The best Octoprint Plugins to enhance your 3D printing experience
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- I'm a big Octoprint fan, and that's in part due to the numerous plugins that can be added to add convenience and functionality. These are my favourites, hopefully there is something of interest for most people. Please comment below if I've missed any winners.
The plugins featured in this video in alphabetical order (with further info where needed):
1. Autoscroll
2. Bed Visualiser:
Standard gcode for settings:
G28
G29 T
Prusa MK3 gcode for settings:
G28 W ; home all without mesh bed level
G80
@BEDLEVELVISUALIZER
G81
3. BLtouch
4. Cancel objects:
Instruction page: github.com/paukstelis/OctoPri...
5. Emergency stop button
6. Extra distance buttons
7. Fan speed control
8. Floating Navbar
9. Gcode editor
10. Heater timeout
11. Navbar temp
12. Octolapse
13. Tab Order
14. Themify:
To achieve the wider, more fitting /ui, add these lines to the advanced settings:
Selector = '.span8'; CSS-Rule = 'width'; value = '70%'
Selector = '.container'; CSS-Rule = 'width'; value = '100%'
Selector = '.span4'; CSS-Rule = 'width'; value = '25%'
Selector = '.row'; CSS-Rule = 'margin-left'; value = '0'
15. Webcam
Apologies for the sub par audio in the screen cast sections.
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Thanks for all the work! I just added all of the plugins and am very happy! I really like your channel and appreciate the all of the work you do.
Filament manager - It lets your Octoprint keep track on all your filament rolls, as well as color, brand, how much should be left and pauses your printer as it is getting close to one roll being empty. All you have to do is tell it what filament you will be using for your next print.
Alexander Falk this is what I need. Thanks!
Hey. I just wanted to thank you. I am new to 3d Printers. I bought an ender 3 and thanks to your videos, my first print was 99.9% perfect. I also used all your suggested printed upgrades AND most of you purchased upgrades (Aluminum extruder, bltouch, springs, glass bed, replacement Bowden tube, silent mainboard and octopi with 3.5" touch screen). I watched many many other videos during this experience, but yours proved to be the only reliable and easy to follow videos. I seriously would have smashed this things to bits without your help. Now I am in love (with my printer) and wanting to try more. (Maybe build a printer or cnc from scratch). Thank you for your help and inspiration. I feel like I should say more, but instead I'll just say Cheers Mate!
I'm liking the filament manager that tracks filament usage. It can even warn if you don't have enough for teh loaded job.
thanks Mike - the Themify advanced settings make Octopi look as modern as it deserves to be. Many thanks man!
Thank you so much for your Themeify settings! I tried to play with css myself after you told me the name of plugin which makes Octoprint's width 100% but I couldn't make it myself. Your settings mentioned in this video worked like a charm :)
You're welcome.
Another great video Michael! Somehow I never heard about the gcode editor plugin, and it's something I really needed. Many thanks!
Hi there, what's your preferred method of contact so I can touch base before shooting my next octolapse video?
@@TeachingTech no problem! Mail me at formerlurker@pm.me
I might remove this email address at some point to reduce spam. Let me know when you have it, thanks!
Nice thank you! love the themeify, gcode viewer, fan speed control... and the bed vizualizer :)
I noticed that I had to uninstall/re-install Themeify in order to get Octoprint/Tab-Order to notice a revised tab ordering. I suspect that Tab-Order isn't the only plugin to be impacted by Themeify. Be nice to know the fix.
This is a solid professional video, that clearly took a lot of effort to get to be so clean, and clear. The pace is (mercifully) fast, so it's great to be able to review the suggestions at speed, and revisit pause/re-run the video to get the details during install. Great job Michael! Sets a standard for us all.
The cost estimation plug in is a great addition. You enter in a few parameters:
Your power consumption in kW (mine is 0.2) for the printer
Cost per kWh (mine is $0.13)
Purchase price of the printer
Estimated lifespan hours
Maintenance costs per hour
It ties in with Filament Manager plug in so it knows how much filament costs.
After some time after loading a g-code file, it tells you how much it costs you to print the loaded model.
Super!! Almost all plugins i use, but few i didnt know. Thanks
Thank you for pasting the themify advanced settings, your awesome!
Hot damn, I was looking for a dark theme and you show me Themeify, hell yes!
