OctoJoggler
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:49 am
Thought I would start a thread to let you know what I am doing and who I ought to thank.
First what am I up to?
Well I own 2 Jogglers, one that has been used occasionally as part of my headphone/amp/dac rig for some time. It runs on Roobarb's Squeezeplayer firmware which needs reinstalled every so often but has been a faithful friend. It is a bit hardware modified and does a good job.
My second Joggler used to supply music to the kitchen/dining/family room, but was displaced by Alexa some time ago. It has been annoying me for a bit, but ultimately it's music playing days are over. So what to do with it. I suddenly realized a few days ago that it is roughly raspberry piish in performance terms... and also runs linux. I am currently building/modernising a 3D printer.
So my plan is to install Octoprint on the Joggler and create an auto loading kiosk for the touch screen. This will then control the printer, including switching it on and off with mqtt commands. Ideally I will be able to install this on flash, but I am not a linux guy and if i get this running off USB I will be pretty chuffed
So far I have Roobarb's Bionic Base running on a USB stick. It is connected via ethernet and I have managed to get Octoprint running. I have yet to test it thanks to a disastrous and somewhat smokey mosfet failure on my existing 3D printer. I may need some advice on this. I just used the root login to install the Octoprint software, and I have yet to run it as another user or automate it to run as a service. I followed the instructions:setting up octoprint on a raspberry pi running raspbian
I did then try to adduser, but I failed to get that user to access the Virtualenv or start the server. I will play with it some more and see what happens.
Then I need to set up a front end, presumably using chromium and some form of kioskey setup. I am happy to listen to advice.
First what am I up to?
Well I own 2 Jogglers, one that has been used occasionally as part of my headphone/amp/dac rig for some time. It runs on Roobarb's Squeezeplayer firmware which needs reinstalled every so often but has been a faithful friend. It is a bit hardware modified and does a good job.
My second Joggler used to supply music to the kitchen/dining/family room, but was displaced by Alexa some time ago. It has been annoying me for a bit, but ultimately it's music playing days are over. So what to do with it. I suddenly realized a few days ago that it is roughly raspberry piish in performance terms... and also runs linux. I am currently building/modernising a 3D printer.
So my plan is to install Octoprint on the Joggler and create an auto loading kiosk for the touch screen. This will then control the printer, including switching it on and off with mqtt commands. Ideally I will be able to install this on flash, but I am not a linux guy and if i get this running off USB I will be pretty chuffed
So far I have Roobarb's Bionic Base running on a USB stick. It is connected via ethernet and I have managed to get Octoprint running. I have yet to test it thanks to a disastrous and somewhat smokey mosfet failure on my existing 3D printer. I may need some advice on this. I just used the root login to install the Octoprint software, and I have yet to run it as another user or automate it to run as a service. I followed the instructions:setting up octoprint on a raspberry pi running raspbian
I did then try to adduser, but I failed to get that user to access the Virtualenv or start the server. I will play with it some more and see what happens.
Then I need to set up a front end, presumably using chromium and some form of kioskey setup. I am happy to listen to advice.