Camera on Home assistant and App  

RE: Camera on Home assistant and App

I am trying to figure out the same... 

RE: Camera on Home assistant and App

Add the Generic Camera integration in Home Assistant and paste the RTSP URL from Prusa Connect.

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Ensure NOT to enable WebRTC stream, because it disables RTSP.

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So to follow up on this as I did bring it up to our developers. 

They asked for a bit more feedback here as far as what people would like to see as far as the features / information to be shown. PLEASE NOTE, this is just a general feedback thing, there is zero promises, timelines or anything else. BUT this does give you a chance to provide some info directly to the developers 🙂 

So below are some questions from the developers about integrating Prusa Connect / Prusa Link to a smart home set up and what features you would like to see  integrated into a smart home set up?

• what are the most important passive info for user during prints (temperatures / states / progress / camera images ?)
• what active control functions are most important to you? (stop / pause / change speed / axis control / others ?)
• how you typically start a print (usb / from slicer / via connect / easyprint / other ?)
• what systems do you want to integrate their printer into (alexa / google home / apple home / home assistant / others ?)
• some segmenting info - do you  identify themselves as business/work/personal use; how many printers, what type, etc.

Again, to stress, this is just for general info / gauge interest in this, BUT not going to lie... Help to get more users to submit feedback might be a good thing 🙂 

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Connect is pretty great in terms of features, but having an outside dependency is meh.

• what are the most important passive info for user during prints (temperatures / states / progress / camera images ?)
  • All functional, controllable temp points target and actual (Hotend(s), bed, chamber). 
  • Non controllable temp points (mcu, toolboard etc) handled by system messaging if out of bounds.
  • Speed/Flow settings
  • Current printer operational state - Including any warning conditions
  • Warning/error history 
  • Material loaded type/status
  • Filament sensor status (could be handled by messaging system)
  • Progress - % of job complete and layer X of Y, mostly what is on the screen while the job is running
  • Camera feed - ideally from a printer managed camera(s) that is state aware for timelapes
  • Toolhead position (X,Y,Z, homed/not homed) - Delayed/interval updates when active, like 5/10 seconds or per layer
  • Log viewer
• what active control functions are most important to you? (stop / pause / change speed / axis control / others ?)
  • local queue management
  • Set/Unset Ready
  • Start/stop/pause current job
  • Bed/Nozzle/Chamber Temp overrides
  • Speed/Flow override 
  • Enable/disable timelapses on integrated camera
  • Terminal in/out has been super useful on other units, but usually for troubleshooting.  I have not run into the need for this on my prusa so far.
  • Motion control would be low priority. I have only ever used that to get a better camera view or to move the hotend away from the print during an error which Prusa seems to handle already.
• how you typically start a print (usb / from slicer / via connect / easyprint / other ?)
  • From Slicer via connect using queue.
• what systems do you want to integrate their printer into (alexa / google home / apple home / home assistant / others ?)
  • Home Assistant - I use the prusa link and generic camera add-ins today.
• some segmenting info - do you  identify themselves as business/work/personal use; how many printers, what type, etc.
  • Personal use
  • 4 printers - 1 Prusa Core One, modified Ender 3, couple of kit build systems

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what are the most important passive info for user during prints (temperatures / states / progress / camera images ?):

Camera view to see if the print did not fail, second one is when the print will end.

Currently better messages why printer is waiting or has issues would be nice to be available over the PrusaLink API, because current states are worse than lacking, unfortunately.

what active control functions are most important to you? (stop / pause / change speed / axis control / others ?):

Pause/stop print

how you typically start a print (usb / from slicer / via connect / easyprint / other ?):

prusa link local upload with instant print selected

what systems do you want to integrate their printer into (alexa / google home / apple home / home assistant / others ?)

HomeAssistant, Node-Red, prometheus metrics, syslog ( all done already)

Google Home maybe, but nit required because I have HA already

some segmenting info - do you identify themselves as business/work/personal use; how many printers, what type, etc.

Personal, 2 printers: Mini and Core One L.

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So, it would be nice to be able to customize the notification and interval of those notifications? Personally that's what I use the home assistant integration to do already and it works great, but I could see others finding that useful as well. Basically I have it set up so that every 10% of the print, it takes a snapshot with the buddy cam, and sends that picture to me as a notification on my phone. Useful, but was finicky to set up.

Heres the code I use to do it, if anyone wants to implement the same thing: https://gist.github.com/Xelinor/f6c692b06efcf00c17788d590c4f08f1

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Hey Shane,

I have answers below

• what are the most important passive info for user during prints (temperatures / states / progress / camera images ?) For me I want to see (in order of importance) camera, progress, temperatures, filament type.
• what active control functions are most important to you? (stop / pause / change speed / axis control / others ?) In order of importance, pause/stop, unload/load filament, start print. That said control is not that important to me as I can use the Prusa app for these details. 
• how you typically start a print (usb / from slicer / via connect / easyprint / other ?) Prusa slicer or Prusa app. I dont really see this changing.
• what systems do you want to integrate their printer into (alexa / google home / apple home / home assistant / others ?) Apple, Home assistant
• some segmenting info - do you  identify themselves as business/work/personal use; how many printers, what type, etc. 90% Personal, 10% for business. I have a Core one L (just arrived today,) A MK4s, and a Mini+. 
• Other suggestions: Get the buddy camera on some sort of standard like ONVIF and allow seeing downloading the photos/time lapse without taking out the SD card. In general also like better than 1 image/10 seconds when looking at it live. Viewing the RSTP stream has never worked.   

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what are the most important passive info for user during prints (temperatures / states / progress / camera images ?)

• no opinion

what active control functions are most important to you? (stop / pause / change speed / axis control / others ?)

• I'd like the ability to control the LED's on the toolhead and around the body of the XL. Imagine different scene's...
• I'd also like a reboot button
• I'd like the ability to change in/out of stealth mode

how you typically start a print (usb / from slicer / via connect / easyprint / other ?)

• From slicer (through connect)

what systems do you want to integrate their printer into (alexa / google home / apple home / home assistant / others ?)

• Homeassistant

some segmenting info - do you  identify themselves as business/work/personal use; how many printers, what type, etc.

• personal, XL, Mk4

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• What are the most important passive info for user during prints: (non existing)
  • Maximum and current Layer count
  • Error Messages
  • current speed
  • current flow rate
• what active control functions are most important to you?
  • control bed- and nozzle temprature (or pre-heat command)
  • switch Filament command (!!!)
  • Stealth Mode- flow rate- Speed
  • Send GCode Commands directly
  • Set Printer Ready for Queue
• how you typically start a print:
  • Slicer via Connect/Link
  • via Prusa-connect (existing files)
  • on the printer (existing files)
  • set printer ready for Queue
• What systems do you want to integrate the printer into:
  • Home Assistant
• segmenting info:
  • personal us
  • 1x CoreOne
  • (1x BBL A1 Mini)