4hour print stopped 30min before done because windows decided to take a breakš¢ā¦ Life happens
and that is why I print from sd card instead of being tethered to a computer, had that happen to me also.
@Domm434 I was just going to say the same thing. I just avoided the connection all together. Using an SD card is easy enough.
Yeah, u are right. But i like to watch on my screen what he is doing. Atleast i know the problem and how to avoid it. If i do a 10h or more print ill use sd card tooš
I thing Windows waits until the worst timeā¦
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Normally I upload to the sd card but when I want to pause the print I go directly from PC. Here Windoze started an update, even though it was configured to only update at 1:00 am, this was in the middle of the afternoonā¦
Yeahā¦ I had the same problem, windows is a lil bastard.
Get a Raspberry Pi and put Octoprint on it. Windows issues disappearā¦ (as the Pi is sending the Gcode, not Windows)
@Jason_McMullan @N_Y_NakiYozora And from what Iāve heard, you can set OctoPrint to push the .gcode to the printerās SD-Card - you still are able to watch the status of your printer, camera and all, if you want, and even if your Pi should decide to somehow quit on you (itās supposed to happen sometimes, Iām told 
), the print still keeps on printingā¦
Yes on really large prints (20 mb or so) octopi quits and crashes
@Jason_McMullan Yeah the other printers are running off of piās with OctoPrint, this was an example of being bit by my laziness 
Octoprint is good, especially if you need to have that visual interface.! but you should really blow away the windows install and put in some Linux distro. No reboots needed after updates except for non-module kernel updates.
And donāt listen to the people talking about āfiddling with CLIā and āLinux is dih-fuh-cult derp derpā because Linux is incredibly easy to use nowadays.
Especially since most distros have a huge community/forum where thereās always a ton of people that know at a granular level whatās going on and how to fix things, while with Windows itās more likeā¦ ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Iāve run Repetier Host on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian) for years and never had the issues that Windows folks have complained about.
But the easiest way of course is to get a RaspberryPi and install Octopi on it.
Or just install Linux on the machine you already have and install Octoprint on it. (You can probably install Octoprint on Windows, but that wonāt solve your ārandom update rebootsā)
@Ingo_Ulrich You can push files to an SD card using Octoprint but it takes several minutes depending on the file size. Even if your printer is on another floor itāll take less time to just load it onto the SD card and walk it back and forth.
@Adam_Steinmark Well, yeah, thereās that, point taken - compared to a file transfer with 115200 bits/second (14.4 KBytes/second), even an old floppy drive comes out āfastā (those topped out at ~35 KBytes/second). But when youāre starting a 12hr print or longer, just start your preheat, then āpush and printā - by the time youāre up to temperature, your file has found its way over, too - whatās a few minutes of transfer time in that case? (And I tend to be pretty impatient, myself, so I can see where youāre coming from ā¦) And if youāre working with ~50-60 MB monsters of GCode files regularly, youāre most probably using something thatās able to transfer faster, anyway - up to 1 MBit/sec, or transferring by WiFi, most likelyā¦