Outstanding video as usual Michael. I have been following and using your suggested setup for a while, but managed to corrupt my image this morning, so am going through reloading them all and will make a backup of the image before use. Keep up the good work.
I keep a backup with win32 disk imager too. That means every new install I do is painless, as plugins and wifi setup are already in place.
Teaching Tech And I now have one as well. With all the plugins that work for me. Thanks again, your channel has helped me a lot. Always great to watch Aussie content.
Always liked your videos, I have beaten into submission by my team mates at Frankentrain Labs to get OctoPrint, so here i come. Order Pi 4B 8MB, looking forward to more plug in videos. Thanks for all you efforts. Dennis
Great video(s)! I can’t express my gratitude enough. I’ve learned so much in so little time. I’m still a noob but printing like a pro.
Almost the same ones I have but the one @Kyle Randall mention its a lot better than cancel object I already had, thanks for the video teaching tech.
7:20 need that octolapse guide, especially that camera comparison
thanks for this now I have a bunch of new amazing plug-ins
I prefer "Exclude Region" for the functionality you're using "Cancel Object" for. It lets you draw a circle or rectangle on the GCode Viewer page, and stop performing any actions in that region. It doesn't require any object tagging in your slicer, which makes it more universal.
Agreed. Exclude Region requires no additional effort in the slicer. So it's always ready for those printer "oops".
Went from not needing it in weeks to twice over the same weekend. Probably my 2nd favorite plug-in next to Octolapse.
Thanks guys I will check it out.
I prefer CancelObject (but that's not surprising since I wrote it). They are really complementary plugins. Exclude regions simply won't work when you have objects that have overlapping bounding boxes. CancelObject does require some specific comment tags which not all slicers have. Fortunately, the more common slicers (Slic3r, Cura) now have that functionality and it will be included in future releases. The other thing that is nice about object tags is that it will allow plugins to do more than just cancel objects. You'll be able to very easily make on-the-fly changes to particular objects (think: temperature, flow rate, speed, etc.).
Those are good points, Paul, and it's absolutely worth noting that there's no downside to having both plugins installed, so you have them both available to use whichever is a better fit for the situation (especially since you can't install a plugin during a print, so if you have an issue with a print, you want all the tools you can have in order to recover and complete it). Also, thanks for writing such a useful plugin!
@@ppaukstelis Unfortunately the Prusa Slic3r edition is not supported.
Still playing with all these awesome plugins, thank you so much Michael.
One word of warning. When installing the Bed Visualizer, it can take up to 30 mins to install, so be patient. This caught me out, I thought my RPi had a hissy fit :-)
Nav temp too aaaahhhhhhh!
Spike and I, but reading comments as I wait, glad I found yours, thank you
Yup...I was about to manually restart my Octoprint because of this, but I just gave it more time and it finally finished. It takes a while, for sure!
If i didn't see it keep saying "still running....." and this comment, I would have been questioning it too!
What a great review of great features and plug ins of Octoprint.
Thanks for watching :)
Great video, I'll definitely be installing a few of these
Thanks for the recommendations, love most!
Thank you so much!! Great job! Absolutely I love it so much I've added all of suggested plugins:) If you get a new interesting functionality please share it. You did it perfectly.
The bed leveling trick sounds interesting I'm going to try that.
It's a nice way to get it as optimal as possible.
Thanks for this. Getting my Raspberry Pi ready for Christmas morning :)
Great video! I'd suggest adding a margin-left to .navbar-inner of 1%. It will avoid the octoprint logo being too close to the left edge.
I just tried it and it shifts the colored part of the navbar as well, it leaves an ugly white space on the left :(
I know this video has been out for a while and about octoprint but I just had to comment on the tevo tornado. I bought one of these on amazon around 2018 and even though i have an UM3, i find myself using the Tornado most of the time. It's turned out to be a great printer. all I've done to it is add stepper smoothers and it prints great and fast
I had my Pi 4 4GB sitting here waiting for RetroPie to be updated for it but figured what the heck and downloaded and flashed the SD image. Running Octoprint with my Ender 3 Pro and OMG this is the best not having to run back and forth popping the SD card in and out all the time. Great having a percentage completed and estimated timeframe to finish.
Great vid as always. Well done
Cheers for this, great info for us beginners!
OK. Im trying Octoprint again. hehehe! thank you.
I love the Slack plugin, it's only really useful if you use Slack, but the ability to check the status of a print and get a webcam snapshot when I'm out is really useful.
