I didn't have enough outputs on my printer controller after switching to the Azteeg

3D Printing HercuLien and Eustathios
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I didn’t have enough outputs on my printer controller after switching to the Azteeg X5 mini to drive my led lighting strip. So I am using octoprint system:actions to run the led light strip via the raspberry pi GPIO and a sainsmart 2channel 5v relay board. In the album I have a wiring diagram of how I connected the relay, and videos of the file edits and operation. Below is a quick description of what you need to do on the raspberry pi and octoprint to get this working:

***You must install WiringPi to utilize the commands I used
***Install instructions and support for WiringPi can be found at http://wiringpi.com/download-and-install/
***To install WiringPi SSH into to octoprint pi server (I use putty from windows)
***Use the following commands in the terminal to install WiringPi

git clone git://http://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd wiringPi
git pull origin
./build

***Now you must tell the PI how the GPIO pins will be used (we need them as outputs)
***Add text below to the end of /etc/init.d/octoprint
***Edit it by SSH to the pi and type: sudo nano /etc/init.d/octoprint
***CTRL-V to scroll all the way to the end
***Type the text below, then CTRL-X to exit and save when exiting

#Run export GPIO Raspberry

/usr/local/bin/gpio export 17 out
/usr/local/bin/gpio export 18 out
/usr/local/bin/gpio -g write 17 1
/usr/local/bin/gpio -g write 18 1

***We need to add custom actions in Octoprint to turn the relays on and off via GPIO
***Add this to the System->Actions area of config.yaml
***Edit it by SSH to pi and type: sudo nano ~/.octoprint/config.yaml
***CTRL-V to scroll down until you see the actions
***Type the text below to add the new actions, then CTRL-X to exit and save when exiting