octoprint

Running a 3d printer alone at home is not necessarily the best idea - so I was looking for a way to force it off from remote. As OctoPrint user I stumbled upon a plugin to control TP-Link Smartplugs, so I decided to give them a try. What I found especially nice on the HS110 model was that it is possible to monitor power usage, current and voltage. Of course I wanted to have a long term graph of it. The result is a small collectd plugin, written in Python. It is available on github: https://github.com/bzed/collectd-tplink_hs110.

Recently I joined the group of 3d printer owners and OctoPrint users. After some days I got annoyed by the fact that so far nobody seems to have thought about automatically connecting a printer to OctoPrint after turning the printer on. If you start OctoPrint after your printer, everything works fine. But here OctoPrint runs 24/7 but I turn off the printer when it is done with printing. My solution of the problem is based on udev and systemd and should work on most recent Linux installations. »