Very informative efforts.
Thanks
Also, the webcam plugin you mention is actually called "Webcam Tab" in the repo.
That helped me find it. FYI, it's one word, "WebcamTab".
Awesome. Thanks. I was looking for that.
thanks!
Also like the EEPROM Marlin Plugin
Well done, as usual!
Really love your videos!
Thanks Oliver :)
PrintTimeGenius Plugin is, in my opinion, the best plugin. It makes the time estimation spot on for every print. It learns how fast your printer is at certain moves and will correct the horrible time estimations that are built in.
I had a bit of trouble with that plugin in a previous version. It caused jitter when printing small circles. Haven't tried it again since a few months back.
A lot of people have suggested it so I will try it out.
@@TeachingTech I had a problem with it breaking another plugin so I turned it off told the developer and got no response so I don't use it. Found out if the acc. and jerk settings are set right in the slicer then the times are correct anyway.
Octoprint Anywhere is an awesome one to give you access to control your printer while you're away.
Just tried it yesterday, seems to work well.would be expensive for me with so many instances at once.
I also like the "Print History" plugin, which gives you basically the same stats you get if you expand the individual gcode file entries in the Files box on the right, but in a format that's easy to export. I may just be a data nerd, though.
Kyle Randall
I like Print History too as I’ve been tracking tracking the accuracy of the estimated timings that I get from my slicer compared to the actual print times.
Thanks, i will try it.
Thanks for tips
thanks for sharing
One more thing - A nicer plugin than "Themify" is called "consolidated tabs" Which does the same thing without the need to configure it. Plus add a few extra options just via checkbox. I believe Themify is probably more configurable at the end of the day, but for most, Consolidated Tabs would probably work very well... I know I like it better. :)
Wow that's a great selection.
Themeify is misspelled.
Awesome! My Octoprint servers are now easier to use an navigate! Great video mate.
Thanks for watching :)
Thank you for the suggestions! I'm still budgeting my upgrades for flashing firmware and building a raspberry pi rig to go with my Ender 3. Have you ever tried Klipper firmware / plugin combo? I've seen a couple of videos talking about the performance enhancements but none of the bigger channels seem to have touched them or put up guides so I'm curious for your thoughts.
Yet to try it but definitely will be doing so and making a guide/review.
Good to hear! I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for all your hard work.
Cant wait the Octolapse tutorials mate!
I know I'm taking forever but the problem is I'm designing a flexible webacm mount for my tested and suggested webcam, and this is taking time to get right.
I’ll be interested to see your cam rez and octolapse settings, I’ve been playing with my C920r and the quality is pretty poor, but keep up the good work mate.
Cant wait for that too
Sorry for the double question....Didn’t seem to post the first time.
Thank you, Thank you!!
Hi Michael, I've finally installed my Raspberry and have been using Octoprint for the past week and loving it. At present I'm just accessing Octoprint within my home via my web browser either on PC, iPad or iPhone. I know it's not safe to do so and understand that you should never leave a printer running autonomously. However, I've seen you-tube videos explaining PiVPN and or ISO Apps that would come in hand for if ever I need to pop out for a while during a print. Do you use such items and if so can you please explain how you access Octoprint when your not at home, maybe do a tutorial video.
Great ideas and have installed quite a few of them. One i would like to know more about is how you get the different tabs as i wish to put a tab on for preheat plug in, is it possible??
I think there's only a couple you missed as potentially really useful plug-ins (dependant on your wants/needs). The two that I found really useful in combination with one another was the 'Astro Print' plugin and 'Get Anywhere' plugin. By using both of these it enables you to print from anywhere (using Astro Print) and monitor it live from anywhere (using get anywhere) without the need for port forwarding which I found to be really useful on my printer which is now set up and super reliable.
I'd suggest you set up your router as a VPN server and access your printer and other local-network-only devices this way. way more secure and easy to use after setting up
I don't have the networking knowledge to make a guide for this. I would get roasted for doing something wrong so I'll stay away.
Hi Michael. Great video as always!!! Can you please tell me how to get the long file names in the SD card section? I can't find a way to do it. I thought upgrading the firmware would do it but no. Much appreciate it and keep up the good work!!
I also suggest 'history'. Which is pretty obvious. It just records a history of all your prints. Times and dates and print length.
How do you know which item is which when you use Cancel Item? Great video btw!
