Tiger Touch for OctoPrint 3D printers
Tiger Touch turns a BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch into a live screen for a printer behind OctoPrint: progress, time left and temperatures, for any Marlin printer.
- Models
- Any Marlin printer behind OctoPrint (Ender, Prusa MK3, Anet and more)
- Connection
- OctoPrint's REST API over HTTP on your local network (port 80 unless you give another), read every 2 seconds, with its API key.
- Tested
- Run against Tiger Studio Manager's OctoPrint test server: printing, paused, finished, errors and no printer plugged in. Not yet on a real printer.
Install Tiger Touch from your browser Source on GitHub
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You dreamed of it. The TigerSquad built it.
Tiger Touch, Tiger Studio, TigerScale, TigerSpool, TigerPOD: free tools made by a community of makers, for every brand of printer.
Ender-3 S1
Ender-3 V2
Ender-3
CR-10
Prusa MK3S
Anycubic i3 Mega S
Artillery Sidewinder X1
Artillery Genius
What you need
- A BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch, the 5-inch touchscreen, sold separately: maybe the one already in your drawer. The K-Touch is the same board with another BIGTREETECH firmware: Tiger Touch replaces either.
- For the first installation only: Chrome or Edge on a computer and a USB-C data cable. Nothing stays plugged in afterwards.
- Your printer on the same Wi-Fi network as the screen (or its maker's cloud, where the page above says so).
- A free TigerSystem account, with the printer added in Tiger Studio Manager, the desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux).
What the screen shows for a OctoPrint 3D printer
- State, progress, time left and the file being printed
- Nozzle and bed temperatures
- When no printer is plugged into OctoPrint, the card says so instead of showing it offline
Pause, stop and the light
Pause, resume and stop through OctoPrint; stop asks for a confirmation first. OctoPrint has no light command, so the light button stays dimmed.
Set it up in three steps
- Create an API key in OctoPrint (Settings > Application keys).
- Add the printer in Tiger Studio Manager (desktop app) with OctoPrint's address and key.
- Flash Tiger Touch, sign in with the same TigerSystem account, and switch the printer on in Settings > Printers.
Tip. An OctoPi answers on port 80; write another port after the address if yours differs.
OctoPrint questions
Which printers work through OctoPrint?
Any printer OctoPrint drives, most of them on Marlin: Ender, Prusa MK3, Anet and more.
Do I need an API key?
Yes: create one in OctoPrint and add it in Tiger Studio Manager.
Can it switch the light?
No: OctoPrint has no light command.
The same screen, every brand
Tiger Touch follows every printer of your TigerSystem account on one screen, whatever the brand, each through its maker's own connection:
- Bambu Lab Bambu cloud or LAN mode, every AMS slot, the light
- Creality On your network, the CFS, the light, pause and stop
- Elegoo Centauri Carbon 1 and 2 on your network, the Canvas
- Anycubic Anycubic cloud or your network, every ACE slot
- Snapmaker The U1 on your network, its four tool heads
- FlashForge On your network, the AD5X material station
- Prusa PrusaLink on your network: progress and temperatures
- Klipper Moonraker: Voron, Qidi, Sovol, AFC and Happy Hare
What Tiger Touch is
A free, open-source firmware that turns the BIGTREETECH Panda Touch or K-Touch, a 5-inch touchscreen made for Bambu Lab, into one live screen for all your 3D printers. No computer left on and no bridge: it signs in to your TigerSystem account, reads your printers from it and talks to each one directly.
Built around makers, not around a brand
Printer makers build their software around their own machines: their apps, their clouds and their screens are designed to keep you with their printers. TigerSystem starts from the other end: you. Whatever printers you own, whatever their brand, whatever computer or phone you use, our tools adapt to the way you work, not the other way round. A OctoPrint printer today, another brand tomorrow: the same screen follows both.
Every brand on one screen
Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, Anycubic, Snapmaker, FlashForge, Prusa, Klipper and OctoPrint, up to ten printers live at once.
Nothing to type
Your printers come from your TigerSystem account, with their addresses and access codes, as Tiger Studio Manager added them.
Install from your browser
Plug the screen in, press Install in Chrome or Edge: a few minutes, no tools, no soldering.
Updates over Wi-Fi
The screen finds new versions by itself and asks; each one is checked before it is used.
Live view in Tiger Studio
Tiger Studio Manager shows the screen live, touches it and takes screenshots for a bug report or a post.
Free and open source
MIT licence, no subscription, eleven languages, made by the TigerSquad community.
The rest of the TigerSystem family
Tiger Touch is one of TigerSystem's free tools. The others share the same account, the same spools and the same printers:
Tiger Studio Manager
Mission control for your filament and your printers, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Start here: your account and your printers are set up there.
TigerPOD Mini
A spool scanner for your desk that you print yourself: put a spool down and it opens in Tiger Studio.
TigerScale V3
An open-source scale: the chip says what the spool is, the load cell how many grams are left.
TigerSpool
A small box beside the printer: hold a spool against it and the filament is written into the printer's slot.