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OctoPrint only has a single main developer. They also spend a lot of time triaging bugs (https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/issues). I'm sure they'd appreciate any help they can get.
OctoPrint is great. I use it with a modified Ender 3 Pro and Cura + Cura's OctoPrint plugin. Having said that, I have been very curious about https://github.com/meteyou/mainsail. I can't quite tell if it'll work with Cura so I can just hit "print" from the slicer and have it go, but the UI is quite slick and free of a lot of random notifications, etc. that come with OctoPrint.
I've got 2 printers - an artillery sidewinder and a big duet driven beast...both have an octoprint. Octolapse is soo much better then anything I've found for the Duet.
The SideWinder was a breeze to setup. I need to sit down and spend a day hooking up the Duet though - gonna try using https://github.com/kriechi/DuetRRF-timelapse
I've been using octoprint on my Ender3v2 from a Raspberry Pi 3B and I've never had such an issue in almost a year.
I use Marlin 2.0.1-bugfix branch for firmware because stock creality lacks some useful GCodes (such as for print pausing) but otherwise I did nothing special.
I'm also using OctoDash (https://github.com/UnchartedBull/OctoDash) on the Pi which is mounted onto the printer with the Raspberry Pi 7" touch screen (https://i.imgur.com/p8Mf5Em.jpg) and removed the stock screen.
I just got a resin 3D printer and had to do some digging to find something similar to OctoPrint for a resin printer. I found Mariner [0] which I’m thinking of installing in my Sonic Mini 4K. It’s limited to a few types of resin printers but I was feeling left out from how cool OctoPrint looks.
[0] https://github.com/luizribeiro/mariner
This is a pretty old thread at ~12 hours, but there's someone putting in an active effort to enable OctoPrint to run directly off of an Android device. Still pretty early days. The author currently still distributes and gathers feedback through the linked Telegram group.
https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a