OctoPrint - Multiple Instance Setup - Raspberry Pi & Linux - Chris's Basement - 2023
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- Today we set up multiple printers on Raspberry Pi and on a Linux Server. Easy-peasy!
00:00 Introduction
01:35 Multi Raspberry Pi
11:24 Multi Linux Set up
19:47 Conclusion
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Great video, Chris. A couple points of clarification (also in the README): instances have a shared virtual environment, so any plugin you install, or any update you do in any instance will be active in the other instances once you restart the other instances. The configuration for the plugins is independent for each instance. The template is really useful if you have a bunch of custom parameters for a plugin and you want all instances to have those parameters. I will add OctoEverywhere to the cloud plugins with the next set of updates!
Thanks Paul!
Thanks for the vid and thanks paul for the script this is really helpful. Octoeverywhere is already added,great. One problem I have tho, when using api for cura it connects to octoprint, but when I press print from octoprint it asks for a path and then gives an error (that it can't connect). Any idea how to solve it?
@@studywithme8055 Interesting, I'm not sure how Cura does this. Maybe it''s not uploading the whole file and octoprint is getting confused.
@@ChrisRiley I have a similar issue, I believe it's the API in general, did a fresh install of Octopi 1.0.0 created three instances through your tutorial using the scrip. None of the API work, on any of the instances, Applications API, User API, none of them work. I've tried them on one of my Otocprint monitors, Printoid App, etc.
I'm not sure if the problem is on Octopi 1.0.0 or on the instances with this script.
When rolling back to my previous image with previous Optopi version and the manual process to create the instances from your older video (without the script) API connectivity works just fine.
Thanks for all the hard work!
"One last time" .. until next year. ;) .. And thank you for doing this, as I was just looking at doing this again.
Lol, thanks for watching
One last time?... yaaaaaaa right!!! you love playing with OctoPrint, admit it! 🤪🤪
Lol!
Big thank you for doing these videos 👍
Glad you like them!
Fair play! Awesome video, made it so much easier, than the last time I followed your video. Deserve a medal for this!
Glad it helped! Thanks
Thanks so much for this. I'd been trying to set up Octoprint for a single system but had been running into noob issues but now things are running!
Woo Hoo! Thanks for watching
CHRIS!!!! Awesome help! What a great idea!!!! I have 4 printers with 4 separate pi's! Sounds like a summer project!
That's a great idea!
Amazing job man! Thank You so much bro!
Thank you for watching!
Ďakujeme.
Thank you!
Thanks as always 👍
Thanks for watching!
So useful! I'm so glad I found this. It took less than an hour to set up by changing my already set up pi and I couldn't be happier with the results.
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for this guys. I had 3 printers running on 3 Pi's now they work perfectly well on just one PI. I use PSU Control plugin and that works perfectly for each individual printer I just had to change the GPIO pin for two of them as they all used the same pin previously. I had to do the same with the "Filament Sensor Reloaded" Plugin I use but it only took seconds to configure and each configuration works separately for each printer. I now have 2 spare PI 3B+ thanks to you both.
Yay! Thanks
Awesome vid
Thank you!
Pretty much learnt all my OctoPrint and OctoDash knowledge from your videos. Hope these guides continue when new updates come out.
That's the plan! Thanks for watching
Yes, great video
Thanks!
Great video as always. It really is a great script and it is what I used after wasting too much time manaully installing multiple instances on a minipc. After moving on to klipper one of the things I really enjoy about Mainsail is the ability to access all my printers in a single tab. It seems minor but it really makes managing multiple printers easier and it's something I feel Octoprint or a plugin should add in.
Thanks for sharing, I'm happy to help!
Greetings again Sir.. Just watched this video from the link you provided in your awesome reply to my cry for help lol... This looks fantastic and I'm not only going to run this as soon as my printers finish the current print jobs (long ones running now). But once they're both available I'll be running Paul's script and I'm going to try it with camera's as well. I'll certainly be sharing this video with my 3D Printing friends. Thanks again so very much Sir...
