Yes, waiting Pi3 support eagerly too.
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Any idea as to when the beta will be available? Iām thinking of getting a pi 2 just so I can play around with it if the beta is more than a month away. Thnaks
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No, itās days away. Early next week weāre going to release a release candidate via the forums and at the end weāll upload the official release.
Great. Looking forward to it.
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Waiting for the release candidate as well. Just purchased a Raspberry Pi 3 to make an Astrobox, only to find that I can not use the current Astrobox build.
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Cant wait either! Same as above, got my Pi3 only to find out I cant use it yet 
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Hereās the latest release candidate. This is not final yet. The final release will be available over the weekend but if you like test software you can give this one a try.
UPDATE: The release is now on the official download page
Note: this release requires an extra wifi dongle for setup and offline functionality. You can also set it using ethernet if you can get into the command line and find its initial IP address.
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Great, going to give it a try.
Cheers Daniel, itās downloading now, Iāll let you know how I get on. 
Hi Daniel, thanks for the build. I am running into some problems connecting the Astrobox to the internet. I have the Pi connected to the internet using an ethernet cable, but after installing the .img on the Pi and going through the setup I am unable through connect to my Astroprint.com account. When I skip that step I am getting the āNo internet connectionā icon in the top bar. When I try to connect to my Astroprint.com account I also get the message āYour device is not connected to Astroprint.comā
I know that the Pi has an internet connection because I am able to pull all the install files needed for a raspbian boot to desktop.
Is this an issue of the latest release candidate?
Hello AstroPrint Team,
I tried it and it worked first time - without a camera plugged in. I had my WiFi dongle plugged into the Pi3 USB from the beginning so canāt comment on the on-board WiFi functioning with the software.
I then turned it off to put the camera in, then restarted it. I canāt re-connect to the Astrobox WiFi. My phone (HTC One M8) says thereās a connection failure after hanging on āObtaining IP Addressā for a minute or so.
Iāve now turned it off, removed the camera, and restarted the Pi. Same problem. Canāt obtain IP address.
So now Iāve figured out where Iāve been stupid, and instead of delete this message before I post it, Iāll hopefully help someone Googling the issue.
Once setup it seems Astrobox doesnāt let you access its WiFi hotspot. What I then did was find out an alternative way to access it. This is through my chrome browser. I found the Astrobox IP address using Advanced IP Scanner.
And also, donāt do what I did and just power off the Pi from the wall, thereās a shut down button on the software.
So in a roundabout way this is just info only to the developers haha! Sorry!!
A little update. Perhaps I was a little premature in my previous post. I canāt get the Pi camera to work. Itās this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N9YWI1I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Other Pi 3 users seem to have made it work. Is it a software thing?
Are you planning on supporting the on board wifi soon? I donāt want to have to purchase a wifi adapter to then waste that money when you release a version that supports on board wifi.
We only support USB cameras
The onboard WiFi is already supported but unfortunately it doesnāt have the ability to create a hotspot and connect to an external WiFi network at the same time so we need the extra dongle for the hotspot functionality. Again, the regular connection to an existing WiFi network is already using the internal WiFi.
This is going to be the case for a while. The changes to the software and UI to support a single WiFi interface are going to take some time.
Hi Daniel,
Do you have any idea why I canāt log in into my Astroprint.com account from the Astrobox?
Yes. The new Jessie network manager sets up your ethernet with a fixed IP even though it probably gets it from the DHCP server. In the AstroBox layer is a manually set connection (?!). We expect our connections to be DHCP so itās mistakenly thinking that the device is not connected.
Iām working on that now
Great! Looking forward to the update!
Thanks! Will try it when I get home tonight