Best Pi Alternative For Klipper? (BTT PI 1.2)

[@trippinonaduck1379]

Just a clarification. The BTT pi 1.2 matches the usb ethernet layout of the Pi 4. The pi 3 is mirrored.

[@ModBotArmy]

Ahh good to know. I almost forgot exclusively have 3+ here and didn’t realize they had mirrored them for the 4. Will pin this 👍.

[@adameichler]

But still, the GPIO is on the opposite side of the board. So I guess the mirroring is just an accident that happened during the early stages of board design :D

[@lolthekidison]

One of the mounting holes is offset on BTT pi compared to raspberries.

[@jdmeadows7174]

Is there any reason to use this setup over a manta setup with a CB 1?

[@trippinonaduck1379]

@@adameichler i read somewhere it had to do with the changes in usb/ethernet sharing they ended in the pi4. Then it became a board layout space issue.

[@CornBred89]

Thank you so much for the walkthrough. You made getting Klipper up and going a breeze!!

[@3DPrintSOS]

Thanks for the vid Daniel. I was just about to do some content on the cb1, this will make things much simpler and a great resource for those who are hesitant.

[@JohnOlson]

Huge Kudos to walking people through how to change the default password! ♥

[@ModBotArmy]

Hey John! After the last video I was determined 😊. Might not make it too all but at least I can reference this now.

[@JohnOlson]

@@ModBotArmy - thanks for remembering and addressing it!

[@palewriter1856]

Nice presentation: very quick and efficient. However, there ARE a couple things that MIGHT be worth mention: there is NO CAMERA port, in case one entertained the notion of keeping an eye on their printer with a standard Pi camera; and secondly, this board will NOT run any of the MASSIVE library of rPi OS choices! Short of building your OWN OS, you're limited to the prebuilt options offered by BTT - which may or MAY NOT provide what you need! And I have found BTT "tech support" to be absolutely USELESS for answering ANY questions when things do not simply work for you right out of the box - which MY kit (this Pi + SKR Mini E3 V3 + TFT 3.5 to TRY to run Klipper on my old Ender 3) just DID NOT! Oh - one other bit of trivia, which threw me for awhile: the WiFi seems to be totally DISABLED if you connect the ethernet port to your LAN. I thought my WiFi port was dead so I HAD to STAY wired up. And another: I would LIKE to connect to my Mini board via UART instead of the standard Pi USB -> Mini micro USB -- but BTT documentation was too sketchy and "tech support" refuses to answer (as they have with SEVERAL of my pleas for assistance!)

[@gergohochoner6597]

Have you figured it out? I have the same issues.

[@TheButchersbLock]

Great concise review mate, I would love to see more videos with the BTT Pi in the future. One thing I have been having trouble with is using more than one camera on the and my manta board, I can only ever get one or the other webcam to work not both.

[@wakaduki]

This was super helpful! I'm building a Voron and the random assortment of parts makes it an ordeal!

[@jeromeh2090]

Thank's for the tip I ordered 2 of them !! great content as always.

[@dotnet97]

Was just looking at getting this so great timing! Ended up passing on it since powering a pi via the skr pico seems to work well enough, but this'll definitely be on my radar for whenever I need a pi before the shortage ends

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

6:53 thank you

[@Alex-ne7ze]

Amazing video. I have a few printers, i want to ask this: with one btt pi 1.2 i can manage 4 printers(with all the 4 ports of usb) ? I want to take a pt 1.2 for my printers and i want to know if i can use one board for all 4 printers.Thanks!

[@hassosigbjoernson5738]

I always wondered if an old Netbook like an Asus Eee PC or MSI Wind U110 with 2 GB or RAM and a Atom N270 or Z530 still would be fast enough for this or at least octoprint because these Netbooks are often "left over" somewhere in the family and do come with a display, keyboard and USB ports. But I haven't figured out which Linux to put on (since those are 32 Bit PCs) or how to measure the needed processing power. It's nice to see that there are other alternatives and how to set them up! Greetings!

[@MrBaskins2010]

Wavy build fam

[@nickolascuartero7854]

thank you the balena etcher program which is suggested to use through btt rpi 2 wiki doesnt install properly I had rpi installer just never thought to use it since the wiki suggest otherwise

[@baldosanchezvasquez9491]

Hi, great video, I have a question after installing klipper, how to activate some self-recovery function after a power loss, could you help me with that?

[@tritech]

Powering this without buck converters is worth it alone.

[@ModBotArmy]

I tend to agree.

[@raremc1620]

Personally, it wasn't an issue, since I had a spare buck converter with wire terminals on hand, but it does add an extra wire to the mix :D

[@MorrWorm8]

do you have to flash the motherboard if you have a pi with octokilpperpi on the Anet A8?

[@raremc1620]

Was looking at this board for my printer, but had already ordered an OrangePI 3 LTS before any good reviews came out

[@ModBotArmy]

I am sure the orange Pi will be fine. If you do run into any issues then at least you have an alternative option.

