#Timelapses getting merged when running simultaneous prints on two different machines.

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frail shale
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Hi, I have recently switched to Klipper from Octoprint as I was looking into setting up a print farm in the future and was recommended towards Mainsail by a fellow enthusiast. I was able to successfully install two Klipper and Moonraker instances to control my Ender 3 V2 and Ender 3 S1 pro through the Mainsail interface. The whole set up is on a Pi 3B+ and is working very smoothly.

It wasn't really a breeze setting up these but gladly I did spend a good amount of time reading whatever online guides I could find and browsing through the discord support forum, reddit, github to help me set up.

I did use mainsail OS and used KIAUH to remove existing installations and then freshly installed two instances for running two printers.

So everything is working great except the fact that when I do run two simultaneous prints and have timelapse feature enabled for both prints, the rendering process merges all the frames available at the end of print from both prints into a single timelapse. I can save all the frames and make separate timelapse using a different tool but is there a way for Moonraker to not merge feeds from two different cameras into a single timelapse. As no errors are shown I don't really know what log or configuration to post here so if I can get someone to guide me through this issue that will be great.

I do use the same time format code for both timelapse setups and I dont know if changing that would make any difference as the frames seem to be getting stored in one place regardless. The moonraker configuration is separate for both printers and works very well independently during simultaneous operation. I am still surprised at how much a Pi board is able to handle. Eagerly waiting for a saviour.

hybrid yoke
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You need to specify 2 temp locations if you run to printers at a single pi

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add the path to your moonraker.conf files in your 2 instances for printer 1 eg.[timelapse] frame_path: /tmp/timelapse1/ and for printer2 [timelapse] frame_path: /tmp/timelapse2/

frail shale
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I have implemented the changes and added output_path: ~/timelapse1/
and
output_path: ~/timelapse2/
For printer 1 and 2 respectively. Going to do a test run and update in the next hour if I get any issues. Thank you @hybrid yoke