Complete Octolapse Guide - Tips, tricks and troubleshooting for 3D printing timelapses
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2018
- Frequently requested, this is a comprehensive guide to getting Octolapse to create those 3D printing time lapses that look like magic. Just in time for the new 0.3.4 release, this step by step guide takes you through configuration, setup, tips, tricks and troubleshooting so you can use the Octoprint plugin effectively.
I’ve tried to keep this as brief as possible but there is a lot to cover. Sorry if some bits feel a bit rushed. Use the detailed instructions below to assist if you are unsure. Click the question mark icons in Octoprint for a nice help page explaining that setting.
You can use a pi camera but I found the ribbon cable limiting and the available camera configuration options more difficult to hone.
Thanks to Formerlurker for this amazing plugin. If he comments with anything I’ve missed I will pin the post.
Original Octolapse setup video: • How to setup Octoprint...
Octolapse flexible webcam mount video: • Printable webcam mount...
HXJS S70 webcam: bit.ly/2zki1Bw
Logitech c930e webcam: amzn.to/2zf8BaI
Raspberry Pi 3b+ (Amazon): amzn.to/2OQIPhK
Raspberry Pi 3b+ (Banggood): bit.ly/2ziEOhn
Octopi: octoprint.org/download/
Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus.org/download/
Win32 Disk Imager:sourceforge.net/projects/win3...
Octolapse Troubleshooting: github.com/FormerLurker/Octol...
Step by step recap of the video:
1- Download and flash Octopi to SD card using win32 Disk Imager or similar
2- Access ‘boot’ partition and edit octopi.txt file using Notepad++:
If using a USB webcam, uncomment the line ‘’#camera_usb_options by removing the ‘#’.
Set desired resolution, frame rate and any other settings you wish.
If using a Raspi camera, uncomment the line ‘#camera_raspi_options’by removing the ‘#’.
Set desired parameters as you wish.
Reference for settings: discourse.octoprint.org/t/ava...
3- In the same file, change the last two lines to:
camera_http_webroot="./www"
camera_http_options=""
“Warning: If your instance of Octopi is accessible from the internet and you have enabled control.htm, unauthorized users WILL be able to change your camera settings (focus, white balance, zoom, pan, etc...). Consider this before implementing the above changes.”
4- Boot into Octoprint and install Octolapse from the plugin manager. Octoprint will reboot.
5- If you haven’t already, add your printer profile to the main Octoprint settings. Be sure to set the printer build volume accurately.
6- Go to settings - Octolapse and tick ‘Display real snapshot time’ in the Main Settings.
7- Switch to the Octolapse tab. Select any printer profile and click the gear. Enter the name of your printer and select your slicer from the drop down. Octolapse will use the same settings names and headings to make this easier for you. Enter all of the named slicer settings into Octolapse.
8- Change the snapshot command to ‘G4 P1’ in the printer profile. Add this to the layer change script in Simplify3D or the After layer change gcode in Slic3r. For Cura, it is more complicated:
A- Extensions - Post Processing - Modify G-code
B- Add a script - Search and replace
C- Then enter:
(;LAYER:).{1,}
G4 P1
Tick ‘Úse Regular Expressions’
9- Select your preferred stabilisation technique.
10 - Set your snapshot mode to ‘gcode’.
11- Set your preferred rendering settings for the final video.
12 - Click the settings gear for the camera. Test the ip address for the camera. Duplicate your Octoprint tab and add :8080 to the end. This will open up the webcam control interface. Click on stream and then right click and ‘open image in new tab’.
Set snapshot delay to 500 if you are using a wobbly webcam mount like me. Lower is better.
Scroll down and tick ‘Enable and apply preferences before print’. Make changes to camera settings and then click ‘Apply now’ to preview. You must turn off autofocus and focus your dummy object manually. Save everything when done.
13- Turn on test mode. Optionally turn off the standard (non Octolapse) timelapse mode.
14- Slice a very narrow and tall object. It doesn’t matter what because it won’t actually print. On the Octolapse tab, watch the preview thumbnail animation to see if the the snapshots are jerky or stabilised. If jerky you would cancel the print, up the Snapshot Delay and retest until stable.
