OctoPiPanel v0.1

OctoPiPanel creates a simple interface on a small screen to control OctoPrint.
OctoPiPanel requires Pygame to be installed. Pygame can be downloaded from http://pygame.org.
OctoPiPanel is developed by Jonas Lorander ([email protected]).

https://github.com/jonaslorander/OctoPiPanel

This is a (slow) work in progress.

Simplified BSD-2 License:

Copyright 2014 Jonas Lorander. All rights reserved.

Setup

Requirements

• OctoPrint >= version 1.1.0 running on a Raspberry Pi on Raspbian
• Adafruit PiTFT (http://adafru.it/1601)
• Python 2.7 (should already be installed)
• PyGame (should already be installed)
• requests Python module

OctoPiPanel can be run on Windows as well to ease development.

Pi TFT Setup

Follow the DIY Installer Script setup at Adafruit to set up the Pi TFT correctly. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/easy-install

Getting and installing OctoPiPanel

The setup is pretty basic. You'll be needing Python 2.7 which should be installed by default, Git, and pip.

cd ~
sudo apt-get install python-pip git
git clone https://github.com/jonaslorander/OctoPiPanel.git
cd OctoPiPanel
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Settings

• You need to activate the REST API in you OctoPrint settings and get your API-key.
• Put the URL to you OctoPrint installation in the baseurl-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file. For instance http://localhost:5000 or http://192.168.0.111:5000.
• Put your API-key in the apikey-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file.

Running OctoPiPanel

Start OctoPiPanel by browsing to the folder of the Python-file and execute
sudo python ./OctoPiPanel.py &
In a screen session (auto start scripts will be coming later). Yes, sudo must be used for the time being.

Attributions

PygButton courtesy of Al Sweigart ([email protected])