USB fires octoprint to the rescue.... hopefully

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What is the problem?

I upgraded my ender 5 plus to a SKR 1.4 Turbo board to quieten it down, that worked a treat then my usb cable overheated for some reason and blew that cable and killed my computer. Got a new computer and a new board but the usb is still warming up and smelling burnt. I got scared so decided to use a octoprint instead. now im having major issues with setting this up. Im a complete noob when it comes to this, i want to bypass the usb altogether. ive seen lots of posts about it but its all going over my head. i was just hoping someone could help me to use a 3 wire series instead.

What did you already try to solve it?

Tried using Simple 3 wire serial connection from PI3 to SKR V1.3 board but like i said it kinda went over my head.

Have you tried running in safe mode?

No idea how

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Additional information about your setup

SKR 1.4 TURBO, Using a raspberry pi 4, 1.5.3. Ender 5 Plus

Basically i want to run Octoprint on my SKR 1.4 Turbo without having to use usb. please help write a step by step instruction thanks

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Wow, scary. Very surprised that "USB cable melting" generates lots on google. BTW did the incident damage the SKR board as well? I'm guessing it's a back powering issue ie the printer is drawing power from the PC via the USB cable. A lot of people put insulating tape on the 5v line on the USB plug. There's a thread here

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Once I had a very cheap USB cable where connections were all inverse...

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I tried doing the 5v tape thing but it just stopped sending anything across. I'll try a another new cable to see if that works

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You shouldn't need that on that board at all - use this jumper to switch between usb power and psu power for the board

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