The recommended way to install Fluidd on a Raspberry Pi is to use FluiddPi, a pre-packaged disk image.
To install Fluidd on a Raspberry Pi:
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Download the latest fluiddPi Release
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Unzip the .img file from your download.
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Use BalenaEtcher to write the .img to an 8GB (or larger) microSD card. THIS WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON YOUR CARD.
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If you will be using wifi, edit the file
fluiddpi-wpa-supplicant.txt
with your Wifi information. If you are having trouble seeing this file on the microSD card, try removing it and re-inserting it into your card reader. -
Make sure that your MCU(s) is connected to your pi. If you will be using wired networking, also make sure your ethernet cable is connected.
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Insert the microSD card into your Pi, and power on the Pi.
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Find your Pi on the network, and ssh into it (using PuTTY on Windows or the terminal on MacOS)
The default username is
pi
and the password israspberry
.- If your network supports bonjour, the pi should show up as
fluiddpi.local
- If your network automatically assigns DNS hostnames, it may simply show up as
fluiddpi
- Failing these two options, you may need to check your router's DHCP server, and find out what IP address as been assigned to the device.
- If your network supports bonjour, the pi should show up as
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Connect to your Pi in a web browser: http://fluiddpi.local (or whatever you determined the hostname/IP to be in the previous step)
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When you first connect, fluiddpi will ask you to "provide the moonraker API URL": enter the same host name or IP address once more. (
fluiddpi.local
)
As soon as you have Fluiddpi loaded, it is highly recommended that you make sure all the software is up to date. (At times, the downloaded image file contains fairly out of date software.)
- Access Fluidd through a web browser, using whatever IP or hostname you found above.
(Note, you will see some errors regarding the non-configured state of your printer. These can be ignored… for now) - Click the "Settings" button on the left side of the screen
- Scroll down to the "Software Updates" section
- Click the "check for updates" button
- Click "update" for each component that needs it.