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mainsail-installer

This is an install script to automate the Klipper, Klipper API, and Web Interface installation process on Raspbian.

Please read How to Install to get started.

What does this installer do?

The installer will give you the option to configure several common items from running sudo raspi-config: change password, change hostname, and configure timezone. Hostname and timezone do impact how the Web UI displays information.

You will be prompted to download a sample Voron config from Github for your printer's model if you don't already have a config. There is a sparse config as a backup to allow the Web UI to start.

The installer will install Klipper, the Klipper API, and the Web Interface.

The installer will automatically compile the MCU firmware for the controller you select. It will not attempt to flash the MCU. You can find the output firmware file at ~/klipper/out/klipper.bin.

The installer will provide the option to setup mjpg-streamer if you want to use a webcam. If selected, it will also configure the Web UI to display the camera feed.

How to Install

Note: You should backup your printer.cfg before running the installer. Please also consider installing on a clean SD card in case you choose to return to Octoprint or encounter installer issues.

Flash an SD card with the Raspbian Lite image from here.
Create a file named ssh (with no file extension) on the /boot partition to enable SSH.
Create a file called wpa_supplicant.conf on the /boot partition and add the contents to configure wireless access.
Place your printer.cfgon the /boot partition and the installer will move it to the home directory.

Sample wpa_supplicant.conf contents look like this:

country=US
update_config=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
 scan_ssid=1
 ssid="<YOUR_WIRELESS_SSID>"
 psk="<YOUR_WIRELESS_PASSWORD>"
}  

Boot and SSH into your pi. Default credentials are pi/raspberry.

Run the following commands as the pi user to download and launch the installer:

wget -q -O mainsail-install.zip https://github.com/ArmyAg08/mainsail-installer/archive/master.zip && unzip -j -d ~/mainsail-installer/ mainsail-install.zip && rm mainsail-install.zip
chmod +x ~/mainsail-installer/mainsail-install.sh
~/mainsail-installer/mainsail-install.sh

IMPORTANT: Please read all of the prompts carefully. There are many different configuration options to set and choose from.

Known Issues

• There are not currently any default configs for V0 or V1. Wget will fail in these instances.

To Do List

• Add MCU flashing
• Add V0 and V1 printer.cfg links when available
• Add SKR Mini E3 make menuconfig support

Thanks to tinpec for cleaning up the first pass of my ASCII art and Fulg for bypassing the manual make menuconfig in klipper and a few of the other Voron devs for helping me hack my way through this :)