15- Turn off test mode and create an Octolapse. Retrieve the video from the Timelapse tab.
16- (Optional) To reduce surface blobs, open the Octolapse printer profile and view non unique speeds. Change any clashes on both the Octolapse profile and your slicing profile. eg. 1200 can become 1201. In the snapshot options, tick ‘Enable feature detection’. Tick any features where you are happy for Octolapse to interrupt and take a snap shot.
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I have been binge watching the teacher tech videos for a few weeks now. Such good work. The detail, documentation and technical content is great.
I have found this channel very helpful and saved me many hours and headaches.
Thank you very much!
After years of 3D printing, I finally forced myself to connect one of my printers with Raspberry Pi and launch ocopti with octolapse plugin. I just want to say that your video is a perfect guideline with all important details. Thank you :)
Michael, thank you for this amazing tutorial. this is my first time today on time-lapse printing for my youtube channel. I certainly would have not been able to figure tis out without the help of your amazing video. thanks man. Good work.
This is such a good video - followed every step an parameter and now I'm getting perfect OctoLapse videos - excellent job and so well explained !!
I really like your tutorials. They have helped me a lot in getting better at 3D printing. Although this video was old and not using the latest versions of the software, it provided the necessary guidance to get me started. After a little trial and error, my first actual Octolapse was amazing. Thanks for all your work!
Fantastic video! Thanks for taking the time to research Octolapse and help us get set up. Your effort is really appreciated!
That's got to be the most in depth octolapse video I've seen. Great work and excellent detail. Now to try it out myself. Again lol
This channel has been incredibly helpful as I start my 3d printing journey!
Thanks Michael:) Well, it did not work for me at 1st with my Cura 4.0 but now it is working. 2 things to keep in mind guys.
1. You have to have a G90 in the START G-Code settings in Cura. For you noobs you open Cura, click on your printer, click on Manage Printers, click on your printer again, then click Machine Settings. From there add G90 to Start G-Code.
2. Make sure you are not using any old G-Code until you re-save it. I think a lot of people are forgetting to re-slice the files with new settings. I know I did;)
I don't have G90 in my start code, I changed the drop down box to "Default to Relative" and it works fine.
Thanks for all your work! This will be my holiday project. Merry Christmas!
Michael, another excellent video, I have been waiting for this one. Thanks.
Fantastic video. Thank you very much and Merry Christmas from 🇧🇪 !
Awesome tutorial! 🏆
I followed the steps in this "old" video and despite some options changed the basics remain the same. I have a Logitech C920 Pro and it worked flawlessly. The only thing I had to actually adjust was the direction where to park the print head while the snapshots are taken. Easy!! It worked on the first try! 👍 Thank you so much!
I was trying to do the same but from the video to now in Octolapse - I'm having a hard time finding some of what he is referencing too
Thanks for this! You answered all the questions I had with this tutorial.
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to do this. Really helped me with new Ender 3 V2 setup :)
As with every video you make, very worth waiting for Michael. Will be giving this a try as soon as I get time. I have a 1080p Logitech webcam, never use it as a webcam so it's about time I got some use out of it. Obviously I'l be watching this when I try it out (I'm sure to mess it up otherwise) and will probably do it with the CR-10 (not sure yet) BTW all it's upgrades are working perfectly so far.
Great stuff as usual Michael. Will be a post Xmas job for me.
OMG Thank You so much I couldn’t figure out why I was getting errors on Octolapse saying my GCode was missing something!
Very well documented tutorial. Thanks a lot!
hi michael. thank you so much for the octoprint set up tutorial.
Thank you, Merry Christmas.
Good stuff Michael. I'll definitely give it a try.
Excellent been waiting for this guide, no I am out of excuses to "get 'er done"...
Great guide. Keep up the good work!
Awesome tutorial.....very easy to follow !
Thanks Michael, great detail as always. Cheers, JAYTEE
Amazing guide, thank you for that!
I follow your guide and works perfect. Thanks.
FINALLY my c922 is working!! Thanks a lot!
