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Klipper vs Marlin (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I actually have Marlin + Octoprint but found out recently that Klipper exist. I read everywhere that Klipper is better but I don't really get why. I understand that Klipper use raspberry as powerfull calculator instead of the STM32 of the printer, but octoprint is used to send Gcode to Marlin too... So what's the really difference please?

Edit : I don't understand how Klipper or Marlin can give better results when gcode and instructions are generated by Cura

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You’re welcome. There is a lot more than that even. When you start digging through, Klipper allows you so much control. You can even have your printer run shell commands (deactivated by default because it so powerful, it can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing)

You can control RGB LEDs and more. You can also connect many arduino isntesad of just one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can even have your printer run shell commands

I briefly considered using Klipper to make a clock that prints 1 layer per minute, but gave up after realizing it'd be unreadable after the first hour:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First of all, I need to fond out how to control my tasmota switch to turn on/off my printer and my led...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tasmota is natively supported by moonraker

# moonraker.conf

[power Printer]
type: tasmota
address: 192.168.1.124
password: mypassword

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you running Home Assistant? Klipper/Mainsail has an integration for HA that will allow you to control your printer with it. You could use HA to control your Tasmota devices too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I'm not, but i'll found a way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like what I'm looking for Try it tonight