This just happened for a second time… I’m running octoprint on a windows desktop computer that lives next to the printer (no raspberry pi for me yet).

Twice now, it has disconnected mid-print. The printer and PC are both online and physically connected. Disconnecting and reconnecting in octoprint works, and I have been manually checking the last gcode sent successfully in the terminal and copying the remaining code out of the file from there and printing that - it works but if it has been disconnected for a while before I notice, the spot where the extruder was sitting gets a little melty and there are some artifacts in the print.

Is there any octoprint plug in that can automate this process so I don’t have to manually edit the gcode? Or any tips on preventing disconnects?

I’m pretty new to this whole world of 3d printing and even newer to octoprint so I may be missing something obvious.

Thanks!

  • Jtskywalker@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t think about interference. It is pretty close to the bed heating cable and the extruder cable. Probably touching those at points. I will probably stick with the SD card until I can get a Pi and use a much shorter cable. I just lost a print due to this happening 3 times and at this point I don’t want to risk it again right away