Should I give up on OctoPi?

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Should I give up on OctoPi? Most recent stable version on this site is from 1/31/2015 http://mirror.tsone.net.uk/octopi/ . After installing it Octopi won’t connect to the printer and the kernal keeps crashing on me. @OctoPrint @foosel indicated I should try with current release 1.1.2. When does OctoPi get updated? Any advice would be great. Thanks
http://mirror.tsone.net.uk/octopi

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There is the nightly builds. @Guy_Sheffer ​​ runs octopi. But you could install octopi and update octoprint.

Octopi is build engine. There is no reason for guy to update it.

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Honestly, no - you should learn how to build octopi from source…on a raspbian image. It’s super easy if you just follow the instructions on the wiki. If the kernel is crashing on you, something is likely wrong in hardware - the linux kernel is quite incredibly stable. Honestly OctoPi, recently has been nearly as simple as installing git, doing a git-clone, and then doing a python setup.py install

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Octopi was completely plug and play. Install Octopi, connect printer, power on… What kind of printer are you using?

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@Tim_Odell That mirror is outdated, please refer to the latest mirror is available here:

Also as @Camerin_hahn mentioned we have now nightly builds. But note they are a little unsatable because we are gearing u with new features. If they case you trouble please use the stable build.

This is also a good time to mention we really need more mirrors! Contributions would be appreciated!

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http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Safe_.2F_Easy_way “flashing the sd”
Why all the tools if copy and paste will give you bootable result? Because it doesn’t!

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http://mariolurig.com/3d-printing/setup-octopi-octoprint-on-raspberry-pi/

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I had good results of octoprint nightly on raspbian. Don’t try to slice on it tho, the pi is just too little.

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@Guy_Sheffer I do have a names-cheap account I could mirror on, any info on how to set it up?

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@Ross_Bagley , good to know. I am on a model a right now. I still trigger slicing through octoprint but it makes a service call to another machine that does the heavy lifting.

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@Camerin_hahn ​ If you give me an ftp account I can set it up

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@ThantiK I am hoping it is just my SD card causing the crashes.

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@Guy_Sheffer The mirror you provided contains the same images and dates. Typically newbies like myself like to stick with the most stable published release rather than the nightly builds. However I can see that is not maintained with current released that match OctoPrint’s current releases. So sadly I am debugging anyway.

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@Tim_Odell It is maintained, by me, I’ve been working with Gina on this daily. There has been a lot of additions and we are in the process of stabilizing the nightly so we can release it in the upcoming weeks. Todays nightly seems pretty good, we even added CueaEngine so you should be able to slice directly from OctoPrint! But we won’t release until we are ready.
Try: http://docstech.net/OctoPiMirror/nightly/2015-06-19_2015-05-05-octopi-wheezy-0.12.0.zip
This should be what you are looking for

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@Guy_Sheffer Thanks for the update. Downloading now.