Thankfully, though, we can pretty easily work around the broken charge feature on the Poco F2 Pro, so let’s do that real quick. This one simply doesn’t charge anymore, but it’s otherwise technically fine, but the Xiaomi 9T I had before that one day just turned its screen off and never turned it back on so that one’s done. Unfortunately, it was the second Xiaomi phone that just randomly died on me. Instead, I’m going to be using a Xiaomi Poco F2 I had previously, it’s got an 8-core processor clocking up to almost 3GHz, as well as 8 GB of RAM, so it’s easily faster than any Raspberry Pi. So for today’s test, I’m not going to use my daily Pixel 5, because I don’t want that to be tied to a printer for hours at a time. So today we’re going to try out Octo4a, which lets you run a full OctoPrint setup including plugin support and everything on pretty much any Android phone and the only thing you need is a USB adapter like this one for five bucks. And that’s also going to give you a way of controlling OctoPrint without pulling out an additional device. What if you could run OctoPrint on your old Android phone that you’ve got sitting around anyway? Or, in fact, you can easily buy a brand-new phone or tablet for what you’d be paying for a single Raspberry Pi and that is going to already come with a power brick, USB cable, and a much better camera built-in than what you’re going to get with any webcam. So if you want to run OctoPrint and still need a quality power supply and USB cable, a webcam, and SD card, you could end up spending close to 150 bucks.īut what if I told you there is a cheaper way.
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