OctoPrint On Air #16
Channel: OctoPrint
Date: 11/05/2018

The sixteenth episode of a monthly dev log/Q&A session about all things OctoPrint for my Patrons on Patreon which aired live on May 5th 2018 - due to a lack of questions to answer during the Q&A segment this episode turned out way shorter than usual.

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: http://octoprint.org

Community forum: https://discourse.octoprint.org

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foosel

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Intro

What I have been up to

00:01:57 OctoPrint 1.3.7 (with four release candidates), OctoPrint 1.3.8 to fix an issue with a third party dependency
00:03:33 Race condition on pause/cancel spotted, to be fixed in 1.3.9, workaround available (also here: https://discourse.octoprint.org/t/1625)
00:07:48 Once again: how to help test OctoPrint release candidates
00:09:27 Granular permission system PR got merged on the devel branch
00:11:50 GDPR compliance for OctoPrint's web sites (hooray...)
00:14:00 OctoPi 0.15.0rc1 and 0.15.0 release
00:14:55 Compatibility issue on OctoPi 0.15.0 between OctoPrint 1.3.8 and pip 10 (also here: https://discourse.octoprint.org/t/1746)
00:17:50 New forum at discourse.octoprint.org is working REALLY great!

What's next

00:19:45 Push out a new OctoPi image (0.15.1) with a fix for the incompatibility between OctoPrint 1.3.8 and pip 10
00:20:10 Work towards OctoPrint 1.3.9
00:20:25 More work on GDPR compliance
00:20:39 Work towards OctoPrint 1.4.0

Q&A

00:22:00 "Since so many of us run OctoPrint on OctoPi, it would be great to get some more focus on how to control extra printer hardware like fans, chamber heaters, lamps, status leds and so on safely from the raspberry."
00:25:30 "Have you seen the Klipper project (https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper) and do you see an opportunity for better integration between OctoPrint and Klipper?"

Wrap-up

00:28:05 Two years of crowd funding - HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who makes it possible for me to continue working on this project full time through Patreon, PayPal and Liberapay!