Can you recommend raspberry pi / octopi alternatives? - eviltoast

I’m a huge fan of octoprint on raspberry pi. I’m not a huge fan of raspberry pi lately. I’ve heard of le potato and orange pi. Some searching shows that people have done it on both of those.

Does anyone have any experience running it on a small board computer other than raspi?

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve found LePotatois great, as long as my use case fits the processor speed.

    LibreComputer (maker of LePotato) also offers Renegade for a bit more oompf.

    The downside is that there’s far fewer pre built images available. The saving grace is that stock Armbian is fantastic, and can often be upgraded to match the pre built image I want with a few apt commands.

    Edit: I haven’t run OctoPrint on LePotato but my educated guess is that it would run just fine.

    When using Armbian to host projects similar to OctoPrint, I have needed to follow the Install from Source instructions from the project site. The experience wasn’t terrible, for me, but I am really good at getting stuff to compile.

    • PdeT@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have run OctoPrint on a LePotato, and it runs absolutely fine for me. It feels responsive and good, though I have no frame of reference for comparison.

      Installing it was easy, as there was a simple guide and program available. :::

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah LibreComputer boards have become my go to SBC now, if you’re fine headless the debian minimal image they offer is solid base image. I use Kiauh to handle my klipper setups, makes setting up klipper and related super simple, I think I recall an option to install octoprint with it as well.