That's great news! Thanks
@@ChrisRiley At last, With the help of Pauls script I was able to get both the Anet & CR10 up and running / printing from my windows pc. The camera's on the other hand are a different story.
@@ChrisRiley Even better new now, I have dual instances with camera's up and running... You and @ppaukstelis are just AMAZING !!! THANK YOU BOTH SO VERY MUCH...
btw... I'm turning my friends on to this info now that I have it working as well....
That is way more approachable to a novice Linux user. Great work Paul!
Agreed!
Nice (y)
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This is a great video!!
Thanks to you, I installed octoprint on two printers.
Please also tell how to connect the camera later. I am having difficulty connecting the picam and webcam.
Check this one out. th-cam.com/video/9cLsWJmlXEk/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video. I got it working thanks to you. Has anyone got obico to work with multiple instances of octoprint?
Awesome, I haven't tried it yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Hi Chris I want to thank you for your amazing content. If its of interest to you, would it be possible in the future to make some content for CNC´s and Laser Cutter/engraver based on Marlin or GRBL, I´m having some hard time finding some detailed content as good as yours. Thank you in advance!
Thank you! I will have to look into it, I always wanted to get into CNC, I just need to clear some room to do it in.
Thank you for the great video! I have a quick question. mjpeg-streamer seems to be missing from the option for streamers. I only see ustreamer. Was this removed? or do i need to install it some how? ustreamer seems to not be working for me.
I think they are trying to get away from MJPG streamer. Ustreamer should work in it's place, but I am not yet sure how to troubleshoot it if it doesn't. Anything interesting in the syslog?
Chris been following your Multiple Instance vids and love them, nothing like using one PI for multiple printers. I'm curious, since the PI's are so expensive these days I've been looking into using a linux PC just as you showed. Does this script install Octopi as well or do I need to install it before running it? I once tried to install Ubuntu on a test PC and was unable to figure it out. Thanks again for your videos!
It installs everything for you.
Glad you like the videos, as @paul paukstelis stated, this script does everything for you, it's really easy to do.
An Ender 3 with a MKS Robin board? What witchcraft is this? It's nice that people are actively working on making Octoprint easier to setup. Reminds me of the KIAUH utility, but for Octoprint.
Your desk looks so clean! Thanks for the video and also Paul's great work!
Thank you!
Thanks Chris for the helpful info! Question: I have two MK3S+ machines, one is and has been running a pi4b on octoprint with octoeverywhere for some months and it's great. The second machine came with another pi4b. Is it possible, or even preferable to have dedicated pi4b for each printer respectfully, or is it better to have multiple printers connected and running off of one pi4b the way you have highlighted it in this video? Thanks in advance from a big fan of your vids. Cheers!
Thanks for watching! It's always better to have a dedicated Pi. It's just safer that way. The multi printer on Pi does work well though, so it's your call.
@@ChrisRiley cheers! Do you have any videos on the topic of setting up multiple pi instances running on the same octoprint? I'm not sure why, but I'm having difficulty in executing this. TIA
Hi Chris. I hope you can advise one more thing (maybe two ;P ):
- I want to run multiple printers (at least 3) on my raspberry and thanks to your video now I know how to set it up but...
- So far I've been working on my Ender3 V2 via Klipper with Mainsail, Fluidd and Moonraker... Can I use your method without reinstalling the whole system with these add-ons?
- Have you tried to use (or maybe you have a configuration file) Green Tevo Tarantula Pro with original motherboard and TCM2208 stepsticks? I used to use it with a marlin, but it's more convenient to use a Klipper on it...
Any advice/help would be appreciated
With Klipper it's really hard to mix octoprint with mainsail and fluidd. The KIAUH install will get them all setup, but you have to do it as a fresh install I'm afraid. The script doesn't like it when you try to go back and add instances. www.obico.io/blog/install-klipper-with-kiauh/
Thanks you very much! I don't find it in french so i will try your tuto and i think it will work! Excuse my suntax (frenchy) 😂
Thanks for watching. Let me know if I can help
This is fantastic. I put an old PC to work and now have both my Ender 3v2 and 3v3 set up to run via Octoprint. Thank you!
