OctoPrint On Air #22
Channel: OctoPrint
Date: 2019-02-18

The twenty second episode of a monthly dev log/Q&A session about all things OctoPrint for my Patrons on Patreon which aired live on February 9th 2018.

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: https://octoprint.org

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

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

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What have I been up to @ 00:01:42

00:01:55 Overdue vacation & working through the backlog of that
00:03:52 Python 3 support for 1.4.0
00:11:42 Preparing a move of the community forum

What are the next steps @ 00:13:54

00:13:58 Forum move on February 11th - it went great! \o/
00:14:48 More work on 1.3.11
00:15:41 Back to working on 1.4.0
00:19:08 Looking into making the tracking results available

Quick look at the stats @ 00:21:15 

Q&A @ 00:31:18

00:31:23 Chris H: "I'd love to hear more about how you're getting the metrics and passing them to Elasticsearch, but that's probably not something that would be of interest to the general Octoprint community."
00:39:06 Rigid3d: "Is there any plan on developing a wifi setup plugin such as netconnectd?"
00:42:12 Alex: "What's your opinion on the feasibility of interfacing ESP3D with Octoprint? As 3D printers' cost/quality ratio continues to improve, a raspberry pi with accesoires (PSU, housing, ...) to add to the printer becomes more and more a considerable cost for print farms. I see a potential solution to this, by having Octoprint run in some centralized location (cloud, docker, ...), and installing cheap ESP32's in our 3D printers. They could then wirelessly interface with Octoprint."
00:49:25 Alexander Swensen: "I work in Python a lot. Even so I find the documentation for building my own plugins fairly daunting. What would you recommend? Thanks! 🖖"

Wrap-up @ 00:53:33