![]() ![]() The wireless connection is markedly more stable. You literally edit a config file - less work than futzing with the FlashAir configuration - and fire it up. ![]() For anybody that's put off Octopi as being "too complicated", the developer (Gina) has done an amazing job refining the process. I almost jumped on Amazon and spent another $50 on a replacement when I decided to dig up an old Raspberry Pi 3B and burn the Octopi image as a temporary work-around. I struggled with the Toshiba updater and finally determined that my FlashAir is well and truly dead. I suffered with occasional card failures on the printer, and finally got to the point that I had to spend 10 minutes getting the card recognized. I put up with months of slow performance and software mishaps whenever the card connection would drop, but it worked -more or less - reliably. I figured out how to mount the card and - more or less - copy files over reliably. I finally got the FlashAir card to - more or less - connect to my wifi network reliably. I purchased a Toshiba FlashAir in May of 2018, thinking it was a simple way to avoid sneakernetting gcode on SD cards. ![]() Mini Rant: Best fix for Toshiba FlashAir - Replace it with Octoprint
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