RatOS on Orangestorm Giga with BTT Octopus Pro + Beacon + TMC5160
Hi, since we have a Vcore4 and are really happy with RatOS, and also want to get a better control of our Orangestrom Giga, we are thinking about replacing the stock electronic and using RatOS for the Giga. Unfortunately documentation about using a custom printer in RatOS is limited, so I would like to get some information for best practice. Should I start with a printer like the vcore4 and manually edit the config file, or are there other ways to achieve this? Wiring wise we could theoretically getting close to a vcore since the Octopus, Beacon .... is also used there
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Ratos is klipper with a bunch of macros. You can make all the edits in printer.cfg as usual.
If you've got a lot of hardware in common, choosing a similar printer will definitely be a leg up.
thx for the feedback. So updates etc. won't brick a custom configuration?
Updates can break stuff but it depends on how heavily you have modified the macros and config.
Because klipper lets you override almost anything that has been defined before with a new definition defined later you can change or reconfigure as much of RatOS as you want basically.
I have overridden at least a dozen of the default macros.
However because many of my new macros still call RatOS macros in the backend if those are changed to work differently my overrides could break since they don't take that into account.
But the macros RatOS comes with are very extensive and powerful so I personally think its worth it. Especially because they are unlikely to make a change drastic enough to be a problem.
The only problem I have with RatOS is the configurator doesn't have great support for just omitting parts. So I have a few items defined that don't exist on the printer physically.