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I followed the tutorial at https://community.octoprint.org/t/setting-up-octoprint-on-a-raspberry-pi-running-raspberry-pi-os-debian/2337
some minor adjustments were made to get it running on the HP mini

this tutorial was tested on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Server and 24.04.2 LTS Server

Setup main environment

cd ~
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-venv git libyaml-dev build-essential libffi-dev libssl-dev
mkdir OctoPrint && cd OctoPrint
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Setup octoprint

pip install --upgrade pip wheel
pip install octoprint

Setup serial access

sudo usermod -a -G tty [username]
sudo usermod -a -G dialout [username]

logout

Log back in and start the octoprint server
OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint serve

you should be able to now visit
http://[ip address]:5000

you can press ctrl+c to end the octoprint server

Create a file /etc/systemd/system/octoprint.service and put this into it:

[Unit]
Description=The snappy web interface for your 3D printer
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Environment="LC_ALL=C.UTF-8"
Environment="LANG=C.UTF-8"
Type=exec
User=[username]
ExecStart=/home/[username]/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint serve

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

enable the service to auto boot

sudo systemctl enable octoprint.service

start the service

sudo service octoprint {start|stop|restart}

setup webcam functionality

cd ~
sudo apt install subversion libjpeg8-dev imagemagick ffmpeg libv4l-dev cmake
git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer.git
cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
make

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so -y" -o "./output_http.so"

In OctoPrint
Stream URL: http://[ip address]/webcam/?action=stream
Snapshot URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/?action=snapshot

Restart OctoPrint: sudo service octoprint restart
Restart system: sudo shutdown -r now
Shutdown system: sudo shutdown -h now

Under Settings > Features > Webcam & Timelaps
Path to FFMPEG: /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Webcam Automatic Start

cd ~
mkdir scripts && cd scripts

Create a new file at webcamDaemon

#!/bin/bash

MJPGSTREAMER_HOME=/home/[username]/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental
MJPGSTREAMER_INPUT_USB="input_uvc.so"
MJPGSTREAMER_INPUT_RASPICAM="input_raspicam.so"

# init configuration
camera="auto"
camera_usb_options="-r 640x480 -f 10"
camera_raspi_options="-fps 10"

if [ -e "/boot/octopi.txt" ]; then
    source "/boot/octopi.txt"
fi

# runs MJPG Streamer, using the provided input plugin + configuration
function runMjpgStreamer {
    input=$1
    pushd $MJPGSTREAMER_HOME
    echo Running ./mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w ./www" -i "$input"
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w ./www" -i "$input"
    popd
}

# starts up the RasPiCam
function startRaspi {
    logger "Starting Raspberry Pi camera"
    runMjpgStreamer "$MJPGSTREAMER_INPUT_RASPICAM $camera_raspi_options"
}

# starts up the USB webcam
function startUsb {
    logger "Starting USB webcam"
    runMjpgStreamer "$MJPGSTREAMER_INPUT_USB $camera_usb_options"
}

# we need this to prevent the later calls to vcgencmd from blocking
# I have no idea why, but that's how it is...
vcgencmd version

# echo configuration
echo camera: $camera
echo usb options: $camera_usb_options
echo raspi options: $camera_raspi_options

# keep mjpg streamer running if some camera is attached
while true; do
    if [ -e "/dev/video0" ] && { [ "$camera" = "auto" ] || [ "$camera" = "usb" ] ; }; then
        startUsb
    elif [ "`vcgencmd get_camera`" = "supported=1 detected=1" ] && { [ "$camera" = "auto" ] || [ "$camera" = "raspi" ] ; }; then
        startRaspi
    fi

    sleep 120
done

Make sure the file is executable:

chmod +x webcamDaemon

And then create another new file at /etc/systemd/system/

webcamd.service (sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/webcamd.service
[Unit]
Description=Camera streamer for OctoPrint
After=network-online.target OctoPrint.service
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=[username]
ExecStart=/home/[username]/scripts/webcamDaemon

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Make sure your user has permission to access video (this is the part that is missing from the pi tutorial)

sudo usermod -aG video [username]

Refresh the daemon files

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Set webcamd to start on boot

sudo systemctl enable webcamd

Start webcamd

sudo systemctl start webcamd

Make it so user has premission to shut down and restart server from octoprint
Create a file /etc/sudoers.d/octoprint-shutdown (as root) with the following contents:

[username] ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

Create another file /etc/sudoers.d/octoprint-service (as root) with the following contents:

[username] ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/service

Summary
I am running a web server so I did not include the part of the tutorial to change the web port from 5000 to 80
I also have not gotten it to be able to start and stop the web stream. It is complaining that it can’t read the user password