E-mail on printing complete & other ideas
Hello,
please help me to check this aginst "inveting a bicycle":) I would be happy to know if this has been implemented already or is better not to ...
If I connect some free pins of RAMBo 1.3 mini to the Raspberry Pi and slightly modify Marlin firmware routines "CardReader::getStatus()" and "CardReader::printingHasFinished()", I could trigger Raspberry Pi to send me an e-mail on job complete and a picture from the web camera on every 10% done. Also, by triggering Marlin "KILL_PIN", I could have an "emergency shutdown" button on the web frontend I have set-up in the Raspberry to remotelly monitor the progres of the print via connected USB web-cam. Looking at the RAMBo board, looks that ICSP header pins could be re-used for that purpose ...
I think I might have necessary skills to acomplish that, as I kow Arduino and can solder and code.
Any thoughts, warings etc. ?
Thanks in advance,
Janis
Re: E-mail on printing complete & other ideas
Hi Janis,
Since you already plan to use a Raspberry, why not just using octoprint with this kind of plugin: http://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/emailnotifier/
The thing with modification of the firmware is that your modification will need to be done at each new version, and you have no ensurance that new printer features will let the Rambo card Ressources you plan to use available in the future.
I'm like Jon Snow, I know nothing.
Re: E-mail on printing complete & other ideas
HI Janis,
Astroprint is a fork of Octoprint, it does you want and more. Details are here: www.astroprint.com
I've used both astroprint and octoprint, found that astroprint is easier to setup and use, has a better interface and more features, though lacks plugins. It will send you the email on completion and you can monitor the print via your webcam in realtime via the web app.
Best,
Steve
Re: E-mail on printing complete & other ideas
Thank you for your replies!
I had a wrong impession about the Octoprint (and forks) due to some other forum posts, and later, when I was trying to understand how to interface Pi to a "printer control board". That was before I had my Prusa printer.
Yesterday I checked Octoprint page again, downloaded and had everything up and running the same night. Downside ... I'm so sleepy right now 🙄
I will check the Astroprint as well, thanks Steve!
Janis