Thank you for your hard work!! Love your videos keep it up!
Fantastic video, (like all of yours)
I recomend to change the script settings on Cura to:
Search: (;LAYER:)(.{1,})
Replace: \1\2
G4 P1 ;OctolapSync
(Watch out for the brackets!)
This will help to keep the gcode readable.
Works for me! Just want to add, you should move your plate to snapshot position then position your camera.
Excellent and clear, thank you so much
Thanks mate. A great explanation.
Nice, thanks for sharing
Happy Holidays :-)
Thanks for this, It solved my problems!
In the section starting at 11:00 it is important to note that the IP address of the mpeg streamer interface can be confusing.
If you are working on a browser screen directly attached to the octoprint raspberry pi then the mpeg interface is indeed at 127.0.0.1:8080.
However if, as is more likely, your browser in on a remote computer then you need to use the actual physical IP address of the octoprint (wifi or ethernet). octoprint.local:8080 should work.
Great tutorial BTW, thanks
Duuuuuuuuuude!!!!! My frieking hero. I've been looking for how to connect to my webcam ALL day. I'm so glad I happened to scroll through these settings.
You're a legend
Hi @Teaching Tech.
I've been trying to use my Logitech C310 with the Octopi and Octolapse unsuccessfully. I'm not able to access the cam through IP from Octopi. I've already changed the Octopi file but still not working.
Hi there,
As always a very helpful video. In step 8, if you use the 'Search and Replace' script and have the Dashboard and DisplayLayerProgress plugins installed in OctoPrint you may lose some nice functionality. So if you are using the latest Cura version, for step 8 I recommend to use a different script:
Insert at Layer Change
Before
G1 P4
My two cents
thank you for this video, it isn't "accurate" anymore but it is
The information has been moved around in octolapse but the guide still works well.
I am now dealing with stringing, but I think I missed a step or two, going back to rewatch
Could you help with retraction settings? I've spent all day tweaking mine but nothing really seems to he changing. I'm using Cura with my CR10S. Currently sitting at 25 mm/s retraction speed and 6 mm retraction.
your software is outstanding!! I'm just wondering, is there a command line option to force rendering with snapshots available if for some reason the render did not occur ?
Thanks for your video was very helpful for me. Do you have a plan why the new HQ Cam with Octopi doesn't work? I've been trying to persuade this camera to work under Octopi for days. Unfortunately without success.
What do you think could be the best configuration for octolapse with logitech camera C930e?
Need some help. When I try to run a test print, I keep getting a message saying something about an XYZ error and I need a G90/G91 gcode command in my start script. Nothing was mentioned of this in the video. How do I provide the needed gcode? I use Cura 4.3 as my slicer. Also, exactly how are you supposed to start your print when running in test mode? Can I load something normally through OctoPrint? If I do that, will it not start the heaters and extrude? Or do I have to run the print in DryRun mode?
When I click on the control tab, I can see the image through my Logitech C920. But I don't see a thing when I click on the OctoLapse tab. If I put 8080 behind the adress I get an image as well. When I test the webcam it tells me that the camera seems to be working.
Michael, I'm sorry to bother you on an old post but I get "YZ movement was detected, but the axis mode has not been set. Please add a G90 or G91 to the top of your start gcode.". When you have a moment would you mind telling me what mistake I made and if I need to add a command to my start up, where I should place it in the Sart G-code. Thank you.
Very good tutorial! I got my Octolapse setup all up and running. Thanks a lot!
I only ran into a problem when I added a "Pause at height" script in Cura to change filament at a certain layer: It seems that this script searches for the ;LAYER:# line that your "Search and Replace" script replaces with the G-code to trigger the snapshots. Therefore, the pause G-code never gets inserted. I can just put the pause script before yours and everything works fine. But to make your script more reliable and maybe keep someone from running into the same problem as me I would suggest to tweak your script to use
(;LAYER:)(.{1,})
\1\2
G4 P1
This way the LAYER line doesn't get replaced and can still be used as a trigger for other scripts (like the MultiColors plugin for Octoprint).
Thanks again for all your hard work and content!
