Containerised distribution

[amorphic]

Resin.io provides a standard containerisation platform for embedded devices.

One of the biggest problems with installing + distributing opengb is installation and upgrades for various architectures. It would be nice to provide containers built on top of the standard resin.io containers for deploying opengb.

Once caveat is that such a distribution wouldn't allow for a graphical interface served from the device itself.

[amrithmmh]

Is this project active?

[amorphic]

@amrithmmh alas no. If you're looking to connect your printer to a network I recommend Octoprint.

[amrithmmh]

@amorphic i want a UI screen on raspberry pi to control my 3d printer...Can you atleast guide me how to install or build the project from source so i can use it.
I am using raspberry pi 3b

[amorphic]

@amrithmmh you probably want Octoprint with the TouchUI plugin. Follow the installation guides on the Octoprint Wiki.

[amrithmmh]

@amorphic I tried octoprint + touchUI but the Touch UI interface isnt good compare to the screenshots i have seen from opengb...Can I ask you why this project is no longer maintained?

[amorphic]

@amrithmmh it's a little complicated...

OpenGB was conceived as the touch-screen and network interface for the re:3d Open Gigabot project. OpenGB was designed to be "API first" from the beginning, with Amorphitec developing a websocket API in Python for controlling the printer and @yeomps developing a reactive single-page web app in VueJS based on designs by @katyjeremko.

The touch interface did indeed work well. The screenshots don't quite do it justice though this video does a better job.

But part way through the project re:3d changed direction and decided to discontinue their support. At the time Octoprint was far ahead in terms of features and user-base and re:3d had other priorities. Amorphitec took ownership of the entire project but now that Octoprint is a defacto standard (financially supported both by Patreon contributors and Lulzbot) there seems to be little point in devoting resources to developing a competing open-source 3d printer controller.

Having said that it might be possible to re-imagine the OpenGB touch interface as an Octoprint plugin if there were sufficient interest + demand and if the OpenGB API was flexible enough to support it. Like all Open Source projects, it would just be a question of time...

[amrithmmh]

@amorphic thank you for your detailed reply
Yes I think Octoprint is really good no doubt about it but i can see many printers with touch UI (not opensource) which is far easier to use than the conventional encoder+lcd type , but there isnt many touch based controllers.
Only Octprint-TFT(on raspberry pi) and Toggle(based on beagleboneblack) + hardware based controller like Manga screen is currently opensource but all are having its own drawbacks
hope Opengb interface becomes a plugin for Octoprint
Once again thank you!