Howdy Buddies, This is my first version of "LED my printer glow". It's a small (and at the moment a poor) plugin for OctoPrint to control LED strips.
You can check my page on http://www.rapidforge.de/2016/02/led-my-printer-glow/ to see how it works.
I didn't realized the automatic installer for OctoPrint yet (maybe I'm too stupid).
Feel free to comment or, it's better, try to support this nice little application.
UPDATE 03/11/2017 - Currently I'm working on another project. So (for me) it's still on hold!
One problem is that this small addon works just with Raspian Weezy and I don't find the time to fixed that. Sorry for that!
The first and most important thing is a LED strip. I'm currently using a LED strip from the big Swedish home center. But there are a lot of other manufactures who can deliver such a thing. If you got it than you have to hack it and connect it with your pi. Please follow this link for the well explained instruction http://popoklopsi.github.io/RaspberryPi-LedStrip/#/.
ATTENTION! EVERY WORK ON CIRCUITS HAS TO BE DONE BY TRAINED PERSON(S)! I'M (and the following authors are) NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES! DO THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!
Now it's time to prepare your Pi operation system. So you have to install the pigpio daemon from this page http://abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/download.html with these commands:
wget abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
unzip pigpio.zip
cd PIGPIO
make
sudo make installSweet but it won't work right now because this isn't ready. Or you have to run the OctoPrint as root. This little detour will start pigpio as daemon. Type sudo crontab -e and put the following line at the end of this file:
@reboot /usr/local/bin/pigpiod
Now you can clone the plugin into the OctoPrint Plugin folder
cd ~/.octoprint/plugins
git clone https://github.com/calliconfused/OctoPrint-LEDmyprinterglowAfter this the plugin is availible under options and plugin.
That's all and have fun!