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When I ran it for my Ender 3V3, I got this message. "Your printer's firmware supports host action commands, but they are disabled." Anyone know how to enable those commands?
Liked and subscribed!
Thank you! You have to enable it in the firmware and reflash I am afraid. It's kind of a pain. th-cam.com/video/YDvFN51siMU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f2e1VwHLDO25uOMJ
that’s pretty nice, personally I’ll keep installing manually because: 1 I can , 2 much easier to debug if something goes wrong. I had a bad experience with kiauth setting up multiple instances of klipper and everything dying after an update…
Thanks for your insight. Good luck with your projects!
Love this video, sucsesfully running 10 printer without camera, I'm using old pc with i3 proc 8gb ram sff dell optiplex 7040 😀... Sir please make video how to install octofarm , your video 2 years ago is out of date to install octofarm 🙏...thanks a lot ❤🎉
I'll look into it.
So is the benefit to the Ender 3 running Marlin. The addition of Octoprint as a remote controller, as opposed to also using Klipper?
Marlin is self contained, so it's just easier to do things like control multiple printers. You can do the same kind of thing with Klipper, but the configuration are a lot more complicated.
Hi Chris, thanks for sharing this awesome video, and I'd love to try it out. I have a question though - on my Raspberry Pi I already have an Octoprint instance running which also has a webcam configured in it. Can I use this existing octoprint instance as the 'template', which I can then replicate for more printers ? Or is it be required to remove this existing instance and install Octoprint again via this script ?
I think you have to start over with this script, but not 100% sure. You can try to start it, it might tell you that you already have it installed and give you options.
What did you end up doing? Did you have to remove the instance and install again using the script?
@@dopefreshness77 Actually version 1.0.4 actively supports a prior installed version (to use as the template) because it asks for it. I would have tried it but I had already removed my originally installed Octoprint version by then.
So how does this look from inside e.g. prusaslicer or cura. Same as if you had 2 seperate Pi's right??
Yes, you would just add the port number and it will go to the correct instance.
Hey Chris, thanks for the video. I have a question: What if i want to use more than 4 USB ports on raspberry pi? I have 8 printers and obviously, i need more ports to connect all of them. Can I use USB hub?
Thanks for watching! Absolutely. I do it often. I would recommend using a powered hun just to make sure the devices have enough power.
since I've moved to klipper on my prusa mini I just can't look back at octoprint. both klippy and mainsail are lightweight enough to run multiple instances on same raspberry pi, which means multiple printers can be connected to a single device with little to none effort. literally "add two more systemd services for each new printer"
Thanks for your input!
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the great tutorial, as efficient as ever :)
I have a problem that you may have a solution for.
I've searched in the comments and on the net, but to no avail.
I followed your tutorial to set up two cameras, a C170 and a "nor tech" full HD (from action - 9$).
After a few manipulations, everything worked perfectly.
Given the quality of the nor tec camera, I decided to get a second one and replace the aging logitech.
The problem is that both cameras are strictly identical and have the same id:
usb-Jieli_Technology_USB_PHY_2.0-video-index0
so when I do a "ls /dev/v4l/by-id" I only get these two lines:
usb-Jieli_Technology_USB_PHY_2.0-video-index0
usb-Jieli_Technology_USB_PHY_2.0-video-index1
I tried a counter method with "ls /dev/v4l/by-path".
platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-video-index0
platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-video-index1
platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.3:1.0-video-index0
platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.3:1.0-video-index1
I can see my two cameras
I configured my conf files like this:
octopi.txt
camera="usb
camera_usb_options="-r 1920x1080 -f 10 /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-video-index0"
#camera_http_webroot="./www-octopi"
#camera_http_options="-n"
webcam2.txt
camera="usb"
camera_usb_options="-r 1920x1080 -f 10 /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.3:1.0-video-index0"
#camera_http_webroot="./www-octopi"
camera_http_options="-n -p 8081"
But I can't get both cameras to work in octoprint :/.
