I’ve got a RasPi 4 (4GB version). I never really put a whole lot of effort into it and just switch between SD cards as necessary.

Obviously, this is not a great solution. I was going to buy a Pi Zero 2 W for the OctoPrint so I could keep both services running simultaneously. But before I do that, I thought it would be cool if I could somehow put both services on my current device.

I’ve seen around this sub that people are running multiple services alongside Plex, but there’s not much talk about OctoPrint.

  • @AzelphurBEnglish
    1•8 months ago

    Gonna go against the grain here and say no.

    Octoprint needs to stream commands in real time to your printer, I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that putting too much load on the pi results in print quality problems.

    There’s also the reliability factor, I have a decently specced home server (Ryzen 7600, 32GB RAM) and I don’t run octoprint on it, because I don’t want stuff I’m doing on my home server to interrupt and kill my 36 hour print lol

    Also, Pi kinda sucks as a media server, how you gonna connect storage to it, USB drives? If so that’ll burn even more CPU time.