OctoPrint On Air #10
Channel: OctoPrint
Date: 2017-05-24

A recording of the tenth video chat and Q&A about all things OctoPrint for my Patrons on Patreon that aired live on May 13th 2017.

My Patrons can submit questions to answer during the Q&A session via a Google Form before and 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: http://octoprint.org
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foosel

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Links related to this episode:

Patreon survey results (Patrons only): https://www.patreon.com/posts/octoprint-patron-8780152 (Part1) and https://www.patreon.com/posts/octoprint-patron-8780838 (Part 2)

OctoPrint Pffft by Mark Walker (basic IFTTT plugin): https://github.com/markwal/OctoPrint-Pfttt

HAProxy documentation about basic authentication: https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.5/configuration.html#3.4

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Intro

What I have been up to

00:01:44 First release candidate for 1.3.3
00:02:32 Patreon survey evaluation
00:04:12 Preparation of feature clusters for 1.4.0 priority survey
00:05:45 More work on the new communication layer

Plans for the near future

00:08:00 New communication layer, 1.4.0 roadmap & usual maintenance madness
00:08:35 Releasing 1.3.3 (please give feedback on the RCs!)

Q&A

00:10:35 "I have a variety of Orange Pi's. What is the right way to make and distribute a OS-Image with OctoPrint for those? The last image I released was for OPi-PC in Facebook and made me mad concerning support (people simply not reading manuals)"
00:14:15 "What made you want to 3d print originally? What do you print while developing? A bit off topic, but I am curious. I suppose you wouldn't have started OctoPrint without that fundamental interest, right?"
00:21:31 "Any plans to integrate with IFTTT?"
00:24:54 "Any chance that you could provide a better history function to show duration of prints and counts of how many times the same print has been done (even if the name is different)?"
00:28:58 "I run haproxy as a front-end to OctoPrint and I would like to use some authentication to access OctoPrint itself. Do you have any suggestions on how that might be done?"
00:41:50 "Do you know how many people actually install RC or dev versions?"
00:46:22 "What are your big scary/hairy plans for v2? What is the future?"

Wrap-up & Goodbye