I don't seem to have loaded the webcam2.txt config (systemctl status webcamd)
If you have an idea that comes to mind, on the problem I'm a taker.
Have a nice day
Thank you! I think maybe it's bypassing the devices and using the default. Try adding the -d to both files. camera_usb_options="-r 1920x1080 -f 10 -d /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-fd500000.pcie-pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:1.3:1.0-video-index0"
@@ChrisRiley Yes, it works perfectly now 😁
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Thank you very much.
I have tried multiple times installing and reinstalling 3dprinters to linux server. I have 3 enders and 1 sovol I would like to add. I can add all instances into putty but won't move 1 ender but will all other 3 than can only move the first instance only. Need help.
The device can get confused because all of the printer boards have the same configuration numbers. The only thing I can tell you is to keep track of the USB ports they are plugged into. They have to always be the same.
What pi should I use for this? Can I get away using a pi 3b or pi 3b+?
Yes, a Pi 3 will run a couple of printers, 3-4 pretty easy.
Would this work with also installing the Octoklipper plugin?
Yes it will, but you would have to sort out all the different Klipper configs after the fact.
I don't get the option of creating admin user, also for the video streamer, I able to choose just ustreamer. Version 1.0.4
Interesting on the admin user, maybe something has change. They might be switching to ustreamer permanently now, it seems to work better for me anyway.
Hi Chris,
may you look in the Octoprint-matter on a Proxmox lxc-container ?
Proxmox is really great.
Greetings Matthias
I'll check it out!
@@ChrisRiley Hi Chris. I am still working on it. The lxc is running now under a given user with octoprint installed. The problem is to pass the USB from the Chiron/I3Mega to the Container. Different Introductions/Guides used but failed. Second it would be the cam to pass through. I would be very glad and as far as i research the net there are lots with this problem.
Greetings Matthias 😀
So i got the printers allready connecting, but not the cams. They are shown with lsusb but the devicename that comes back by "ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/" is the one of the printer. So I cant get the tty-Asignment. ;-)
@@mjf-private Check this out, th-cam.com/video/9cLsWJmlXEk/w-d-xo.html you will need to check under /dev/v4l
Hi I'm looking to set up 3 of my printers onto octoprint, can this be done with Windows instead of Linux by following this method?
Yeah, you can! Try this:
th-cam.com/video/T3GImtrLVjY/w-d-xo.html
Hey @chris riley! long time viewer. im having trouble getting my octopi to build... i keet gettin "Error: missing argument 'value' " would you happen to know what might be the issue? tried redoing the instance a couple times but no luck. any help is appreciated!
Thanks for watching! Huh, you are using this method with Paul's script? Maybe try pulling it down from github again, maybe it's a bug.
Yes using Paul’s script… I get the error when making new instances but I realize that everything works just fine… I didn’t I even try to log into the instance before I commented lol I was too quick.. appreciate your response. Working on custom start and end GCode for my ender 3 farm right now!
Hopefully I can catch you now… there something called FDM Monster, it’s like octofarm ! Would be a GREAT tutorial right now as octofarm doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon.
@@doobied816 Oh really, that sounds interesting, i'll check it out!
i have problems with cloning von github the console ask Username and password and wenn i tipped it in then it says: Authentification failed for it
Make sure you have the url correct, it should be this. git clone github.com/paukstelis/octoprint_deploy.git
Thank you for making this video. I was able to follow along and now I have everything set up and working! The only part I had trouble with is that if I used the IP port of the instance where my cam was set up the cam wouldn't show. Fix was to drop the port number and use the instance name. ex: 192.168.x.x/MyInstanceName. I used a spare OptiPlex 3040 micro running ubuntu server. Overkill, but I can now re-use the Pi I had for running just one of my printers for something else.
