Great video. At 8:58 I'd just add that Cura also supports sending sliced gcode directly to OctoPrint, and can monitor/start/pause/cancel prints. That's been done in Cura for even longer than in PrusaSlicer. Cura can even send a visualisation of the object which OctoPrint displays.

This has been the most useful OctoPrint tutorial I've seen yet. I've got it running all thanks to your video. Major props.

This was perfect. I had gotten away from 3D printing for a while and just started getting everything working again and I was still on an older version running Python 2 so I couldn't update. This was great, just backed up my settings, followed this, restored and everything is working perfectly with the latest build. its crazy how much you lose when you don't use it.

I've been using OctoPi for several years but just got a new Raspberry Pi 3 for a new printer. I had started setting it up yesterday the old way, but I had no idea about how much easier the Pi Imager makes the whole process. Thank you for posting this just when I needed it!

Pi-imager is a HUGE game changer. I can't say I'll miss the old ways of installing Octoprint. Thanks Tom for a great video.

Thank you so much for uploading this and going over everything. I have been printing for years and was under the impression that it was far more difficult to get Octoprint up and running

I've been looking into this for a while now. This is the first time though that I've seen it explained so easily. I was put off by by a lot of people making it seem so more difficult than you shown it. Thank you 👍

Great video! Love the Octoprint, I have it almost on all printers. It simplifies the process by a lot.

9:30 is the timestamp for plugins in case anyone else has already been using Octoprint and doesn't need the introduction.

Awesome video as always Tom. I've been using OctoPi for years and it is the most important addition to any 3D printer IMO. Didn't know about the secret menu, so thanks for the heads up on that too.

Oh fantastic topic! I’ve been printing for years now and NEVER used Octoprint… might have to finally jump in on it

That shift+ctrl+X tip is FANTASTIC, thank you!!!

Fantastic video Tom. The Prusa Slicer integration was the catalyst for me to give Octoprint a go. With your guidance I was up and printing in 10 minutes... Oh so simple. Thanks Tom... Your a legend.

Nice, current summary! I know there are lots of OctoPrint videos out there, so it is great to see an updated video. I was not aware of the RaspBerry Pi burner with the built-in advanced menu - great stuff!

Thank you, thank you for this video! I found myself needing to reload octoprint on my 5 year old Pi3B+. I remember what a huge pain it was to load the image and get everything setup. I was dreading the experience. All I can say is WOW, what a difference a few years makes in terms of installation. Easy Peasy. Thanks for the video and suggested plugins, Tom!

Having a pi and octoprint on my mk3s has made 3D printing so much better and more enjoyable. If you already use octoprint or plan to try it then look at which plugins you use and help you put then send the developer £$€5. That’s a small amount for you but really helps them out and keeps your favourite plugins alive. You would pay for other programs you use that make you pay upfront so why not help out these small devs that give you their time and make your life better. Don’t just take but make this world better for us all

Wonderful overview, as always. For the "Exclude Region" plugin, there's an even more convenient option, the "Cancel Objects" plugin. It does fundamentally the same thing, but understands multiple items on the buildplate and even knows them by STL name. So you can just cancel the object called "left arm" that's failing, instead of having to awkwardly draw shapes around it, especially for more complex shaped objects. Yes, it does need "help" from the slicer (trivial meta information), but that's either setup by default already in some slicers, or literally adds a line of CCode in the right field of the slicer. Also works with the gcode preview, so you can see which object it is you're canceling (or even click on it with an overlay).

Thanks for the great idea! Repurposed my old android phone to run Octoprint with my Ender 3 v2 that I just got a week ago. Learned a lot from your channel, thank you for making this hobby even more accessible

That camera settings plugin is a real life saver! Allowing you th change the bitrate of the camera really helps! Thanks for mentioning it in this vid!

I *JUST* installed my Octoprint on my Raspberry Pi 3b (March 2022), and did my first test print. So awesome! Thanks for this video. It helps a lot!!

Thanks so much for doing this video. I had a basic Ender 3 and hadn't paid any attention to Octoprint. After upgrading to the 4.2.7 board and the V2 display, I realized I'm now in a position to try it out. I also had a Raspberry Pi that I bought with good intentions for other projects that never materialized. Yep, I have the black-power problem, but thanks to your link about the "solution" I realized I could easily modify a USB cable to break the power connection...easy peasy. I'm going to like this. I've already tested it and except for the back-power issue, it works well. Thank you!!!

Finally got around to installing Octoprint, this and the good work of people writing Octoprint and its plugins, made it super easy. Thanks!

after a few of years of using this, I bought a new printer and wanted to do a fresh install, this video was helpful and more updated than how I did it years ago.

Thank Tom . I have made several attempts in the past to set up octoprint. Once several years ago with a full size pi and never got the wifi working . i made another attempt a few months ago with a couple of pi zero-w s and had difficulty finding the ip addresses. today i picked up a pi 4 kit from micro center. followed your video .. and it works.

Thanks, a welcome update on the original guide. Thanks Tom!

