- download and flash the Armbian image to the micro SD. I went with Jammy CLI and it's worked fine
- insert the micro SD, connect your peripherals now if you don't plan to configure over ssh, power up and boot
- if configuring over ssh, authenticate as
root using password 1234 for first-time setup
- root ssh access is automatically disabled after this
- complete the default setup (shell selection, locale selection, user/pass, etc.)
- Exit root and login as the newly created user - OctoPrint doesn't support running as root
- run the armbian configuration utility to stand up anything else e.g., wireless networking
- I strongly recommend enabling avahi (System menu) so you can use
http://lepotato.local in your browser
sudo armbian-config
- install python dependencies
sudo apt install python3-venv python3-dev
- create and activate an octoprint virtual environment
python3 -m venv octoprint
source octoprint/bin/activate
- install octoprint
pip3 install octoprint
- create an octoprint service to automatically start the octoprint server on boot, at path:
/etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service
[Unit]
Description=octoprint service
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=USERNAME
ExecStart=/home/USERNAME/octoprint/bin/octoprint serve
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- replace
USERNAME above with the account created during setup
- enable the service
sudo systemctl enable octoprint.service
- connect the Potato to your printer and reboot
- navigate to your Potato in a browser.
5000 is the default port
- happy printing 😎
Purpose and motivation
It's December 2022 and Raspberry Pis are still too expensive. Luckily we have the AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato). No prebuilt OctoPrint images exist for it, but we can get everything working smoothly with Armbian.
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