#Using a Klipper printer without wifi

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sleek aurora
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I am looking to use my v0 at my job but I can't connect it to the network there because of security. Has anyone ever just setup a small router inside the printer to make connecting anywhere easy? Or is there a better option?

regal verge
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simplest way would probably be to buy the cheapest simple wifi router you can find and connect the printer to that (should be easy enough to use wired ethernet for that), and connect to its wifi from laptop/phone/whatever.

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There are also ways to turn a raspberry pi into a wifi accesspoint (and also run a dhcp server on it) so you can connect straight to that without any extra hardware, but it will involve some amount of linux wizardry and network config. The things you need would be something like hostapd (for the wifi) and dnsmasq (for dhcp).

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You could also just set both the rpi's and your laptops ethernet interfaces to static IPs on the same subnet (like 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2) to connect to it. If you need your laptops ethernet for something else and reconfiguring it is a hassle, again, a dhcp server on the rpi would fix that too.

sleek aurora
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Yeah the router way sounds a lot better to me. The rest sounds a little to complicated

regal verge
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how complicated it is depends entirely how familiar you are with linux and networking. if that is "nothing" (which is the case for the vast majority of humans), then a separate router thingy is probably your best bet. You wouldn't need anything fancy (since I guess you'll be in the same room or right next door, and you won't have any use for high transfer speeds), I've seen stuff for under €20.

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(also basically any potato router made the last decade will be enough to outperform what a Raspberry Pi is capable of network-wise)

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Something like a TP-link TL-WR902AC (which is about €30) is pretty small and can be usb-powered, so if it was anything but a V0 you could probably fit it inside the printer. It only has one ethernet port though, so that would need your laptop/phone to do wifi (which I guess you want anyway).