I just installed Octoprint on surface pro 3 sitting next to my 3D printer within the last few weeks. Loved the recommendations for plugins.

Thanks for this video! Just got started with 3D printing last week and had a Pi 2B lying around, which this video was perfect for.

How timely, I was planning to set up octoPi for the first time this weekend. Thanks for the tips, especially the raspberry auto-download section. I was totally unaware of that.

Thank you!! Thanks to this video, I followed the rabbit down the hole. And while I was there, I was reminded of Bonjour. That functionality has been broken on my system for ages. I re-downloaded and re-installed it. Now my computer can access network devices by name again! Again, THANK YOU!

I live in Australia, and almost no-one has heard of the Fritz!Box I am running. It gave me actual joy to see you also have a 7490! Thanks for the great video, well all of your videos really.

You are the reason I am getting octopi! Such a useful in depth setup, thank you

I'm running my Octoprint from my pine64. Super satisfied, provides way more power than it needs out of the box.

Thanks for the great video! I followed your older video when I originally installed OctoPi on my rasberryPi. And now this video was super useful when I needed to upgrade to the latest version of OctoPrint and Python 3. Unfortunately, I didn't properly download the backup I created so now I am starting from scratch with my plugins and custom commands.

I am SO glad I stumbled on this video. Because my 3D printer lives to find ways to fail, I am glad to have found out my printer is one affected by this issue. Since the needed parts are on order, I am glad a simple piece of electrical tape will prevent any problem. And I always have electrical tape on hand. Thank you very much!

Thumbs up for showing the hidden advanced settings of the raspberry pi flasher! Amazing. Well produced video. Thanks.

Thanks for posting these videos! I'm brand new to 3D printing and your series has been invaluable to me!

Fantastic tutorial, I'm less than a week old 3dprinter owner and this really helped!

Good old Tom! A very nice video. Please make more of these technical stuff.

Great video. I didn't knew about the pi-installer and will try it for sure.

I had to repeat parts of the video several times to catch everything, cause english is not my native language. But your informations and "how to"s got my Pi running, thank you so much!

Great video! I've been using OctoPrint with all my FDM printers for ~3.5 years now, and everybody should have it! Utterly indispensable, and dead-simple to set up! I power each RasPi using a DC-DC step-down converter wired directly into the printer PSU, but I'm looking to eventually switch them over to PoE since they're already on a wired network, then they can always be on and let me remotely switch the printers on/off. That would be _hella sweet!_ 😌 btw, quick tip for the USB back-powering issue; It takes a little finagling, but with some kapton tape and a good pair of tweezers, you can insulate the power pins in the USB A connector so only the data pins connect to the Pi. I've got my RasPi cams on lengths of bootleg Line-Loc articulated coolant hose attached to custom 4040 endcaps on my printer frame. For now I'm still using ribbon cable, but I've got these boards that pass the camera interface plus 3 additional GPIO/power lines through an HDMI port (No conversion, just using HDMI as a convenient bundle of conductors.) A nice thin HDMI cable is a lot cleaner than the ribbon, and I figure I can use the extra 3 pins to power/control an RGBW ring light on the cam or something. Thanks for the plugin tips! I've been using CancelObject, which requires parts being defined in the slicer. "Exclude Region" sounds like a much more elegant solution! Going to have to get Camera Settings, too. I've been using console commands via puTTY terminal! Shout out to Bed Visualizer for helping maintain my sanity! Surprised you didn't give it a mention.

This is going to be my next project, I really appreciate the video. Great job.

Always cool videos from you. Thanks Tom !

Wow, I did not know about the convenience option of prusaslicer integration. That will come in handy! Thanks Tom!

Short, informative and to the point! I LIKE THAT!

been using it for YEARS and its super great, their are even plugins for cura that let you send jobs straight to the printer. my favorite mod ive made to all my printers is making cases that have small oled displays built in, with a little bit of wiring to the gpio and bash scripting and python, they now show the ip address of each printer and the progress of each print. also have the octotouch plugin setup running on small touchscreens plugged into the hdmi, all of this has been integrated to enclosures mounted to the printers, its great to have controls actually on the printer

Fantastic setup process, I usually use Echer and then flash my SD card however, the way you have shown is much simpler as you can use the wifi settings during setup. Thank you very much, I just got the neptune 2 as well, it's working flawlessly.

Ok… this is extremely relieving. Thank you for such clear delivery of quality information 🙏🙏👍

Jeez I am so glad I found this video again. Had to set up my raspberry pi again because I just moved, and I watched a bunch of other "updated" videos on how to do this and I just was not able to get it done. I actually ended up corrupting THREE micro SD cards somehow while watching these videos lol, the good 32gb evo ones! I was almost about to call it a night, thanks again Thomas

Muito obrigado Thomas Sanladerer! Essa sua aula em video resolveu um grande problema que eu estava há dias tentando solucionar. Você foi claro, preciso e didatico. Muito obrigado!

An excellent, informative guide! Thank you!

