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A guide to install Octoprint on the Creality WiFi Box or similar OpenWrt devices
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Does OctoWrt work on Creality Box embedded in a CR-10 Smart? #10

Closed winnall closed 2 years ago

winnall commented 2 years ago

I have a CR-10s, which has a Creality Box built into it. I assume that installing OctoWrt on it is no different from any other Creality Box. But will OctoWrt actually work with the CR-10s? Is there any other functionality important for the CR-10s in that Box?

Steve

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

Hi, OcoWrt will work on that box just like on the standalone box. the outside usb port connects to the box so you can plug a webcam there if needed. To flash openwrt on the box you can do it ota or the manual mode with the sd card though you need to upen the bottom plate of the printer

winnall commented 2 years ago

Thank you. I'll try it out when I have time.

priyankchouksey commented 2 years ago

I think you mean CR10 Smart. Yes, I just did a setup in the inside Wifi board. The only thing remaining to figure out is how to get the camera working. It is asking for credentials when the camera URL is accessed.

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

I think you mean CR10 Smart. Yes, I just did a setup in the inside Wifi board. The only thing remaining to figure out is how to get the camera working. It is asking for credentials when the camera URL is accessed.

comment out the user and pass in /etc/config/mjpg-streamer file or add the user openwrt pass openwrt in the link

winnall commented 2 years ago

Hi, OcoWrt will work on that box just like on the standalone box. the outside usb port connects to the box so you can plug a webcam there if needed. To flash openwrt on the box you can do it ota or the manual mode with the sd card though you need to upen the bottom plate of the printer

I cannot flash the CR-10s. I've copied cxsw_update.tar.bz2 (from ihrapsa/KlipperWrt) onto the root of the SD in the box, but the CR-10s ignores it and boots as usual.

Inside the CR-10s

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

Hi, OcoWrt will work on that box just like on the standalone box. the outside usb port connects to the box so you can plug a webcam there if needed. To flash openwrt on the box you can do it ota or the manual mode with the sd card though you need to upen the bottom plate of the printer

I cannot flash the CR-10s. I've copied cxsw_update.tar.bz2 (from ihrapsa/KlipperWrt) onto the root of the SD in the box, but the CR-10s ignores it and boots as usual.

Inside the CR-10s

Try this approache through it's web ui:

https://3dprintbeginner.com/how-to-install-klipperwrt-on-creality-box/

winnall commented 2 years ago

Something seems to have happened after all. I just didn't notice because the display hasn't changed and still controls the printer.

However, there is now a new WLAN called KlipperWrt. I have attached to it and done an arp -a to see what devices are attached, but there's nothing with the MAC of the printer.

The printer has also been attached by ethernet all the while, but is no longer assigned its address by DHCP.

There is no device at 192.168.1.1, so I cannot log in with ssh.

I was unable to try the web UI approach that you mentioned because the Creality image has apparently already been overwritten.

Any ideas please?

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

yeah, just follow the github guide... connect to that new AP and configure wifi or lan setup depending on whether you want it wired or wireless. then continue with the rest of the guide

winnall commented 2 years ago

I got as far as

pip install Octoprint==1.6.1

but the installation failed. So I tried the most recent version

pip install Octoprint==1.7.3

and that failed with a similar error:

Using legacy 'setup.py install' for sarge, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for watchdog, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for blinker, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for emoji, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for future, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for markupsafe, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for netifaces, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pylru, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for wrapt, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for regex, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pathtools, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: wrapt, sarge, regex, pytz, pylru, pkginfo, pathtools, OctoPrint-PiSupport, OctoPrint-FirmwareCheck, OctoPrint-FileCheck, netifaces, netaddr, ifaddr, filetype, emoji, colorlog, certifi, cachelib, blinker, zeroconf, werkzeug, websocket-client, watchdog, urllib3, semantic-version, PyYAML, pathvalidate, markupsafe, markdown, itsdangerous, immutabledict, idna, future, feedparser, Click, charset-normalizer, Babel, sentry-sdk, requests, Jinja2, flask, Flask-Login, Flask-Babel, Flask-Assets, Octoprint
  Running setup.py install for wrapt ... done
  Attempting uninstall: sarge
    Found existing installation: sarge 0.1.5.post0
    Uninstalling sarge-0.1.5.post0:
      Successfully uninstalled sarge-0.1.5.post0
  Running setup.py install for sarge ... done
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Running setup.py install for regex did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> See above for output.

