Having ordered my first 3D printer, I am giddy and preparing various things.
I have installed Octoprint on my home server as a Docker container, but when running it, it seems that it wants to have a serial connection to a printer. Octoprint expects to be running on a Raspberry that is connected via its serial interface.
What am I missing?
The printer I ordered (Prusa Mini) comes with a wifi dongle, so I guess there will be a way to reach it over the network. But that does not automagically mean Octoprint can work with it.
If you’re only using your computer for octoprint and it’s a pi, you should probably just install octopI on the thing as its os. I run octoprint on a couple orange pi zero’s, so I run it in docker. It also lets you easily use the computer for multiple things, and you can easily move your services from server to server with docker. Basically, unless you have a single use computer or something that makes docker rather difficult to use, docker is the way to go for hosting most things these days.