Can't Connect to Octopi

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When I go to octopi.local, it says that the site cannot be reached

I made sure everything is plugged in and turned on, I turned the pi off and on again, unplugged it waited for 10 seconds and then plugged back in, but I don't have any technical knowledge about so I'm not sure where to go from there. Because the server is down I cannot get my logs.

I have a raspberry pi 4, a Prusa i3 mk3, and I use chrome.

Sorry if there is information that you might need that is missing. This is the first time I have posted here and I am very new to octoprint and raspberry pis in general.

Thanks for your time!

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What operating system are you using? (not on the Pi)

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What Octopi operating system?

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No, when you are trying to connect to the Pi, you said you're using Chrome. Are you on Windows? Mac? Linux (Ubuntu, Arch, etc.)?

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Oh sorry, dumb question. I'm on mac.

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Two things to try:

  • Open up Safari and see if it works in there.
  • Type http://octopi.local rather than just octopi.local in the address bar (omnibox).
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Neither of those worked. Nothing would load on Safari, and when I put in http://octopi.local, it still didn't find the server.

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Do you have the chance to connect an HDMI monitor or TV to the Pi?
At the end of the startup sequence it should display it's IP address.

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That worked! Thanks so much for helping me out.

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I only access mine by IP, though I give them a static IP (search and you'll see info on that). Here's the octopi.local thing- you can see it only works for specific cases and there are numerous places it can go wrong:

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You don't need Bonjour on Windows. Windows has its own system already for this, but for some reason its not turned on by default. Its called NetBIOS via TCP/IP, you can enable this in your network adapter settings

To check if its Enabled type in your terminal "ipconfig /all"
it will show the following (all your network adapters will show, so check the one your using, in this case I'm using WIFI

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