The box was pretty picky about connecting to printers and there were many other problems. In addition, the box integrates with a Thingiverse-like library and does cloud slicing, which is attractive when you have a very small computer connected to your printer. A Raspberry Pi with a similar case would be at least twice that price. You can buy the Creality box for about $20. You might wonder why you’d want this system when Octoprint exists? Mainly, the value proposition is the price. noticed that Creality now has an inexpensive WiFi interface that promises to replace Octoprint and decided to give it a quick review. We have 10 printers running SimplyPrint, where we have two Pi's each running 4 printers - done so for years without issues.A very common hack to a 3D printer is to connect a Raspberry Pi to your printer and then load Octoprint or a similar program and send your files to the printer via the network. My colleague would also be able to help you set it up on a regular non-Pi machine, although Pi would be the easiest for you to set up and maintain in the long run. Let me know if you want me to give you a demo :) We have quite a few print farms using our platform everyday, enjoying features like "print queue" and "multiprint" which are great for print farms. We're new on the market, but our goal is to make 3D printing simpler for everyone _one_ platform for all your printers, with all the features you'd need for your printer. A bit like OctoFarm (of course just better, IMO heh). I'm the co-creator of a 3D printer management system that sounds like it'd fit your needs. It's also possible to run a few printers per Pi or machine (we usually run 4 printers on one Raspberry Pi 4B - works like a charm). In my experience, Raspberry Pi's are reliable, but if you don't trust them you can always go the "hard" way set up everything that would run on a Raspberry Pi, on a bigger Linux-based computer. Most printers will require something like a Raspberry Pi to make the printer "smart" and make it remotely manageable & make it "smart". Hi there :) As you haven't said which printers you're using, I'm unsure what your options are. So what else is out there? What do you like? What have you tried? I would prefer to keep my data local if that's possible, but if it isn't it needs to be encrypted somehow. 3DprinterOS - Seems interesting if not a little basic (seems made for beginners but still haven't tried it so who knows)Īnd that's basically all I know about.Octofarm - Seems nice but seems to require a raspberry pi per machine (sorry I don't trust a RPi to be reliable in a production situation after having two crap out on me).At the end of the day it doesn't really save us time, which is the main reason for remote management in the first place. While it was a breeze to set up the UX is not intuitive, it doesn't appear to have a central repository for all my gcodes (am I wrong here?), and the remote management notifications are not well thought out (the Repetier mobile app looks like a high schooler made it). I thought Repetier was specifically for that type of thing, and after buying/configuring a linux server with Repetier we have been very disappointed. I am growing a print farm, currently at 6, and predictably need remote management software in order to submit and monitor all the printers easily. Non-reddit communities are listed in our getting started guide We welcome community contributions to this wiki! Related Communities Hit the report button or message the mods NEED HELP? WE HAVE A WIKI!
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