OctoPi 1.1.0 RC2 Status

[guysoft]

Second release candidate for OctoPi 1.1.0

There are both 32bit and 64bit images available for Raspberry Pi

There is also a new beta release for Le Potato AML-S905X-CC.
Its beta because I is not as tested as OctoPi for Raspberrypi. And I hope that having it available might let people play with it and tell me what can be done to get the wifi and cameras working correctly.

This image brings support to Raspberry Pi 5. It also drops wpa-supplicant support due to raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback#72
Please try the release candidate so we know it works.

Also a request for help in OctoPi - Our second mirror that was supplied by @wille on discord has been removed, so if anyone wants to help host a second mirror for https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/ that would help a lot so we don't loose OctoPi images.

32bit armf:
Download it at:
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/nightly/2025-01-06_2024-11-19-octopi-bookworm-armhf-lite-1.1.0.zip

Md5: 64c2d6c5d0eb82d25007511395866901.

64bit arm64/aarch64:
Download it at:
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/nightly-arm64/2025-01-06_2024-11-19-octopi-bookworm-arm64-lite-1.1.0.zip

Md5: 414fd01b4727bd387a4eb92e306bcf53.

Let Potato AML-S905X-CC (based on debian):
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/debian_lepotato/nightly/2025-01-06_debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc-1.1.0.zip
Md5: 3f2841fb39140e160f6cd4fce89137e3

Changes in the image

• Raspberry Pi 5 support Debian 12 Bookworm / Raspberry Pi 5 support #823
• Beta support for Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
• Images uses Debian bookworm
• Due to bookworkm /boot/config.txt has moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt See The file /boot/config.txt has moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt CustomPiOS#220
• Support changing default user name on rpi-imager
  • Move octoprint python virtualenv to /opt/custompios/oprint and add a symlink e62bada
• Dropped support for wpa supplicant due to wpa_supplicant autoconfigure removed in bookworm but not replaced with other mechanism raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback#72
  Please try the release candidate so we know it works.
• New NetworkManager headless support added, its pretty basic for now since it is expected most people configure the wifi via rpi-imager. There is a new wifi.nmconnection file in the /boot/firmware folder that lets you configure wifi headless. Its more limited at the moment than the wpa supplicant version
• Remove camera ID 046d:0825 Fixes Camera model 046d:0825 is known to not work with -f parameter, stripping it out #759

Changes from RC1:

• Fixed issue with webcam not working OctoPi 1.1.0 RC1 Status #837 (comment)
• Fixed wifi blocking guysoft/CustomPiOS@e553cad
• Network check has been fixed Adding missing if closing statement #840 (Thanks @david-forster10)

[bengalih]

How is the network check working in the RC?
Maybe I'm not looking at the right code base, but it appears enable_network_monitor is still looking for wpa_supplicant configuration?
I would like to know how the RC attempts to recover via Network Manager when connectivity is lost.

[guysoft]

@bengalih yes you are right, this needs to be updated:

OctoPi/src/modules/octopi/filesystem/root/usr/local/bin/networkcheck

Line 10 in 252e4f1

if [ $enable_network_monitor == 1 ] && [ "$destination_host" != "" ]; then

If anyone has time to implement it would greatly help. Otherwise I might just remove it.

[guysoft]

@hawkeyexp if you want to update this to work with NetworkManager. That would help, otherwise I might only ship it for wpa supplicant.

[b-morgan]

I downloaded 2025-01-06_2024-11-19-octopi-bookworm-arm64-lite-1.1.0.zip and installed it on an RPi 3B. When I login with SSH I get the "welcome" text including "This image comes without a desktop environment...". However, the ".../install-desktop" script isn't there. Obviously, there are two potential fixes... fix the "welcome" text or add a working script.

[guysoft]

@b-morgan The script path has moved to:
/opt/octopi/scripts/install-desktop

Will update the message, not sure I'll make an RC3 for that. will consider, perhaps for that and removing enable_network_monitor

[foosel]

Sorry for taking so long with feedback here, the OctoPrint RC has kept me busy.

I've now shot both the 32bit and the 64bit image against the testrig + e2e tests here, and both runs came away green:

• 32bit test
• 64bit test

Those were run against a Pi3 with a picam (PiC in my testrig). WiFi configuration was done using the same approach as the imager uses, firstrun.sh matching the sources of the imager.

So, from my end I can confirm for both images that they:

• boot
• get on wifi
• have a running OctoPrint 1.10.3
• have a running Webcam server (picam)
• have OctoPrint's E2E test suite pass against them, so logging in, out, settings, printer connection against the virtual printer, upload of files all work

I also did some quick manual testing against the 64bit image (I'm assuming the 32bit one behaves identical):

• plugin install works
• restarting the server works
• rebooting the server works
• printing against the virtual printer works
• updating to OctoPrint 1.11.0rc2 works (and no healthcheck triggered)
• system info shows no issues
• ~/oprint/bin/python still works (as a fallback via a symlink)

The wrong path for the install-desktop script was already mentioned.

So from my side with my testing options, things are looking good! 👍

[thinkjk]

@foosel @guysoft I'm testing with an rpi5 and a pi cam module 3 via MIPI and I don't know how to get the camera working. Are there any logs that I can provide you to help troubleshoot? I'm happy to help anyway I can :)

I can see the camera in libcamera-hello but I can't get it to work in octoprint. FWIW I had to camera enable auto-detect in /boot/firmware/config.txt for the camera to show up. Edit: PR to fix this: guysoft/CustomPiOS#246

I've also tested in RC1. I don't have to enable camera auto-detect but the camera still does not work for me.

Available cameras

0 : imx708 [4608x2592 10-bit RGGB] (/base/axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/imx708@1a)
Modes: 'SRGGB10_CSI2P' : 1536x864 [120.13 fps - (768, 432)/3072x1728 crop]
2304x1296 [56.03 fps - (0, 0)/4608x2592 crop]
4608x2592 [14.35 fps - (0, 0)/4608x2592 crop]

[thinkjk]

@guysoft I've been trying everything I can think of, but can't get the camera working in octoprint.

[guysoft]

@thinkjk Perhaps this change needs to be reverted for v3
#837 (comment)
Its really hard to know because I found no docs on what this does.

tl;dr
I switch in /boot/firmware/config.txt
from camera_auto_detect=1 to camera_auto_detect=0

So you can try switching in /boot/firmware/config.txt
back to camera_auto_detect=1 and see if that helps?

[cp2004]

This is the switch between the new (current) libcamera-based webcam system and the legacy webcam system. Mjpg streamer only works with the legacy system.

For a V3 camera you need the new libcamera system, so it won't work if you have legacy enabled. Unless I've missed a change, OctoPi doesn't have support for libcamera.

When you see supported=1 detected=1 you have legacy stack. If you see libcamera interfaces=1, you're using new stack.