Hi man I love your videos. One question is it safe to use octoprint as it says not secure in the top left I have a raspberry pi and octoprint but im wary about connecting
Thanks
I really like what you're doing! I saw in that video that you're running multiple OctoPrint servers. Did you ever try to run them in multiple instances on the same Raspberry? I'm shortly before my second printer and have to decide if I will run a second instance or a second RPi
Great video, in trying to setup Themify, to make the inner region (where the temp graph is) stretch out, what would be the selector and values for that? Temp graph and other tab contents are currently being limited to their previous widths. BTW using the Tempsgraph Plugin so that might be the difference.
I suspect you might also be using the TempsGraph plugin. That appears to cause this problem with Themeify.
Michael have you ever thought about making a Klipper firmware video for lets say the Ender-3 or some other printer. You already got the pi and two Ender-3 so you can do a side by side marlin vs klipper test for sound, speed and quality.
The Klipper firmware is supposed to be more quite and fast due to more precise stepper motor signals and the fact that the heavy lifting is done at he pi rather than the amega micro controller.
I'll definitely be making a video on this. I only have one Ender 3 but I will still include direct comparisons.
@@TeachingTech
Great news! Looking forward to it.
Just thought you had two because you did the Ender-3 Pro review, but heard you gave it away to some happy kids, kudos for that!. And when I think about it its not a fair comparison if one of the firmware got the pro model or even on two identical printer because all printers in this price range are unique anyway.
Greetings.
Initially, congratulations for your videos with a lot of information.
I have just started using the Octoprint with Raspiberry Pi 3B on my 3D printer and I have a question about whether it is possible to install and view images with two USB cameras.
If it possible could you help me with tips and or some tutorial?
Thank you.
There is a multi cam plugin if you search in the plugin manager. Haven't personally used it but there would be documentation.
Okay, are you planning to make a video of this theme? I find it very interesting to have multiple cameras on a printer for various purposes. Thank you.
Using Themify, is there a list of more selector lines that can be changed? I would like to my font size as it seems small when viewing in a 4k monitor. Great video!
It you are handy wit the web editor in Chrome, it will allow you to find element IDs to then alter in Themify. A simpler solution might be to just zoom the entire page with Control + on the keyboard.
Hi. Some people recommend to upgrade the board to the mksgen 1.4.
With octoprint (and raspberry pi), the original board, TL smoothers, and a couple of other mods, do you think that upgrading to a mksgen 1.4 is unnecessary?
Thanks
How did you get the temps to display in the navbar? All I have is OCTOLAPSE added after installing the list in the video. I don't have a printer connected to the Pi yet if that makes a diff.
You actually DON'T need a BLTouch or other bed probe to use the Bed Visualizer.
You can use the PROBE_MANUALLY option with automatic bed leveling enabled in Marlin (I know it seems weird).
You should do a quick video on how to do it. It's free and it fixed my print adhesion as I have the notorious warped Ender 3 bed. (I use a 7x7 grid)
It's actually on my list for the near future. i figure most new users are going to struggle on the first layer so it is worth a video.
This would also be super helpful for CNC machines.
Great video, thank you! Can you tell us how you get the full file names listed in the sd card list? I am only getting unidentifiable 8 characters and cannot find a solution online. Thanks!
I know this comment is old. But for anyone still wondering. My guess is you have an SD card inserted into the printer while running octoprint. Dont do that. Try out Polar Cloud Plugin. You can add files to printer later without even having your raspberry pi or printer on.
Will bed visualizer work with manual mesh leveling?
Cool plugins. One question for other user of cancel object. Is it normal that extruder always goes to that cancelled object on all layers? It works for me just fine, but I find it bit annoying that it always makes that extra move that takes just a little bit of time per layer.
Would Klipper be considered more of a driver (for 8-bit controller boards) rather than a Plug-In?
Think I have to install some new plugings now. I think you should check out OctoPrint-PrintTimeGenius, it gives you a very accurate printing time usually only of by a few seconds.
Thanks, i will definitely try it.
Cancel object is fantastic. Does it work from the gcode or do you have to use octoprint's slicer?
You should also try out Telegram plugin to see progress on the print when away, btw you misspelled Themeify in the description.
another option is Discord Remote or OctoSlack for discord users :)
Thank you for your Themeify settings ! But how did you get your temperature graphic to span the whole available space ?
I was wondering the same
I'm having the same problem.
