
It's almost always a good idea to install the heat sink on SBCs so that they won't overheat easily. That's it! You have successfully connected to OctoPrint! Useful tips (not required by highly recommended) Install the heat sink
Click Control on the upper tab to see your webcam view. Click Connect on the left to connect your 3D printer to your Orange Pi Zero 2. Click Finish, and you will be sent to the OctoPrint User interface. These settings won't affect your prints, but they help enhance the overall user experience. Under Defauilt Printer Profile, enter the origin location (usually lower left), whether or not it has a heated bed, and the size of your printers build volume. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the setup wizard such as creating an account. You will be greeted with the OctoPrint Setup Wizard. Open an internet browser and enter the IP address you just found into the URL bar. Grab a coffee, and get the rest of the kit setup while the software is installed on the SD card. The file is large, so it may take a while (up to 40 minutes but likely less) for the software to be installed on the SD card. USB cable to connect your 3D printer to the Orange Pi (comes with most printers). A high quality SD card (class 10 or better) with at least 8GB of storage. If you are located in North America, you can also buy an Orange Pi kit from us, which will come with 1-year Obico Pro plan as well as warranty and technical support from the Obico team. You can source the board from Orange Pi's official website yourself. This makes it just as easy to run OctoPrint on an Orange Pi as it's on a Raspberry Pi. The Obico team has decided to take stab at this problem by figuring all it takes to build an image that you can just download and flash to an SD card to get OctoPrint up and running. However, many steps and familiarity with Linux commands were required to run OctoPrint on an Orange Pi.
Orange Pi has become a popular choice to run OctoPrint, especially nowadays it's harder to buy a Raspberry Pi at a reasonable price than to make your in-laws happy.
Please come to our discord server in case you run into any issues with it. The Orange Pi for OctoPrint SD card images are built and maintained by the Obico team, and supported by the Obico community.