EDIT: If you want the snapshot to be triggered before any other G-code that gets inserted by a post-process script that also looks for the LAYER line, you can use:
(;LAYER:)(.{1,})
G4 P1
\1\2
This simply inserts the snapshot trigger before the LAYER line
and not a moment too soon. Just finished building my printer this evening and ready to install the my raspberry pi this weekend... woot.
@Teaching tech - I think one of the reasons that WildRose Builds templates look so good is that he seems to be using endstop switch to trigger the capture. On Ender 3 recordings there are 2 visible white cables hanging from right side of the X-gantry. And since he moves the nozzle all the way to the end of X, it'd make sense and guarantee that the pictures are taken always in the very same moment
Great video!!!
I'll test it on the Easythreed 3ed Nano printer I'm expecting to get.
Can u share the Cure profile of this printer?
Thanks
Emla
thx for the tips they realy help
Great video! I've been experimenting with Octolapse, too, and I cannot find a good setting for Vase Mode. Because the vase is only one wall thick, the nozzle leaves a blemish at every layer change. Is there a way to get Octolapse to take the picture without stopping the nozzle? How would you do vase mode?
Have you tried the "animated printing" under stabilization?
Is there any way to attach a phone to the raspberry pi as a camera? so tempted to switch to the octolapse with the time lapse 3d print videos I've had on my channel
How would one set up the camera for an Ender 5 bed? Would octolapses be possible on ender 5?
Is G4 P1 command neccessary with new updated Cura and Octolapse as of the date of this question? Cause now they have default configurations
I really need help with the blobs and access filament when the hotend moves outta the camera range my prints look like crap
Doesn't the adding g4 p1 effect the display layer progress plug-in cause it looks for (;LAYER:).{1,}?
any idea why my raspberry pi camera doesn't show in octolapse? all I see is the still "welcome to octolapse" test image
the webcam works fine in octoprint and I can also open 8080 and see the stream
Awesome video and thank you for doing all of the hard work for us. I followed your directions with all settings, etc. and things worked very well. I do have a question, since I use Cura and many of the settings that I made "non-unique" are supposed to be calculated, and I'm getting messages that they are now set to absolute values. What inputs do you have on that?
Sorry but I rarely use Cura. You only need to worry about the non unique settings if you are using the advanced mode at the end of the video.
Cura 4.x now has a "insert at layer change" post processing script which lets you just enter the G4 P1 code very simply.
My streaming is extremely laggy. I get about 17 seconds of lag between movement IRL and display in Octoprint. Any advice on how to remedy this in the config files? I'm running Octoprint off of wifi and I know one way to solve the lag issue is to use ethernet instead.
Very nice guide even after 2 years. I was able to setup Cura 4.8 with the "Search and Replace" G-code post processing:
For Search field ";LAYER:"
Replace with "@OCTOLAPSE TAKE-SNAPSHOT
;LAYER:"
use recular expression "ON"
This way the "@OCTOLAPSE TAKE-SNAPSHOT" g-code trigger is send to the Octolaps and the Display Layer Progress and Dashboard plugins are also working (as they are dependent on the layer change info)
Hopefully for others this might help as well
Hello! Great video, what output format (codec) is the best ?
I installed Octolapse and its working ok but i am unable te enable custom image preferences with a raspicam V 2.1. The image quality is really bad (brigtness, focus, etc) I changed on boot/octopi.txt, tryed FormerLurker procedure, still not working. Do you have any suggestion?
I bought an ender 3v2 couple of weeks ago now when I'm powering my printer I'm hearing the entry sound from this videos
I only get mintemp error when I have octolapse installed. When I uninstall it, then I no longer get mintemp errors. Any thoughts on this? On both of my ender 3s
and you just got your self a new sub.
can we do that with SKR 1.4 and raspberry 3b with reprap installed ? would be great if you show how
I'm hoping I can get a reply here. I've followed the guide and got everything going and octolapse will pause and take snap shots on layer changes, but it refuses to do any of the stabilization modes. I tried the static and animated options and all it will do is pause on the layer it's on, leaving a glob, and taking an ugly snap shot with the extruder in the way.
thank you so much!
