OctoPrint Plugin Not Starting stepd

[pearson]

I'm just starting out with step-daemon, so I could easily be missing something here... :-)

Short story: after uninstalling and reinstalling the OctoPrint plugin, stepd is not started automatically.

Setup:

• OctoPrint runs on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. The Pi is running the latest Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit) and is updated.
• OctoPrint is running v1.4.0 stable. It does have a couple 3rd party plugins.

The steps I had taken:

1. I initially installed the OctoPrint plugin using the URL (it did not show up on the Plugin Manager's list.) This appears to have started stepd -- stepd showed up on the process list.
2. I uninstalled the OctoPrint plugin using the "clean up" option.
3. The process list showed stepd still running. I rebooted the Raspberry Pi.
4. I reinstalled the OctoPrint plugin. However, stepd was not started.
5. Restarting OctoPrint, and then restarting the Pi, did not start stepd.

I had not cloned the server code, and the only install I had done on the Raspberry Pi had been the plugin.

(The plugin uninstall and re-install were due to not getting the communication with the printer working. That's a different issue for me to sort out. :-) )

[colinrgodsey]

I'm currently rewriting this project in go. Automating the build/run from octoprint using the current scala codebase is way too brittle and messy. hoping to have the rewrite done soon, should make the octoprint plugin far more stable

[colinrgodsey]

rewrite is done now, should be much more direct connection management