AstroPrint & Raspberry Pi 3 [SOLVED]

AstroBox Troubleshooting
#21

Hi Daniel, thanks for the build. I am running into some problems connecting the Astrobox to the internet. I have the Pi connected to the internet using an ethernet cable, but after installing the .img on the Pi and going through the setup I am unable through connect to my Astroprint.com account. When I skip that step I am getting the ‘No internet connection’ icon in the top bar. When I try to connect to my Astroprint.com account I also get the message ‘Your device is not connected to Astroprint.com’

I know that the Pi has an internet connection because I am able to pull all the install files needed for a raspbian boot to desktop.

Is this an issue of the latest release candidate?

#22

Hello AstroPrint Team,

I tried it and it worked first time - without a camera plugged in. I had my WiFi dongle plugged into the Pi3 USB from the beginning so can’t comment on the on-board WiFi functioning with the software.

I then turned it off to put the camera in, then restarted it. I can’t re-connect to the Astrobox WiFi. My phone (HTC One M8) says there’s a connection failure after hanging on “Obtaining IP Address” for a minute or so.

I’ve now turned it off, removed the camera, and restarted the Pi. Same problem. Can’t obtain IP address.

So now I’ve figured out where I’ve been stupid, and instead of delete this message before I post it, I’ll hopefully help someone Googling the issue.

Once setup it seems Astrobox doesn’t let you access its WiFi hotspot. What I then did was find out an alternative way to access it. This is through my chrome browser. I found the Astrobox IP address using Advanced IP Scanner.

And also, don’t do what I did and just power off the Pi from the wall, there’s a shut down button on the software.

So in a roundabout way this is just info only to the developers haha! Sorry!!

#23

A little update. Perhaps I was a little premature in my previous post. I can’t get the Pi camera to work. It’s this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N9YWI1I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Other Pi 3 users seem to have made it work. Is it a software thing?

#24

Are you planning on supporting the on board wifi soon? I don’t want to have to purchase a wifi adapter to then waste that money when you release a version that supports on board wifi.

#25

We only support USB cameras

#26

The onboard WiFi is already supported but unfortunately it doesn’t have the ability to create a hotspot and connect to an external WiFi network at the same time so we need the extra dongle for the hotspot functionality. Again, the regular connection to an existing WiFi network is already using the internal WiFi.

This is going to be the case for a while. The changes to the software and UI to support a single WiFi interface are going to take some time.

#27

Hi Daniel,

Do you have any idea why I can’t log in into my Astroprint.com account from the Astrobox?

#29

Yes. The new Jessie network manager sets up your ethernet with a fixed IP even though it probably gets it from the DHCP server. In the AstroBox layer is a manually set connection (?!). We expect our connections to be DHCP so it’s mistakenly thinking that the device is not connected.

I’m working on that now

#30

Great! Looking forward to the update!

#31

I updated the link above with the new RC. @Quincy_Rossieau let me know if that fixes your problem

#32

Thanks! Will try it when I get home tonight

#33

Will also try later tonight.

#34

Hi Daniel, are you looking at supporting the standard pi camera?

#35

We support cameras via the V4L2 camera driver system which includes most USB cameras. The raspicam did announce support for V4L2 but you might have to configure it.

We currently don’t have plans to work on this but if anybody finds out how to have he raspicam accessed via the V4L2 system, we can support it.

#36

Look what we just got at the AstroPrint office guys. :smile:

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#37

I have just updated the Release Candidate again with some minor fixes. See above in the original post

#38

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the update! The Raspberry Pi 3 is now connected to my Astroprint account.

I haven’t been able to connect the Astrobox to my printer, but I will do that this weekend.

Keep up the good work!

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#39

Seems to be working so far, though I can not get the camera working. I have a Logitech c920. have restarted it several times, connect, disconnect and still stuck on loading connected devices :confused:

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#41

Two things:

  1. Taking H.264 encoded video from the C920 camera does not work yet and has been removed in the latest RC. Are you using the latest one (RC10)?

  2. The browser you use to watch the video and the video format configured for the AstroBox does matter. Please read this: https://astroprint.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/209139946-Browser-support-for-Live-Streaming

#42

Hi Daniel,

Is there any way to grab the video stream to stream to other interfaces? I currently have 8x different octoprint streams showing on one dashboard by just embedding the URL of each one (http://IPaddress:8080/?action=stream). I love the feature set of astroprint but it is that one feature that is preventing me from moving over as with multiple printers it is a pain to check each one individually.

Thanks!