Beacon flashing
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THIS IS A RISKY OPERATION YOU CAN BRICK YOUR BEACON
Flashing the Beacon¶
You will need some kind of linux environment, this can be a Raspberry Pi, desktop Linux or even a Linux Server if you can plug something in via USB. If you do not have anything like that, you will need to create a Live USB key running Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop edition.
Creating a Live USB Key¶
You should create a live USB with Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop, make sure the USB is at least 8GB in size!
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install#1-getting-started
Install some deps on Ubuntu¶
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualenv python3-dev python3-pip libffi-dev build-essential git dfu-util
Clone Klipper and Beacon-Klipper¶
git clone "https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper" $HOME/klipper
git clone https://github.com/beacon3d/beacon_klipper.git $HOME/beacon-klipper
Setup Klipper Virtual Env¶
virtualenv --system-site-packages $HOME/klippy-env
$HOME/klippy-env/bin/pip3 install -r $HOME/klipper/scripts/klippy-requirements.txt
Flash Beacon¶
