OctoPiPanel creates a simple interface on a small screen to control OctoPrint.
OctoPiPanel requires Pygame to be installed. Pygame can be downloaded from http://pygame.org.
OctoPiPanel is developed by Jonas Lorander (jonas@haksberg.net).

https://github.com/jonaslorander/OctoPiPanel

This is a (slow) work in progress.

Simplified BSD-2 License:

Copyright 2014 Jonas Lorander. All rights reserved.

• OctoPrint >= version 1.1.0 running on a Raspberry Pi on Raspbian
• Adafruit PiTFT (http://adafru.it/1601)
• Python 2.7 (should already be installed)
• PyGame (should already be installed)
• requests Python module

OctoPiPanel can be run on Windows as well to ease development.

Follow the DIY Installer Script setup at Adafruit to set up the Pi TFT correctly. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/easy-install

The setup is pretty basic. You'll be needing Python 2.7 which should be installed by default, Git, and pip.

cd ~
sudo apt-get install python-pip git
git clone https://github.com/jonaslorander/OctoPiPanel.git
cd OctoPiPanel
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

• You need to activate the REST API in you OctoPrint settings and get your API-key with Octoprint Versions older then 1.1.1, otherwise you will be fine.
• Put the URL to you OctoPrint installation in the baseurl-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file. For instance http://localhost:5000 or http://192.168.0.111:5000.
• Put your API-key in the apikey-property in the OctoPiPanel.cfg file.

Start OctoPiPanel by browsing to the folder of the Python-file and execute
sudo python ./OctoPiPanel.py &
In a screen session (auto start scripts will be coming later). Yes, sudo must be used for the time being.

Make OctoPiPanel-py executable and then copy the script files to their respective folders and make the init script executable:

chmod +x OctoPiPanel.py
sudo cp scripts/octopipanel.init /etc/init.d/octopipanel
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/octopipanel
sudo cp scripts/octopipanel.default /etc/default/octopipanel

Then add the script to autostart using sudo update-rc.d octopipanel defaults.

This will also allow you to start/stop/restart the OctoPiPanel daemon via

sudo service octopipanel {start|stop|restart}

PygButton courtesy of Al Sweigart (al@inventwithpython.com)