

OctoPrint and it's Python dependencies can then be installed using pip:

pip install pip --upgrade
pip install octoprint

Note

If this installs an old version of OctoPrint, pip probably still has something cached. In that case add --no-cache-dir to the install command, e.g.

pip install --no-cache-dir octoprint
To make this permanent, clean pip's cache:

rm -r ~/.cache/pip

Starting the server for the first time

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint serve
2020-11-03 17:39:17,979 - octoprint.startup - INFO - ***************************
2020-11-03 17:39:17,980 - octoprint.startup - INFO - Starting OctoPrint 1.4.2
2020-11-03 17:39:17,980 - octoprint.startup - INFO - ***************************

Automatic start up

Download the init script files from OctoPrint's repository, move them to their respective folders and make the init script executable:

wget https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/raw/master/scripts/octoprint.service && sudo mv octoprint.service /etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service

Adjust the paths to your octoprint binary in /etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service. If you set it up in a virtualenv as described above make sure your
/etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service looks like this:

ExecStart=/home/pi/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint

Then add the script to autostart using sudo systemctl enable octoprint.service.

This will also allow you to start/stop/restart the OctoPrint daemon via

sudo service octoprint {start|stop|restart}


Make everything accessible on port 80

If you want to have nicer URLs or simply need OctoPrint to run on port 80 (http's default port) due to some network restrictions, I recommend using HAProxy 593 as a reverse proxy instead of configuring OctoPrint to run on port 80. This has the following advantages:

  • OctoPrint does not need to run with root privileges, which it would need to to be able to bind to port 80 thanks to Linux privileged port restrictions
  • You can make mjpg-streamer accessible on port 80 as well
  • You can add authentication to OctoPrint
  • Depending on the HAProxy version you can also use SSL to access OctoPrint

Setup on Raspbian is as follows:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt install haproxy

I'm using the following configuration in /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg, for further examples take a look at the post here 385:

global
        maxconn 4096
        user haproxy
        group haproxy
        daemon
        log 127.0.0.1 local0 debug

defaults
        log     global
        mode    http
        option  httplog
        option  dontlognull
        retries 3
        option redispatch
        option http-server-close
        option forwardfor
        maxconn 2000
        timeout connect 5s
        timeout client  15min
        timeout server  15min

frontend public
        bind :::80 v4v6
        use_backend webcam if { path_beg /webcam/ }
        default_backend octoprint

backend octoprint
        reqrep ^([^\ :]*)\ /(.*)     \1\ /\2
        option forwardfor
        server octoprint1 127.0.0.1:5000

backend webcam
        reqrep ^([^\ :]*)\ /webcam/(.*)     \1\ /\2
        server webcam1  127.0.0.1:8080

This will make OctoPrint accessible under http:<your Raspi's IP>/ and make mjpg-streamer accessible under http:<your Raspi's IP>/webcam/. You'll also need to modify /etc/default/haproxy and enable HAProxy by setting ENABLED to 1. After that you can start HAProxy by issuing the following command

sudo service haproxy start

Pointing your browser to http:<your Raspi's IP> should greet you with OctoPrint's UI. Now open the settings and switch to the webcam tab or alternatively open ~/.octoprint/config.yaml. Set the webcam's stream URL from http:<your Raspi's IP>:8080/?action=stream to /webcam/?action=stream (leave the snapshotUrl at http://127.0.0.1:8080/?action=snapshot!) and reload the page.


If everything works you can add the following lines to ~/.octoprint/config.yaml (just create it if it doesn't exist yet) to make the server bind only to the loopback interface:

server:
    host: 127.0.0.1

Restart the server. OctoPrint should still be available on port 80, including the webcam feed (if enabled).
Updating & changing release channels & rolling back
OctoPrint should offer to update itself automatically and also allow you to switch to other Release Channels out of the box.
If for whatever reason you want or need to perform any of this manually however, perform the following commands to install <version> of OctoPrint

source ~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/activate
pip install octoprint==<version>

e.g.

source ~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/activate
pip install octoprint==1.4.0


Support restart/shutdown through OctoPrint's system menu

In the UI, under Settings > Commands, configure the following commands:

  • Restart OctoPrint: sudo service octoprint restart
  • Restart system: sudo shutdown -r now
  • Shutdown system: sudo shutdown -h now

Optional: Webcam
If you also want webcam and timelapse support, you'll need to download and compile MJPG-Streamer:

cd ~
sudo apt install subversion libjpeg62-turbo-dev imagemagick ffmpeg libv4l-dev cmake
git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer.git
cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
make


Heads-up

The required packages depend on the underlying version of Debian! The above is what should work on the current Debian Stretch or Buster based images of Raspbian.

For Jessie use:

sudo apt install subversion libjpeg62-turbo-dev imagemagick libav-tools libv4l-dev cmake
For Wheezy or older (you should update...) use:

sudo apt install subversion libjpeg8-dev imagemagick libav-tools libv4l-dev cmake

This should hopefully run through without any compilation errors. You should then be able to start the webcam server using:

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so" -o "./output_http.so"

For some webcams (including the PS3 Eye) you'll need to force the YUV mode by using the following start command:

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so -y" -o "./output_http.so" 
bdev/octoprint_setup.txt · Last modified: 2021/10/28 15:25 by richard