Awesome, glad you got it sorted and it worked for you. Paul's script is the best.
is this still valid for the new OctoPi 1.0.0 ??? or is there a better way to have two printers on a single Raspberry Pi? Thanks Chris
Yes, I think this is still the best way to get multiples running.
Hello, I can't connect my Anycubic I3 Mega S via USB, it can't find it. Do you have any tips on how it could work?
It could be a bad USB port. Will it connect to your PC using something like Pronterface? www.pronterface.com/
No matter what I do I cannot get more than 1 printer to connect. At first both wouldn't connect, then I connected the first one to /tmp/printer, disconnected and then connected to its /dev/ location then it connected but the second printer just wont connect. Ive tried multiple fresh installs of the whole system and followed the directions to the T but just wont connect. I re flashed the printers and that did nothing neither.
What printers do you have? Does the auto detect process find both printers?
@@ChrisRiley I have 2 Ender 3 Pro. But I didn't realized this did not work with Klipper so I went with the Kiauh app and got it working.
Despite all the kudos in the comments, I didn't get past square one on my Mac. Putty is a windows program even though your intro says your skipping Windows.
The install is being done on Linux, from Windows via putty. You would want to install this on Linux, from mac using Terminal.
@@ChrisRiley Yah, I just avoided the whole issue by setting up two "instances" ((I guess that's the word?) of Octoprint as separate bookmarks in Safari, one is on my local network as OCTOPI.LOCAL and the other as OCTOPO.LOCAL. I had two raspberry pi b+ already so no need for the economy of running two printers off one pi. I can swap from one printer to the other with a click of the bookmark icon (appropriately labeled with the printer name in BOLD LETTERS.). Thanks!
can't log into my pi via SSH, I did my password then after that i went with the pi/raspberry password because it could'v been this one but no. checked my password from the eoctoprint UI and it is correct so cant seem to log into my pi... any help would be appreciated
solved, thank you so much for the tutorial chris, well done
I'm glad you got it going! Thanks for watching
Chris im getting all sorts of crashing using the mulitple instance is anyone elese having issues i had octo on my 1 printer and never had any stopping mid print and since getting another printer and adding this im having crashing so i got a new PSU today and same thing
Ok after a new flash of octopi then not setting up the default setup but running Pauls on top its quicker than ever and no issues so far :)
That's great! Thanks for watching
this no longer works - broken on raspbian os lite 64 bit as of this morning - python not installed
This is the OS I was planning on using, how far do you get before failing?
Hoping this gets resolved soon.
Hi Chris,
I am strugeling a lot with this. This video does not represent the things I see on my putty-screen
First I got octoprint_deploy 1.0.4 in stead of version 0.2.3
And during the "prepare_system" the following annoying warnings appear
Adding group `uuidd' (GID 116) ...
Done.
Warning: The home dir /run/uuidd you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory
Adding system user `uuidd' (UID 111) ...
Adding new user `uuidd' (UID 111) with group `uuidd' ...
Not creating home directory `/run/uuidd'.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/uuidd.socket → /lib/systemd/system/uuidd.socket.
uuidd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
And when the preperation is done , there is no menu to choose from. I am asked to autodetect the first printer!
Also when I try to add a USB-camera the following is coming up:
mv: cannot stat '/home/pi/octoprint_deploy/cam_octoprint.service': No such file or directory
Instance must be restarted for settings to take effect. Restart now? [y/n]: y
Failed to start cam_octoprint.service: Unit cam_octoprint.service not found.
Failed to enable unit: Unit file cam_octoprint.service does not exist.
Because I am an newby with linux and Pi's . . . how do I get octoprint_deploy 0.2.3 in stead of 1.0.4? Than I can follow your video for a succesful multiple instance of octoprint on my Pi
The older version might not work on the new versions of Octoprint, that's probably why it was changed. It's probably a small bug. Leave an issue over on github, Paul should be able to help. github.com/paukstelis/octoprint_deploy/issues