Any chance that you have Octolapse on your list of 'to do' videos for Ender 5 ?
I have instaled on my raspberry pi 3b+ octopi , that is conected to a mks gen l v1.0 motherboard for my 3d printer(ender 3 pro), soo wen i open my octoprint into a browser i can use octoprint . I wanted to install some pluggins ,but first time i had an error that said my server was offline , after conect my raspberry to wifi and set a static ip adress , i conect my raspberry to my main board , after that is said the status of octoprint was operational , soo i expected it will work ....
After that it said that my instalation doesn't have internet , soo i coldn't install pluggins . I see that in the "conectivity check" my host was 8.8.8.8 and my port 53, i press on test , there said "server is unreachable ".
What do i supose to do ?
what if your webcam is still "focusing" and causing blurred images? Is there a g code for a slightly longer pause?
This video is older - Any idea on the setting now in the latest version of Octolapse - and I have a Adrucam and there is a plugin for AutoFocus but its seems to almost always fail using i2c most of the time.
Always great videos! How about for a future video, Octoprint "Firmware Updater" tutorial?
am I missing something? can cura profiles be converted into settings.json for import into octolapse in some obvious way that I'm clueless about?? because, damn, I sure can't find a single shared "settings.json" ANYWHERE for sidewinder x1. does someone have this??
Tenho pouco tempo na impressão 3D, uso o Octo Print Juntamente com uma Palette2 Pro.
Vendo seu tutorial fiquei impressionado e tentei instalar, correu tudo bem na instalação somente me deparei com um erro, caso possa me auxiliar para corrigi-lo segue a mensagem.
obrigado
''Octolapse - Position Error
Position - Coordinates (X:168.00000,Y:-16.00000,Z:5.00000,E:58.00000) are out of the printer area! Cannot resume position tracking until the axis is homed, or until absolute coordinates are received.''
Thanks for the great video. Helped me out a ton. Why don't you mount the camera off something other than the printer to reduce that wobbling and help with the snapshot delay problem?
good q
Hey, nice video! Thanks a lot for sharing it with all of us!
Did you see the option in the snapshot gcode in the printer profile to suppress even if Octolapse is disabled? That means the default 'snap' pseudogcode doesn't get sent even if Octolapse is disabled either via the toggle on the Octolapse tab, or within the Main Settings. However, if you disable it in the plugin manager this option obviously won't work. Your solution (dwell) is pretty clever :)
You assume we know how to locate things in the plugin repository. I realize it is "old hat" to you, but not newbes. It took me over a half hour to figure it out...The hardest part!!!
I like to leave the layer number in my gcode if I'm going to insert an M600 or anything like that, so instead of
"G4 P1"
as the replacement text, I change the search to:
"(;LAYER:.{1,})"
and the replacement text to:
"\1
G4 P1"
Moving the parenthesis around the entire match allows me to call it back with the \1 - then followed by a
to inset a newline, which puts the G4 P1 on the next line.
sir i want to ask one thing what if i use marlin firmware for my 3d printer, is it possible to use for rapsberry pi?
when i duplicate my tab it doesn't show up as ip address it just has octoprint name and some other letter,but not like yours did
Big fan of you Thanks a lot. But what if we do not use the raspberry pi camera? Well at least did not get that part. Regardless of what cam we use we still need to edit that part?
Very Helpful video but I am stuck at step 12 - can someone explain this to me? what URL should I be accessing with port 8080?
I have the orange pi 5 . Do you have a tutorial for the orange pi 3 and 5 for the install for octoprint?
I love your videos! You should invest in a lil microphone
Hi Michael, Thanks for the video. I did all your steps and it worked perfect the first time. In the Octoprint, I have this error at the end even though my timelapse is available and Good. I am using Ideamaker. Any idea what could be wrong.
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Octolapse - Before/After Render Script Error
Rendering completed and was successful, but there were some script errors: The after script failed with the following error: after_render_script_error: The after-render script failed with the following error message: The process does not exist.
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Thanks and keep up the good work.
May I ask how to install the octolapse, please? I went to the plugin manager and try to install the octolapse but an error pops up saying "Error!
