3DPrinterOS Client for the Raspberry PI

Updated 2 months ago by Andrew

3DPrinterOS Client connects your 3D Printer to the Cloud.

It supports all platforms, but most users prefer to run it on the RPI because they don't need to keep their PC close to a 3D printer.

3DPrinterOS Client for the RPI is an image, the whole OS with 3DPrinterOS Client running. As a base it uses Arch Linux OS.

Step 1. Generate an image

Go to the Downloads page and press Request Raspberry Pi image
Enter your WiFi Network Name and Password, so the image will be connected to your WiFi network straight away. You could leave these fields empty if you are planning to use Ethernet connection, or just want to manually add the WiFi configuration in the future.

Step 2. Install the 3DPrinterOS Client image on the SD card

Prepare your SD Card. Insert into your computer.
Extract the image file from the downloaded .zip file, so you now have a .img file.
Flash the image onto the SD Card.
Find How to Flash SD card in guides:
Using Windows
Using Mac
Using Linux. Joke? No way that you don't know how to flash sd card if you're on Linux. I'll leave it here, and won't tell anyone.

Step 3. Connect your 3D Printer to cloud

Insert SD Card into RPI
Turn on RPI
Connect the printer to RPI
Go to your account in 3DPrinterOS. You'll see a new printer appear on the Printers page
Probably, the printer will appear with the waiting for connection status. You need to select the printer type.
This happens when the VID:PID is not unique. Go to the Printer Settings for this.
And select the appropriate printer type
Voila! The printer is ready. You are awesome 👏

Troubleshooting

Make sure your RPI is connected to the WIFI network. How?.

To find out your RPI IP Address. Navigate to Printers:
1. Filter.
2. Toggle "Show hosts".
3. See the IP and MAC address of the RPI attached to the printer.

Read about different ways on how to find out the RPI's IP address here.

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