#Bought a voron and I'm having trouble setting it up

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civic bough
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Forgive me, I'm completly new to this and I'm aggressively confused and I'm not even sure if this is the right group for this questions but here we go.

I bought a switchwire today from fb marketplace, and I'm lost from the start. The machine and voron itself are completely new to me and I'm very confused what to do first on my part. I have been trying to figure out what to download because I'm in a wild goose chase it seems. I tried download mainsail, couldn't find any sort of place to download the application to my laptop. Same thing happened when I looked for moonraker and klipper itself. I cannot understand where to start and I've been too scared to ask. This is a completely new type of machine for me. Please help

hybrid spire
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hi there, im not the most advanced voron user either but i can help a bit

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were u able to power on and connect the printer to wifi

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because mainsail is a web gui, u access it by connecting to the printers ip/hostname on the local network

civic bough
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My sw is in working order (aside from the touchscreen is busted) and is able to connect to wifi. He gave me the login info too. This whole question may make you or others wonder if I need to wear a lifejacket in the shower, but I'm not that too savvy with remote access. Aside from rooting my K1 Max, I've never done anything remotely.

hybrid spire
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its all good, you have to start somewhere. do you have access to your router and know the hostname/ip address of your printer

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for example i connect to my printer using 'voron.local' in the browser

rose timber
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Very few voron users will install all the parts (klipper/klippy, moonraker, mainsail) from "individual parts", and either use the MainsailOS base image (found in the raspberry pi imager tool) or kiauh. That is probably what the previous owner did, and if it was sold as a working running printer it should have mainsail (or maybe fluidd) on there already. If it's connected to the wifi and you know the IP address / hostname of it, you should then be able to just access it with the same address in a web browser.

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If not, you'll need to get familiar with ssh to get just about anywhere. Either fix whatever is missing, or log in and grab the existing config (usually found in ~/printer_data/config/ and do a fresh default reinstall.