[@raremc1620]

@@ModBotArmy Oh, for sure! It did take a bit of taking care of annoying issues, though most of those were one the printer side of things (Ender 3 S1), since it refused to make a connection for a good while. Though the BTT PI 1.2 might be better suited for running klipper, since I'm sure it has enough power for it, and it comes in quite a bit cheaper than most the Orange PI 😅

[@leemajor1783]

How does this compare to the cb1 for btt?

[@rentaspoon219]

I like this but the cb1 load times are so slow😅 i hate having to turn my printer off now

[@scrogathon]

I cannot get hdmi to work on mine, is there a requirement for the monitor? Im trying to hook it to my 34 widexcreen

[@gergohochoner6597]

When I connect hdmi cable to my btt pi 1.2, the board just shut off. you have the same issue?

[@engineer9975]

Does the CAN board fit with that heatsink on or will it need a smaller one?

[@ryanbento1565]

It fits with a lil room to spare

[@redkingrauri3769]

Are these designed to work with other types of OSes like RatOS or the Voron flavors of klipper?

[@BeastMan12016]

I think he had mentioned that it takes anything that a raspberry pi would, so I would assume that those would work, though they might not be as optimized, but they should work.

[@achdubloedesau]

RatOS does work.

[@brendanstarkey]

Do you think that you could use the CB1.2 as a retropi for gaming?

[@ModBotArmy]

I am sure you could. I need to see how it compares but if it’s ballpark the pi 1.2 then I would say absolutely.

[@drright71]

1. Boo. The CAN controller should be built in. now and forever. 2. I wonder if that U2C board clears the heatsink well. 3. But yay! 24V input onboard!

[@ModBotArmy]

I agree. I really wish they had just included it or like you said found a way to integrate it.

[@RichmondHBK]

What does this Pi actually do? It seems to me that all it does is install Klipper firmware to your printers main board? Isn’t there other ways to install the firmware. If it replaces a Raspberry Pi then does it run Octoprint because that’s all I ever used my Pi for as my Ender installs firmware directly from MicroSD? Is it an alternative to Octoprint?

[@ryanbento1565]

Klipper is the alternative kinda , the rpi is still the computer , all the main board is is the slave board so to speak , octo or klipper runs on pi, figures out what it wants to do, sends directions to main board and main boad does the acatual movement

[@RichmondHBK]

@@ryanbento1565 Ok so Klipper is basically Octoprint. Klipper replaces Octoprint. But can’t you also install Octoprint inside Klipper?

[@bahaaezz1407]

Hi I got a question this board does not seem to work with 5G network it does not see the network .. any idea ?

[@toddzino58]

2.4 only

[@JRBFPV]

Is there a way to connect to it without wifi like a headless mode? Like if you don't have a wifi network Can you connect directly to the pi?

[@ryanbento1565]

Usb key and mouse and hdmi screen

[@matejavastyvarga1467]

Can you show us the UART setup? I cannot get my to work with SKR Pico

[@Felipeh999]

Using a raspberry pi or the BTT pi? I've had the same issue when building my V-Minion, I couldn't get the SKR pico to communicate with the rpi in UART. I got it to work installing canboot in UART mode, even though I'm not running canbus.

[@treowayne]

This is not compelling at all. It costs more than a 1GB raspberry pi. It doesn't have built in canbus AND the accompanying canbus daughterboard knocks out a usb port. Pretty half ass. The big problem: it has BTT's terrible documentation and technical support behind it rather than the community's experience with the Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi is potentially usable for other projects if the user stops using the board for Klipper. I personally refuse to use any board that relies on micro sd cards for storage any place where vibrations are present. This device really should have built in emmc to make it more reliable than a raspberry pi in a vibration prone 3d printer chassis. Really the only thing this thing has going for it is simpler power input. It's really a missed opportunity.

[@winandd8649]

But, You can't buy that rpi at this moment.. While there's still a rpi shortage in this world, this is still a viable option

[@John_Mack]

Why... why can't Klipper be ported to a Windows SBC? Linux is fun for hobby stuff, but for other stuff, I just don't like it.

[@MemzDev]

Dude you can't be serious, do you even know how Klipper works

[@MemzDev]

Windows would require: drivers, complete Klipper rewrite, heavy optimizations and tons of networking work

[@MemzDev]

Linux is just easier

[@sebscharpf]

So much easier, 2 weeks ago I was a Linux noob, yesterday I installed debian on a HP t5740 thinclient, installed Klipper and connected it via a serial to UART adapter to my tronxys wifi connectors, then flashed the modified firmware. It's seriously simpler than I ever expected.

[@sebscharpf]

If it is too complicated for him he could just an image

[@ThantiK]

Nobody calls it a "Sock" bro...

[@ModBotArmy]

You sure?

[@DJ-Hollandica]

n2 smash it