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take a look at the raspberry pi and octoprint. this will do exactly what you want. it will give you a web interface where you can upload prints to, it will allow you to start and stop prints, monitor them via webcam and give you full reporting…a raspberry pi with webcam, PSU and SD Card is like 50 euros so small investment, loads of fun :slight_smile:

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+1 for OctoPrint (and a Pi if you have one). I haven’t used it in a while but IIRC you can copy .gcode files onto the SD card while it’s in the printer using this software as well and then start/stop it from the interface on your Pi or computer, (all this can be done over WiFi too), thereby removing the problems associated with printing over USB

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I Disagree with you James. it was never taken away since it was never put in :slight_smile:

UM2 has always been a “print from SD Card” kind of printer but printing via USB certainly works!

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well, nt completely… even if the print file is on the printers SD Card, it will still be controller via Octoprint on the Raspberry Pi… this means that if the power to the RPI goes out, the print stops…

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Sorry for I miswirte. we also tried can not direct connection with an Ultimaker 2 on the USB port to print something. Hence, we just via SD card. Have many pepole this problem?

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+1548pts for you.

Ultimaker never intended to make their machine work using a USB cable…

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It’s not a problem since you’re not supposed to make a direct connection to the machine EXCEPT when updating the firmware.

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I tried with the raspberry pi… but i got stuck with the correct image to download… and im really bad with coding, or linux…does some one have a good tutorial simple (for simple human beings)?

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google OctoPi :slight_smile: its also referenced on the octoprint homepage. it’s basically a ready to go image for the raspberry pi with octoprint on it.

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Hi,

Yes you can, Simplify3D allows you to do this. However I tend not to use this feature very much as it means leaving the computer on for the entire print. Also, if it crashes then the print will fail.

Scott

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True, but that’s a power issue, if the power to the printer goes out, the print is going to fail anyway :stuck_out_tongue: just make sure the Pi has a sufficient psu.

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yeah thanks, I meant that i would apreciate if some one has a good and simple tutorial for using the raspberry pi… :slight_smile:

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Look for ‘Tom’s guide’ on youtube. Nice tutorial about the raspberry pi and connecting it to the um2.

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Hi Eytan, I gave Octoprint a try last saturday and wrote an Instructable with my struggles :wink: Maybe it’s helpful to you :slight_smile:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Wireless-3D-printing-with-Octoprint-on-an-Ultimake/

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Thanx to you all, I will dive into the pi en octoprint first and check that out

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This is possible without 3rd party application.

Just set the settings of the GCode flavor to Makerbot

You just have to set the van in the gcode to activate it.

But i don’t know how to fix this.

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question: why would you build you own image? there is a ready to go image called “OctoPi” which has everything pre-installed… just download the img and flash it to your drive…

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I don’t understand what I have to do to get started in the sense:

- connect my laptop tot the USB of UM2

- and then…

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Open Cure,

Go to machine settings.

Change Gcode flavor to (makerbot… something)

I don’t have Cura available at the moment.

The icon changes to Print from usb.

Then you can print with usb.

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Hey Freek,

3DPrinterOS controls Ultimaker 2 over USB! You can try it at cloud.3dprinteros.com

Taavi,