OctoPi 1.1.0 RC1 Status

[guysoft]

First release candidate for OctoPi 1.1.0

There are both 32bit and 64bit images available for Raspberry Pi

There is also a new beta release for Le Potato AML-S905X-CC.
Its beta because I is not as tested as OctoPi for Raspberrypi. And I hope that having it available might let people play with it and tell me what can be done to get the wifi and cameras working correctly.

This image brings support to Raspberry Pi 5. It also drops wpa-supplicant support due to raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback#72
Please try the release candidate so we know it works.

32bit armf:
Download it at:
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/nightly/2024-11-22_2024-11-19-octopi-bookworm-armhf-lite-1.1.0.zip

Md5: 173a6b93942e83c960d84d70f6c6f778.

64bit arm64/aarch64:
Download it at:
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/nightly-arm64/2024-11-22_2024-11-19-octopi-bookworm-arm64-lite-1.1.0.zip

Md5: 5344de5850bc402da5e741e96dcf3eef.

Let Potato AML-S905X-CC (based on debian):
https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/OctoPi/debian_lepotato/nightly/2024-11-22_debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc-1.1.0.zip
Md5: 5c892cb5b187ad79612f39597c214054

Changes in the image

• Raspberry Pi 5 support Debian 12 Bookworm / Raspberry Pi 5 support #823
• Beta support for Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
• Images uses Debian bookworm
• Due to bookworkm /boot/config.txt has moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt See The file /boot/config.txt has moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt CustomPiOS#220
• Support changing default user name on rpi-imager
  • Move octoprint python virtualenv to /opt/custompios/oprint and add a symlink e62bada
• Dropped support for wpa supplicant due to wpa_supplicant autoconfigure removed in bookworm but not replaced with other mechanism raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback#72
  Please try the release candidate so we know it works.
• New NetworkManager headless support added, its pretty basic for now since it is expected most people configure the wifi via rpi-imager. There is a new wifi.nmconnection file in the /boot/firmware folder that lets you configure wifi headless. Its more limited at the moment than the wpa supplicant version
• Remove camera ID 046d:0825 Fixes Camera model 046d:0825 is known to not work with -f parameter, stripping it out #759

[foosel]

Did some initial testing and here's what I found:

• Image size is now 3.7GB. That's a huge increase compared to the 2.9GB of 1.0.0 and 2.5GB of 0.18. Is there any reason for that? Has the lite image grown that much? Is there any way this can be shrinked back again a bit?
  • 64bit image is even bigger at 4.1 GB
• Tested (against the testrig, using the RPi imager approach for customization of wifi & host):
  • 32bit on Pi3 w/ USB webcam: booted, setup wizard completed, camera works
  • 64bit on Pi3 w/ USB webcam: booted, setup wizard completed, camera works
  • 32bit on Pi3 w/ RPi cam (not v3): booted, setup wizard completed, camera DOESN'T work, vcgencmd get_camera says it's not detected
  • 64bit on Pi3 w/ RPi cam (not v3): booted, setup wizard completed, camera DOESN'T work, vcgencmd get_camera says it's not detected
  • 64bit on Pi5 w/o cam: booted, setup wizard completed, no camera to test
• Just to make sure that the issue with the RPi camera wasn't caused by my hardware suddenly dying I also tested against an OctoPi-UpToDate build (and thus OctoPi 1.0.0), and here it still works just fine, and vcgencmd get_camera also reports the camera as detected.

So we do have an issue here, as webcamd no longer seems to work now even with the old RPi Cams that still worked fine under bullseye/1.0.0. I'd consider that a blocker. Alas, the new camera stack is currently also not an option yet, as there's a quite problematic bug in the underlying webcam server there as well, and I've not been able to get feedback from the maintainer on it and am currently starting to lean towards switching the server once more due to this issue 😕

[guysoft]

I found that the wifi.nmconnection seems to have radio disabled at boot for 5ghz and needs to fix that somehow