OctoPrint-TFT, a touch interface for TFT touch modules based on GTK+3.

Is a X application to be executed directly in the X Server without any windows manager, as frontend of a OctoPrint server in a Raspberry Pi equipped with any TFT Touch module.

Allows you to control your 3D Printer, like you can do with any TFT/LCD panel, but using OctoPrint and a Raspberry Pi.

TouchUI, is an amazing plugin for Octoprint, was created as a responsive design for access to OctoPrint, from low resolution devices, such as smartphones, tablets, etc.

Executing TouchUI under a RPi w/TFT modules, presents two big problems, first isn't optimized to be used with resistive touch screens with low resolutions like 480x320 and second requires a browser to be access, consuming a lot of resources.

This is the main reason because I develop this X application to be executed in my 3d printer.

OctoPrint-TFT is based on Golang, usually this means that is dependency less, but in this cases GTK+3 is used, this means that GTK+3 libraries are required to be installed on the system.

If you are using Raspian or any other Debian based distribution, GTK+3 can be installed using:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3

The compilation and packaging tasks are managed by the Makefile and backed on Docker. Docker is used to avoid install any other dependencies since all the operations are done inside of the container.

If you need to install docker inside Raspbian or any other linux distrubution just run:

curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh

You can read more about this at docker-install

To compile the project, assuming that your already cloned this repository, just execute the build target, this will generate in build folder all the binaries and debian packages:

> make build
> ls -1 build/

If you are using Raspbian you can install any of the .deb generated packages. If not, just use the compiled binary.

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, see LICENSE