mainsail VS octo4a

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.

If you have a spare old(ish) Android phone you can look into Octo4A. Just be sure to connect the phone via power blocked USB cable to avoid your phone charing the printer... And you need a phone you can charge and use USB host at the same time. Some allow this via split cables (Type-c dongles) or if your phone has wireless charging.

As the video mentions https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a :D I did need to get an adapter splitter and I only got it to work on a phone with USBC port, so nothing super old.

If you have a Android phone (or tablet), you can use the octo4a app.

At the bottom of the first post, this is what they recommend for Octo4A

I am honest, it is a bit more complicated and failure prone, but absolutly doable. octo4a

I run Octoprint on my laptop. Old Android phone is also an option.

I really need help with this one. I use an android tablet with Octo4a (https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a) and some plugins work fine but f.e. octolapse not and I get this report.

For whoever needs to know what I mean by Octo4A please visit the developers GitHub: https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a