[Blog] OctoPrint On Air #18 (Patreon)

OctoPrint On Air #18

The eighteenth episode of a monthly dev log/Q&A session about all things OctoPrint for my Patrons on Patreon which aired live on July 28th 2017. My Patrons can submit questions to answer during the Q&A session via a Google Form before and - usually ;) - also live during the broadcast via the chat. Expect more videos like that roughly on a monthly schedule. If you want to attend the live broadcast and ask questions beforehand or live on air, consider becoming a Patron on Patreon and selecting one of the corresponding perks - that will also help me with continuing to work on OctoPrint full time, which I love doing! OctoPrint's webpage: https://octoprint.org Community forum: https://discourse.octoprint.org Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foosel ---- Links related to this episode: Rough Proof of Concept on how to replace the Temperature and Control tabs with one unified tab: https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint-ConsolidateTempControl OutsourcedGuru's update helper script: https://discourse.octoprint.org/t/1786 ---- Intro What have I been up to? 00:02:40 1.3.9 was released 00:06:53 1.3.10: Undervoltage and overheat detection in the (Octo)Pi Support plugin & an opt-in tracking plugin 00:25:20 1.4.0: First prints with the new comm layer completed, SD card upload implemented - first milestone! What are the next steps? 00:29:33 1.3.10: New authentication mechanism as discussed on the (obsolete) mailing list a long while ago 00:31:25 1.4.0: Tackle all those small but annoying things that still need to be tackled & do some extensive testing Q&A 00:32:53 "Has there been an uptick in plugin activity lately, or am I just seeing it more?" 00:34:58 Interlude: How to disable "new plugin" notifications 00:36:24 "Has any thought been given to making a mobile friendly version of the UI?" & "For PC, the HTML code seems to be set to 1024 screen width. Is it possible to set it to 1280 or dynamic?" 00:41:38 "Can the user interface be changed, or condensed easily? I find myself swapping back and forth from the machine jog control page to the temp and extruder on/off page, A LOT. Having all the main controls on a single user interface would be helpful, any cnc machine interface you could take inspiration from." 00:48:17 "Any plans to improve the initial plugin installation process, now that there are so many nice plugins it would be very helpful to be able to export a list of installed plugins as json or similar from the webgui, feed that list to another octoprint instance and have it install everything in one go. Similarly, a textual config export / import system in the webgui would simplify the process of setting up multiple octoprint servers." 00:54:36 "is there a way [plugin?] to change settings [speed, temp, flow] during the print, but not at that time but at layer # or from height...? Many times I start a print, adjust setting for one part, but I know I can speed up later orhave to slow down the last part and forgot to set that in the gcode. Especially for long print a list would be nice where you can add these 'todo' life changes." Wrap-up