I think I found the problem. If you're using the TempsGraph plugin that appears to cause this issue with Themeify.
Could you make a video on how to connect Ender 3 to pc to use simplify 3D. My simplify 3D reads the com port when I plug in usb cable but doesn’t connect to printer. My other printer works fine but uses a different type of usb cable. Your other videos don’t give me information on what to do as far as connecting for the first time. I’m trying to calibrate my extruder but can’t get current e-steps or send commands due to no connection. Thanks
Can you help me, the settings to configure Logitech C930E to be able to do octolapse with good image quality and resolution?
Telegram plugin is super. Thx for your video I found some useful plugins I didn’t know
I will look it up.
What if you want to use Octoprint for a cnc plasma table?
I use multicolors it inserts a pause where you want to change the filament
I will look into that one, thanks.
@Teaching Tech: Will you do a new version of this anytime soon...?
With the themify plugin, are you running the 4 machines from the same Raspberry Pi?
There are ways to run multiple instances of OctoPrint on a single Pi, but I also want to know his specific setup!
is there a plug in to easily stop and unload the filament at a certain level so I can load up a new filament color?
multicolors ?saw it mentioned earlier.
can octoprint connect to arduino ide ?
or can i add stepper motor or extended hardware with octoprint ? please help me
thanks broo you really do a good job
Which Bed Level Visualizer settings do I use for the Ender 3?
G28
G29
for Themeify, how do you identify elements on your page to know what to call them to make adjustments?
In chrome, right click and select inspect element. A side panel will open with more info.
Are you somehow looking at my google search history? Your videos have been suspiciously similar to stuff I've been looking for lately.
I promise I'm not. Great minds must think alike.
Hallo there. I have a question about the Terminal informations when I type in M122 in terminal. Now i have a problem with one part of it. in the line where the OTP is written the status of it is TRUE (on the extruder) and the other stuff is on false. Has this something to do with overheating the extruder? Because above the OTP is a line that is described for the over temperature prewarn. Can ssombody explain me what this OTP stands for? Thank you in advance
Full screen webcam!
Hello. Which printer is that one you show on the bed leveling part of the plugins? Thanks in advance
Tevo Tornado '2018 edition'.
installed the webcam plugin but it's on a hidden tab. Do I need to at Themeify to give it a visual tab?
When is your manual going to be finished? Great video!👍😎
Very close now. Haven't camera picked, my mount released and a fair bit of testing done with the new octolapse update.
Is there a plugin that will show HotEnd / Bed temps in the floating Navbar? I've tried the NavBar Temp plugin, but that seems to show me the temp of the SOC.. The Ras-pi's CPU I'm guessing.. Thanks
Which would you say is more important: BL Touch or runout sensor? Since the Ender3 can't run both (that I know of).
Check out my runout sensor video. I am running both. And for the record I would pick bltouch if I had to.
@@TeachingTech Thanks, I should have amended the question after I found you other vid. I went w/ the BL. There's a way to do it via OctoPrint plugin as well that I think I might use so I don't have to do close-quarters soldering to the Ender board.
How to setup the webcam to 1080p resolution ?
Too much to explain here but it's in the wiki. I will cover in a future video.
Great video as always. The problem that I'm having is that my simplifier 3D slicer says print time : 6 hrs 28 mins but my Octoprint says 16 hrs 45 mins to print. Is there anyway to fix this issue? Thank You for help
try this one: plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/PrintTimeGenius/
Which Emergency Stop Button plugin are you recommending?
Also, Which plugin is for Extra Distance Buttons as the search brings nothing up?
I tried Themeify. Its great tool, but i have a problem and everybody should have had the same one: When you do the width of .contauiner .span4 and .span8 the gcode viewer tab (preview) is not fine any more The sliders are beside the "image" . How did you fix that? I tried canvas_container with align for example. Can you share your settings for this ? thanks
same question here!
When you use Cancel Item how do you know which item to cancel? Do they assign numbers in a certain order?
I was unimaginative in naming the processes 1, 2 and 3. Ideally you would call them something that made sense in S3D and then that will be picked up by Octoprint.
@@TeachingTech If using Cura, if you add the following to the start of your ENDing G-Code: ;MESH:ENDGCODE The plugin will know to look for the file names and it will use them and you'll see them in the list of options to cancel. Working perfectly for me in Cura 4
I can't get Cancel Object plugin to work. What am I missing?