I am using OP for almost two years now and i didn´t know exclude regions... It is EXACTLY what i missed! Thx!

Great Job! i had everything installed and running in no time!

Great help. Just got a Raspberry Pi and found your video. Thought it was going to be complicated but it all worked first time :)

Very easy to follow! Running the Pi Imager now. Thanks Thomas :)

Thanks for the video! Got my first printer and I have an old Pi 3 lying around from 2017, so definitely gonna set this up.

Amazing as always! Thank you for your videos

The Video we needed, thank you!

Inspiring and clear presentation! Thank's!

Great video - worth it for the ctl-shift-x tip alone!

Great Video! Thank you for the clear and informative guidance!

Watching this with all these plug-ins installed on my 8gb Pi 4 with Pi camera that works flawlessly on my Snapmaker 2.0 for last few months :') Thanks Gina for this amazing software, please donate if you like Octopi

Thank you Tom, this is exactly what I needed.

Thanks for the video, it’s been extremely helpful.

love elegoo. i just got my first printer, a neptune 3 pro and i love it!

Another Anker fan! I love love love their products.

Great video! Another plugin that I use is Safety Printer, that monitors my printer to avoid it caching fire.

Fantastic video bud, thank you! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Had to reinstall Octoprint. Helped me a lot again. Danke schön!

Thank you very much for this video, it helped me a lot!

Wow, I've always assumed Raspberry Pi's and Octoprint were way too complicated for me to set up. After watching this, I'm definitely going to get a Raspberry Pi and get it set up! I've tried using Zoom to check in on prints when I'm at work but it worries me to not have controls. Also even though I pay for their subscription, the meeting still expires after a certain amount of time and I just have to trust that everything will be fine. Having controls and video at all times will allow me to print way bigger prints since at the moment, I only feel comfortable doing prints when I'm home or if there's only a short amount of time left when it's time to leave (with the Zoom meeting set up). Thanks for the tutorial! Love the community around 3D printing!

Thank you for your advice. It is very useful for 3D printer.

Thanks for this video! I will try to setup OctoPrint and TronXY X5Sa Pro

I've been using OctoPrint almost since I first got my printer a couple of months ago, but I'm always looking out for interesting plugins or additional info. Great content, well done.

This helped out alot. Camera is coming in tomorrow. Thanks

I love your videos! Thank you for making this

it's gotten so much easier to set up your os... I had to redo my octopi sd since I was having some problems and was surprised by how easy it has become.

Thank you!! The Best Tutorial on KZfaq!

So glad I watched this video. I am a software developer working with a lot of machine learning and CNNs and was thinking about making something like "spaghetti". You saved me a lot of time now going down the wrong path 😅

Omg i never knew you could print direct from prusaslicer to Octoprint. What a freaking tip!

I think it would be cool if you could link the Spaghetti Detective to the Exclude Region function. I haven't tried OctoPrint as yet, but I really like the look of it and so I think I will try it out. Thanks for the video Tom! 🧡

as always amazing content!! would be nice to see your take on the pi zero 2w in this application.

Wow, I didnt realize you could configure the Pi with the Imager. Thanks for that tip!

Really great informative video, I've had a spare pi 3 laying around for a while and was looking for something to do with it, so I guess I'll set it up on my mk3

Hey, thank you! Very helpful.

I am using rpi imager often and honestly i didnt know about the ctrl+shift+x shortcut, thanks!

aaaw just like ketchup you made us wait for that secret menu trick... loving it!

first time using octoprint with a multi part print aaaand... i needed the "exclude region" plugin. thanks for telling me that ;)

Thanks. This is first guide which worked for some reason even though steps were same like in other videos. So you are now my lord and saviour. . . . Now i am just waiting for reliable power source. I can't update or install plugins because i heard undervoltage can cause that. Anyways, that's story for another time. Thankies again good sir!

I just bought Elegoo's Mercury Plus 2 wash and cure station on Prime Day. Tried it for the first time today and really liked it.

You saved me so much time, thank you!!! 😊

omg those plugin are amazing! touchUI, exclude region (which is very very rare it happens) and more are not installed. Thanks! my favorite you did not mention are arc welder Tempsgraph Navbar Temp Simple Emergency Stop

I was so unbelievably tired & feed up with cheap or too long USB cable and shitty loose micro USB plugs messing with my Pi that I just ran 18AWG wires from a dedicated 5V powersupply straight soldered into the Pi's PCB. * there ... are you happy? lets see u brown out now ! * It finally stopped messing with my head after that :D

thanks man, you utter legend

Octoprint is the default way to operate my Makergear M3! It's definitely nice, provided you have no issues connecting to your local network.

The "bed level visualizer" is also nice 🙂

omg thanks for the idea about (CTRL,Shift X) because I never knew that

Good info.... good video. Really is an easy setup, especially with help like this. Man.., the raspberry pi is just such a cool little thing. Just got one, a 4b. So versatile and powerful all in the size of a pack of smokes...lol.

Great videi, thanks for sharing

Totally late to the game I know, but thank you, you have convinced me to do this!!!!