ORCA and SM2...how to get them to talk to each other?

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I’ve been trying to understand (unsuccessfully obviously) how to get the new ORCA to see/talk to my SM2 A250 machine…

I’ve tried to follow the ‘instructions’ I find in the forum, but I don’t see the same screens as in the posts?
The only way I’ve been able to try ORCA is to generate a gcode file, then go back to Luban and read it and have Luban send it to my SM2 - there has to be a better/smoother way to do this, doesn’t ther???

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Snapmaker Orca Release Notes | Snapmaker Wiki

You can use the official branch! Matching for 2.0 machines will be scheduled for a later update.

At present the company’s software resources aren’t enough to maintain an additional branch; we have to iterate on the company’s own version first, making sure it works well and is fully compatible with all company machines.

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For the A250 you need to run Luban (or sm2uploader) with it connected to your printer in the background. This gives you a local Octo/Klipper proxy server (using IP and port 127.0.0.1:5000 by default) that can forward files over to the printer.

Then in Snapmaker Orca (or OrcaSlicer) you configure the printer to connect to that Octo/Klipper proxy (using a button with a WiFi-like symbol) using that IP and port.

Here are some docs on how to set this up:

Once those are running and configured you can print directly to the A250.

It’s not perfect but this works well for me. Hope that helps!

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