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PrusaLink multi instance

In this mode, an instance of PrusaLink is created for each new printer detected on any of the USB ports of the host system, allowing the user to connect multiple printers using a single Raspberry Pi.

Setup

The multi instance image requires the same setup as the regular one, but there are some differences

  1. The multi-instance manager does not connect to printers on the GPIO pins as the device udev auto-detection in Linux does not work on those
  2. Cameras automatically connect to the first instance only. If you wish to use for example a camera for each printer, you'll need to manually copy over relevant configuration
  3. In this image, the manager of these PrusaLink instances is run as root. However web interface of the instance manager is run under the user account.

Cameras

The temporary process of connecting multiple cameras is not user friendly and requires manual work. This will change in the future. The process is as follows:

  1. Connect all cameras you wish to use and let them connect to the first instance
  2. Open the web interface of the first instance and under cameras, save every camera manually. This will create a configuration section for each camera in prusa_printer_settings.ini of the first instance
  3. Using ssh, navigate to /etc/prusalink/prusalink1.ini and open it
  4. Turn off the camera auto-detection in the first instance by adding this section into the file 
    [cameras]
auto_detect = False
  5. Navigate to /home/<username>/PrusaLink1 and open prusa_printer_settings.ini
  6. Move the section corresponding to each camera over to the instance in which you wish to use it. The camera sections have hashes as names, the order of which is noted in the section [camera_order]
  7. Move the camera order entry for each camera as well. A camera order section with a single camera in it looks like this 
    [camera_order]
1 = asdfghjkl
  8. After a reboot, the cameras should be connected to the correct instances

Running the manager

To run PrusaLink in the multi-instance mode run prusalink-manager start as root. There are other options allowing you to specify which user to run the instances and web under. The default is UID = 1000

Here's the help output of prusalink-manager

Multi-instance suite for PrusaLink

positional arguments:
  {start,stop,clean,rescan}
                        Available commands
    start               Start the instance managing daemon (needs root
                        privileges)
    stop                Stop any manager daemon running (needs root
                        privileges)
    clean               Danger! cleans all PrusaLink multi-instance
                        configuration
    rescan              Notify the daemon a printer has been connected

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --info            include log messages up to the INFO level
  -d, --debug           include log messages up to the INFO level
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Which users to use for running and storing everything
  -p PREPEND_EXECUTABLES_WITH, --prepend-executables-with PREPEND_EXECUTABLES_WITH
                        Environment variables and path to the executables
                        directory