Dual Extruder

[schnudergof]

Hey there

I'd love to see support for dual-extruder (Show/set Temp, load filament).

[UnchartedBull]

Would love to work on this, but as stated in #332 I don't have a multi-extruder printer to test this on, which makes it really hard for me to work on this for now.

[mkuf]

Would love to work on this, but as stated in #332 I don't have a multi-extruder printer to test this on, which makes it really hard for me to work on this for now.

Octoprint's Virtual Printer Plugin might be helpful here. That Printer can be configured to have multiple Tools.
https://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/development/virtual_printer.html

-mkuf

[radaiko]

+1

I have to use OctoScreen because of Dual Extruder support.

[mattydboom]

Shame, I (and many others) have dual nozzle printers, and being able to load, unload, and preheat specific nozzles would be a great addition. Before researching this post I thought it was bound to already exist, but seems not. Gets a vote from me!

[sukhbirg]

Setting up new printer with dual extruder and having the ability to manage both from dashboard would be great. Gets a vote from me.

[Nathan22211]

Any update on this? I've got a Zonestar with 4 extruders and 1 hotend so I kinda want this to be a thing. Geeetech printers should be cheap, though not great from what I hear, but good enough for testing.

[queengooborg]

I'm currently working on a pull request to incorporate this functionality for multiple extruder/hotend support (AKA not just two), hoping to have it ready for review and merging soon for all of the fellow multi-extruder printer users out there!

Sneak peek of my progress thus far:

For anyone who's curious, the WIP branch is available here: https://github.com/queengooborg/OctoDash/tree/multi-extruder

[morphias2004]

@queengooborg how are you progressing with this?

I'm looking for a solution for my Prusa XL. I worked with another user and Gina from OctoPrint to have full multi tool support incorporated into OctoPrint.

OctoPrint/OctoPrint#5018

[queengooborg]

Hi there! I am actually no longer maintaining this pull request, as I have switched to using a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, and no longer need to use OctoPrint. Additionally, it appears that OctoPrint is unmaintained as there is no new releases since three years ago, so I do not think this pull request (or anything similar) will get merged unless someone forks the project.