Raspberry Pi 5 does not support Octoprint

[axiom]

I purchased a Raspberry Pi 5 and discovered that there is no Octoprint available for it yet. Is there an alternative to communicate with the Raspberry pi 5 and the printer?

[PCR]

@axiom repetier server. But why octoprint with rrf

[axiom]

@PCR because I want to do live surveillance with a camera and not just individual images

[jens55]

@axiom, that's like buying everything in the grocery store because you wanted a chocolate bar.
There is the old standby that is MotionEye but I am getting rather disenchanted with it and it's crashes. It is also no longer an active project. I have set up at least one pi (3B) that is serving up a stream directly. I do not recall how I did that but a pi supports direct motion streaming with the pi camera. I am not sure what is available if you are planning to use a USB camera.
Do a web search (try rpi cam) and you will probably find many was to set things up. If you can't find details let me know and I will do a bit of digging on my end.

Edit: I am not sure what exactly the difference is between taking pictures in rapid succession and live streaming. I recall mention about 'pictures' but I have had no problem watching my printer do the printing. I show the printer directly via the DWC webcam functionality.

[axiom]

@jens55 I get advice from a distance... and the advisor can help me better with the settings if he gets clear shots

[jens55]

@axiom, a reasonable camera will give you good quality no matter which software you use. If you pay $2.50 at Aliexpress for a pi camera module, all bets are off.

[droftarts]

@jens55 @axiom I've recently updated the Motion section of the webcam page, particularly the 'Configuration' part. While this is running under DWC, it should be similar working under OctoPrint. I was able to run a second camera stream from a USB webcam, too, though only one can be displayed in DWC at a time.

See https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Reference/DWC_webcam#motion-on-a-raspberry-pi-running-dsf

Ian

[axiom]

@droftarts Thanks for the advice! but unfortunately this solution is not supported for the Raspberry pi5 either... I'm seriously considering whether I should downgrade and get a Raspberry pi3 and save the pi5 until there are more solutions on the market but it's actually unusual that there are for current products have no solutions

[oliof]

@axiom you can install Raspbian bookworm which supports the RPi5 and then use OctoPrint Deploy https://github.com/paukstelis/octoprint_deploy -- I haven't tried this myself (for lack of an RPi5) but it's a suggestion straight from the OctoPrint community forum.