Link to Github Repository for the advanced user.

Octoprint is a great little piece of software for managing your prints. It is especially awesome if you have a webcam set up to do timelapses and watch your prints.

Most people control this with OctoPi, but I wanted to do it with Docker on my ubuntu machine. I’m going to assume you already have docker and docker-compose installed, and know how to use command-line utilities like git .

git clone https://github.com/hjhart/octoprint_plus_mjpg_streamer_docker cd octoprint_plus_mjpg_streamer_docker

Now, make sure your printer is located at /dev/ttyUSB0 and your webcam is located at /dev/video0 . If they’re not you’ll need to modify the docker-compose.yml file.

If you’re all set up, then run:

docker-compose up

If your devices aren’t set up properly you’ll see an error message like this:

ERROR: for octoprintplusmjpgstreamerdocker_mjpg_streamer_1 Cannot start service mjpg_streamer: linux runtime spec devices: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/video0": lstat /dev/video0: no such file or directory ERROR: for octoprint Cannot start service octoprint: linux runtime spec devices: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/ttyUSB0": lstat /dev/ttyUSB0: no such file or directory

If things appear to be running happily, navigate to 127.0.0.1:5000 (replace 127.0.0.1 with $DOCKER_HOST). Octoprint and your webcam should be all set up, and you can print with timelapses already set up.

This might be a little slow to build because I haven’t pushed any images to docker-hub yet. If anyone wants them, I can do so.

If you have any issues or questions, create an issue on github. Happy printing!