Hi All,

So it looks like I'm swaying toward the Duet 3 Mini 5 as few have commented on. This way I can also upgrade ‘if and when’ needed.

It looks like I'll have to wait a few weeks before any more Duet 3 Mini 5's are ready, No Pressure David. LOL

I am most grateful for everyone's input and advice.

No doubt I'll be back again with yet more questions, but for now I think I have a bit of reading to do, to familiarise myself better with the Duet system.

Also any more comments and / or suggestions are very welcome.

Thank you,

Dizzwold.

What's supporting the bulge of the front panel where the paneldue is? I can see there are 4 screw holes here. 2 on the front, and 2 on the top. Have you printed some 40mm supports or used additional 2020 extrusion.

Also, do you have anything covering the back of the front panel?

Do you have any additional photos.

HI Guys,

Does anyone have a link to the files for the front panel?

I think it just looks amazing.

Dizzwold.

Hi Guys,

A little off subject.

What's the preferred method of transferring files from a Mac to the RPi ?

I'd prefer to not have to learn lots of terminal commands, so your advice is appreciated.

Dizzwold.

Sorry, I didn't say, the fan cooler is a shield with a header;
http://www.yahboom.net/study/RGB_Cooling_HAT

Any way;

A BIG THANK YOU, for your time, patience, input and getting my up and running, well walking at-least.

I'm very grateful.

Thank you.

Dizzwold.

Hi Phaedrux,

That seems to have fixed the issue.

Found my router added my password, now it's off looking for an update (although it's been doing that for 15 mins).

Am I correct in saying that once it's all finished with updates, I then remove the SD Card?

If an SD Card is inserted, will that then overwrite whatever's on the RPi, as I've purchased a RPi cooler/fan that needs some software.

Do I just add this fan software to the SD Card along with the Duet files?

Should I erase the SD Card first, or will BalenaEtcher take of that?

Hi Phaedrux,

Do you mean remove my router details from wpa_supplicant.conf ?

I also enabled SSH and checked in terminal (sudo nano wpa-------) and my ssid and password are there and correct.

Hi guys & Phaedrux,

Okay. Wow. What a difference having a display makes !!!

So, It loads up with the Duet software/firmware, and on top of that I have the "Welcome To Raspberry Pi" settings window/box.

When I get to "Select WiFi Network", no networks are found, it's just searching and finding nothing? Please see the photo.

The RPi and Duet are next to my computer (that's working on WiFi), and the router is in the room directly below (separated by about 5' of air, one sheet of plaster board and wood floor).

So is the RPi broken, it should pick-up something shouldn't it?

At-least were not guessing and working blind any more.

Again guys, thank you for your time and patience. Very grateful.

Hi Phaedrux,

Thank you for your persistence. I am very grateful.

I've got some HDMI adaptors coming tomorrow, all being well, so then I can plug it in to a spare TV.
I put the full version on the card I made. DuetPi, not the lite version.
When I said "this webpage", that's this web page that were chatting on now;
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/21223/considering-duet3-new-to-rpi/38?_=1612366876980
The little box that appeared had some timeout on it, so it wasn't on the screen for long. I only caught it in the corner of my eye before it disappeared.
I had a switched power cable come today, thinking it could have been a power issue, but it doesn't seem to be that.

I guess we'll have to wait till tomorrow for the HDMI leads to arrive.

Thank you again.

HI guys,

Sorry David, I went for the Duet 3 6HC.

Phaedrux, re Which image did I install;

I just edited the wpa-supplicant.conf file with my ssid and password for my router then inserted the card.
Should I have had only some of the above on the card to install, or all of it as I have done?

I've also made my own SD Card image, the same as the above. This seems to work to some degree. The RPi isn't getting anyway near as hot as it was. after first powering the RPi via the 26-40way ribbon cable, I now get just a slow flashing Green LED. I can now also see two devices on IP Scanner, one of these states 68.77.44.185 baremetal.zare.com (185.44.77.68). I'm guessing that's the RPi, but even with typing in these ip address's into my browser, I still can't get it connected.

One thing that happened this morning when I disconnected the power to the duet/RPi, I got a little box appear in the bottom right of this webpage, stating that it couldn't find my duet?