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OctoPrint On Air #2: July 2nd, 19:00 CEST (Patreon)

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2016-06-22 07:00:46
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You cast your votes and the results are in. The second OctoPrint On Air hangout will take place on July 2nd at 19:00 CEST.

I already put up the G+ event page. The Q&A module is enabled again as well, so you should be able to already prepare some questions that you want me to tackle in our live session. For that, just click on the tiny "Q&A" in the top right corner of where the video will be.


Just like last time, the hangout will also be broadcast to YouTube, where a recording of it will be made available automatically once the broadcast finishes too.


I'm looking forward to some interesting questions from you again, and telling you about what's been going on the past month :)

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Nelis Willers

Gina, thanks for your detailed answer to my question on preparing while waiting for Trium printer. My question was actually directed towards getting to know octoprint, not about Trium :0)) sorry for the poor question statement. I am reading extensively on the topic of printing in general, but have not read much about octoprint. Where to start with octoprint but not having a printer attached to it.

Nelis Willers

Thanks and keep up the good work!

foosel

Ah, sorry... I really misunderstood your question to be a more general one :) In that case I'd suggest following the excellent video tutorial by Thomas Sanladerer as linked on the download page first of all to get OctoPrint/OctoPi initially setup (I'm assuming you wanting to set it up on a Raspberry Pi here since that's the most common usage scenario, otherwise follow the setup guide best matching your personal usage scenario). In order to play around a bit with things it's probably best to experiment a bit with the built-in virtual printer (which I use for development for instance). In order for that to become selectable in the "serial ports" list however you'll need to enable a development flag first via the config file. Since editing this manually can be a bit tricky if you are not familiar with yaml and so forth, I suggest installing the Yamlpatcher plugin from the plugin repository (Settings > Plugin Manager > Get more and search for yaml) and then in that plugin (Settings > Plugins > Yamlpatcher) entering the following string: [["set", "devel.virtualPrinter.enabled", true]] - then click "Preview" (should look like this: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/NrTj5lV.png)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/NrTj5lV.png)</a> and if it looks ok "Apply" and then refresh the page and the "VIRTUAL" port should be available in the ports dropdown in the connection dialog. Baudrate for that doesn't matter. You can then upload GCODE files, simulate printing them, play around with timelapse settings etc etc, as if you had an actual printer attached to it. That should allow you to familiarize yourself a bit with the UI and available options :) Hope this helps!