Setting up OctoPrint on a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (Debian)

This works great on the OrangePi as well all you have to do is change pi to orangepi and that worked for me!

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Hello all - I'm fairly new to Raspberry Pi's, Linux, and Python, and was trying to set up OctoPrint when I ran into some issues. Everything was going smoothly up until pip install octoprint.

The download/installation was going swimmingly until it hit Babel (v. 2.12.1):

Collecting Babel<2.13,>=2.12.1 (from octoprint)
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/babel/Babel-2.12.1-py3-none-any.whl (10.1 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.4/10.1 MB 254.5 kB/s eta 0:00:27
ERROR: THESE PACKAGES DO NOT MATCH THE HASHES FROM THE REQUIREMENTS FILE. If you have updated the package versions, please update the hashes. Otherwise, examine the package contents carefully; someone may have tampered with them.
    Babel<2.13,>=2.12.1 from https://www.piwheels.org/simple/babel/Babel-2.12.1-py3-none-any.whl#sha256=7d4b39b8f00d62b71bf643d554db2e99e2845fbdb69da9577dd7cb512e1da053 (from octoprint):
        Expected sha256 7d4b39b8f00d62b71bf643d554db2e99e2845fbdb69da9577dd7cb512e1da053
             Got        99a0e146b77343d833ef44a6b518b4e82be91b9c66ec244c9efd879085f21d56

It seems that the hashes don't match. Is this due to some sort of mismatched version? I can't figure it out. Hoping for a pro to help me out, and in the mean time I'm going to try and persuade ChatGPT to work it out :rofl:

That means something is wrong with the downloaded file.
Could be a transmission error or a failing SD card.
Delete it and try again

pinkrose@raspberrypi:~ $ /etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service
bash: /etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service: Permission denied

I've tried many different variations trying to give myself permission.
I can't get it. I'm the only user. Why can't I get to admin status?

The comment you've quoted is literally just typing in the file path, this will not do anything as it is not an executable command. To edit a file, you'd have to open a file editor such as nano with sudo nano /etc/.... You can't just type the file path in the console and expect it to know what to do with it.

Do you plan to append this tutorial with the installation of the new camera stack? It's a bit of a nightmare to install and I am stuck.

I have installed octoprint on a fresh install of Raspbian bookworm, everything works fine until you want to use the new stack instead of the old school mjpeg. I have installed the camera-streamer plugin, then the camera-streamer.deb but rip-camera still not working. It is extremely frustrating to not find all the needed information in one place.

It will probably be added when it becomes mainline in OctoPi. There's still a few issues with camera-streamer we were seeing (I'm not fully up to date with the status) that meant it has not become the default yet.

You should be able to use the instructions from ayufan/camera-streamer (github.com), using the precompiled deb from there. Instructions would not be "specific" to installing OctoPrint, it would be almost a copy of what's on there (or maybe a link, so this didn't become outdated).

If you're having issues getting it installed, open your own topic with as much detail as you can, so we can try and help you.

Nothing is working, I have lost 2 days trying to get it working with no luck. The instructions are evasive at best or they require dependencies not mentioned anywhere, it is a mess. I followed everything to the T and nothing works.

I am now trying to use Octopi stable from the official Raspberry imager but can't get the wifi nor the HDMI display to work... It's a massive waste of time. I think I will end up going back to the Raspbian and follow the above instruction including the webcam tricks for the rpi-cam.

IMO, it's time to abandon camera-streamer and find something / someone who is more responsive to fixing issues.

This is not the right place for this discussion, but camera-streamer is the easiest way to get an RPi Cam v3 up and running. The β€œnew stack” project got far more complex with removing the hardware encoder on the RPi 5. Find a better project, and propose it in its own topic.

Orange Pi Zero+, Armbian 24.5.1 Jammy Server / CLI . Error:

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for zeroconf
Building wheel for sgmllib3k (setup.py) ... done
Created wheel for sgmllib3k: filename=sgmllib3k-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl size=6066 sha256=e7a97fd0817c15cd581bfd2ca1b64dd2acd299ba41cdd0e9256e308a83a6c1a6
Stored in directory: /home/octo/.cache/pip/wheels/f0/69/93/a47e9d621be168e9e33c7ce60524393c0b92ae83cf6c6e89c5
Successfully built future netifaces psutil sgmllib3k
Failed to build zeroconf
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (zeroconf)

My camera autostart didn't work. I did this:
cd
nano scripts/mjpg-streamer.sh


#!/bin/bash

cd /home/octoprint/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so" -o "./output_http.so"

sudo chmod +x /home/octoprint/scripts/mjpg-streamer.sh

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

You need to place the command to run the script before the exit 0 line:
home/octoprint/scripts/mjpg-streamer.sh

Thank you for the comprehensive walk-through!

Just wondering if it is possible for us to setup the new camera stack on PiOS. Would you be able to provide instructions for doing so?

Thanks again!