mainsail VS AM8-Switchwire-Mod

Klipper is awesome and once it’s installed and up and running I can control my printer via my LAN network and upload STL’s and control the printer using the Mainsail Web interface. https://docs.mainsail.xyz

I prefer Klipper. It requires another computer (such as a raspberry pi) but it is so much easier to modify and make changes. It also has built in leveling functions and other great benefits. https://docs.mainsail.xyz/ https://www.klipper3d.org/

It's https://docs.mainsail.xyz/

My recommendation if your just setting up: do yourself a huge favor and do not use OctoPrint. Instead I recommend using Mainsail of Fluidd. They’re both great web interfaces designed specifically for Klipper. Very fast, lightweight and take advantage of all available Klipper functions. Octoprint is very resource hungry.

Convert that thing to a corexy via Mercury One, throw a Stealthburner on it, and get yourself a raspberry pi to run Klipper/Mainsail.

In the past I used OctoPrint, but now I moved to Mainsail, because it has a better ui and some plugins are directly build in. You can install Kiauh and use it to install Mainsail or Fluidd next to OctoPrint.

Personally I prefer Mainsail. But Fluidd is also popular.

If you can get ahold of a Raspberry Pi, MainsailOS is a prebuilt sd card image that has everything preinstalled.

Not and answer to your question, but maybe still interesting for you: I created a Switchwire Mod for the AM8 (A8 with aluminum extrusion frame): https://github.com/maximilian-foerg/AM8-Switchwire-Mod

If you're converting your printer to an AM8, you may also want to take a look at the AM8 Switchwire Mod first. Especially since you already have a SKR Mini E3 and a V6 hotend, the mod would make sense.

How about going even a step further and building the AM8 Switchwire Mod? It also has a full config for the SKR mini E3 v2. In general, the SKR mini boards are great and a worthy upgrade over the stock Anet Board. I‘d highly recommend to combine it with a Raspberry Zero 2 WH and Klipper and Mainsail.

I'm currently designing a Core XZ upgrade for the popular Anet A8 printer/AM8 printer frame. I call it AM8 plus, and it was inspired by the Voron Switchwire. The project ist open source and available on GitHub (https://github.com/maximilian-foerg/AM8-plus-Switchwire), but it is still under development! In the video you can see a first working prototype. Release of v1.0 will be very soon, probably this month. It will be released on GitHub and thingiverse.