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I agree. I have tested Klipper on:

  • Banana Pi BPI-M5
  • RPi 3B
  • RPi 3B+
  • Orange Pi 3 LTS
  • RPi CM4
  • BTT CB1
  • Asus Tinkerboard 2S

As already outlined in Other Single Board Computers (SBC) apart from Raspberry Pis the actual hardware side does not make such a big difference (i.e. hardly any if you use halfway recent ones).

The big difference is the Linux OS running on the devices.

  • The Linux needs to be customized WRT drivers, overlays etc to the specific hardware
  • The quality of this customization largely determines the success you will have, especially when using GPIOs, I2C, SPI etc
  • Especially desktop distributions tend to install unwanted / interfering packages as outlined in BRLtty / ModemManager - Services Interfering with Klipper
  • The Pi OS is very stable with this regard and also the recent Armbians (for natively supported boards) is great
  • Running it under a VM is neither recommend nor supported. See Running Klipper in a Virtual Machine (VM)

Generally you forgot all these “one-stop-solutions”, like Subsonic-Pad, Speeder Pad, Pad 7 etc. They are quite popular. But then again, the same above is true for them.

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