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intelligent-agent / Refactor

Linux distro for 3D-printers
https://wiki.iagent.no/wiki/Refactor
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Add support for printing from USB drive #308

Closed eliasbakken closed 2 years ago

eliasbakken commented 2 years ago

It should be possible to add a thumb drive to a printer and mount it and make the files or folder structure available to Mainsail.

goeland86 commented 2 years ago

Maybe make an automount setup that automatically creates the mountpoint folder in /usr/share/models with the name of the USB device? We can make this work on Octoprint as well, and it would become platform generic.

eliasbakken commented 2 years ago

Yes, good idea to have it work for both mainsail and OctoPrint, but I think we might want to choose a different folder for OctoPrint. It's not a location that follows any standard, so perhaps both MainSail and OctoPrint can use /home/debian/gcode_files?

eliasbakken commented 2 years ago

It's not so easy to get this working with OctoPrint. If the USB drive that was used to install the new revision with is left in the USB port during a reboot, OctoPrint crashes. It seems to be related to the depth of the tree of the filesystem. So even when with just mounting partition 1 which is the boot partition, OctoPrint fails. One possible solution is to mount the disk in a different location, check the content of the drive and then choose action based on whether it is a Refactor drive or a g-code files drive. Another option is to not add the udev rule until mainsail is installed.

eliasbakken commented 2 years ago

Ok, so for now the last option was chosen. It has been tested and merged in main.