Could not install plugin, unknown error, please consult octoprint.log for details". I don't know what to do. Should I install the ffmpeg firstly? ( I read a blog and it tell us to install the ffmpeg firstly) If I need to install the ffmpeg, then shall I install the ffmpeg on raspberry pi or on my PC? as a beginner I asked lots of questions above. 😂
My webcam stream is visible in Control and the Octolapse Webcam Setup tests check out. When, however, I try to edit Custom Image Preferences, I get the following error:
Unable To Enable Custom Preferencesunknown-server-type:
An unknown webcam server type 'Werkzeug/0.15.6 Python/2.7.13' is being
used for the 'piCam' camera profile. Currently only MJPEGStreamer is
supported. Unable to apply custom image preferences.
I'm suspicious this may be Octoprint Anywhere's doing, but I've no proof. If I disable OA, I no longer see anything from the webcam. How can I specify my webcam server type so that I can get the best Octolapses?
How do I know where the bed will be for the prints so I can set the camera?
Question: If you have multiple processes, let's say you even have 2-4 objects, what happens with that "G4 P1" script you add to the layer height change in S3D? Will it take more shots because it will be pausing for those other objects with that command in their script? How will it affect the overall time lapse?
because the 4 objects are being printed at the same time, they layer change should happen for each at the same time as well. i.e same number of images for 2-4 as you would get for 1 i believe.
I keep getting the below error. I can't work it out. Can anyone help please?
Octolapse - Position Error
Posistion - Coordinates
(X:230.00000, Y:230.00000, Z:12.39000, E:53.75842) are out of the printer area!
Cannot resume position tracking until the axis is homed, or until absolute coordinates are received.
every tutorial of yours i follow i find like 2 years too late and unfortunately that usually means the software in question has been updated to death... meaning the menus hardly resemble what they do in your videos.
i spend most of my time going "okay where is that setting *now*
lol anyways thanks! one of these days I'm going to catch a tutorial early. here ill subscribe that should help !
Same here. This is one that should should really be updated as a lot has changed in the settings of OctoLapse. What say you @Teaching Tech
TRU DAT! I'm like ok "tick" snapshot time. easy money! ummm...?? i put G4 P1 where? there's hardly ever a tutorial on here that you need when you need it.
Until a new guide is made on this channel, you could check out the Octolapse Wiki, or the tutorials on my channel, like this getting started guide: th-cam.com/video/vP6KQ1hBK1g/w-d-xo.html
My guides aren't quite as cool as Teaching Tech's guides, but I guess they will do for now :)
@@FormerLurker Thank you this worked for me....
I used my brother's gaming laptop to set up octoprint Raspberry Pi Imager and now I don't have his computer think I'd be able to use my Chromebook to go back in and change these settings?
So for step #12 i cannot get the website to show the mjpg streamer, I get 400 bad request the browser(or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand. I also do not get the camera settings under "edit camera" when i check the box that says enable and apply preferences a box pops up top right that says unable to enable custom preferences unknown-server-type: An unknown webcam server type 'Werkzeug/0.16.1 Python/2/7/16' is being used for the default webcam camera profile. Currently only mjpeg streamer is supported.... I have tried 2 webcams. Logitech c922 PRO and Logitech 4k PRO... Does anyone have any ideas?
Octolapse still has a lot of work. I think the idea is great just to much work to get it right compared to the Timelapse plugin included with octoprint. Hope to see something with version 1.
When I go to change the settings of my camera and such, after I click apply it distorts my camera entirely and I have to unplug and plug it back in to make it normal again. So I cant change anything or even turn off auto-focus. Any ideas as to why this is? I've been using the Logitech Pro 9000 and I haven't had any sort of issues like this before.
Also, when I go to test things with test mode, I get a Position Error message saying "XYZ movement was detected, but the axis mode has not been set. Please add a G90 or G91 to the top of your start gcode." I've been googling for the past couple hours trying to fix this but I'm still new when it comes to printing. How can I fix this?
Hiii i am getting error- no more candidates to test and no working port/baudrate combination detected. How to solve this???