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  Running setup.py install for regex ... error
error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> regex

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.

I found out that recent versions of regex are incompatible with OctoPrint (https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/issues/4377), but I don't know enough about Python to know what to change and where.

Any thoughts?

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

Hi, that's for python 2 but in openwrt that pip command installs python 3 octoprint version since only python3 is installed. That regex error is most likely a version mismatch. There's another issue #9 about updating issues. I'm working these days on getting the latest version installed

winnall commented 2 years ago

Finally got it up and running v1.7.3. Thanks for your help.

Somehow, during installation of Klipper, I got Python2 installed too. Perhaps it was when I was distracted by MainSail and tried to install that. However, once I removed all the python2 packages and installed your regex package and the netifaces package from https://github.com/ihrapsa/OctoWrt/issues/9, everything went perfectly.

Fast, it isn't :-) It reminds me of the late '80s. But I hope it will be adequate for starting a print a day.

Thanks for all the work in making this possible.

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

Finally got it up and running v1.7.3. Thanks for your help.

Somehow, during installation of Klipper, I got Python2 installed too. Perhaps it was when I was distracted by MainSail and tried to install that. However, once I removed all the python2 packages and installed your regex package and the netifaces package from #9, everything went perfectly.

Fast, it isn't :-) It reminds me of the late '80s. But I hope it will be adequate for starting a print a day.

Thanks for all the work in making this possible.

Yes, it's pretty slow on boot up. make sure you don't have klipper/moonraker installed and running as well. klipper with mainsail/fluidd would be a better alternative for this device but you lose the printer display.

winnall commented 2 years ago

My printer is, in fact, a CR-10 Smart, which is not the same as a CR-10S, it seems, which you actually pointed out.

Since I’ve had OctoPrint installed on the printer, the initial layer is appallingly bad (nozzle too high). Is it possible that ABL is implemented on the internal Creality Box and that I have nuked that by installing OctoWrt?

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

Hi, ABL is setup in marlin and saved in eeprom afaik. Did you reflash marilin on the mainboard or factory reset it?

winnall commented 2 years ago

I did a factory reset at one point.

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

then you've lost your abl settings. You need to recalibrate

winnall commented 2 years ago

But I have done that several times since the reset using the option “Auto levelling” on the LED screen.

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

I don't understand. Your ABL calibration settings are not saved?

winnall commented 2 years ago

I don’t know. All I know is that my print head is too far away from the bed with the corresponding messy first layer. Before I installed OctoWrt this wasn’t happening. Now it is. I’m not saying it necessarily has anything to do with OctoWrt, I’m just looking for causes.

I’ve got Creality Slicer on factory settings (which might be wrong, of course). But my suspicion, from a position of more or less complete ignorance, has been that ABL is not working for some reason.

ihrapsa commented 2 years ago

As I said, octoprint has nothing to do with this. ABL is managed by marlin. AFAIK cr10 smart had issues with abl on release (it was not saving abl settings) but I think got fixed on a subsequent firmware release. Make sure you've got creality's latest custom marlin firmware for that, or switch altogether to proper marlin if there's any firmware out there

winnall commented 2 years ago

This is resolved, and, as @ihrapsa said, it has nothing to do with OctoPrint. If anyone is interested, see https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/18932/how-do-you-make-a-new-cr-10-smart-do-auto-bed-levelling .