Printers and Benchy Host
Add your printers to a workspace so anyone can plan with them, and watch them from your Mac.
Printer profiles
Add your printers to the workspace so anyone in it, and Benchy, can plan with them. A printer profile records:
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| Model | Bambu Lab P1S |
| Nozzle | 0.4 mm hardened steel |
| Bed | Textured PEI |
| Loaded filament | PETG, black |
| Where it is | On Olive's Mac |
Add a printer in Printers in the workspace's settings, or let Benchy Desktop add the printers it finds. Keep the loaded filament up to date so plans use the right material.
Benchy Host
Benchy Host connects Benchy Desktop to the printers on your network. Pair a printer in Terminal with benchy-host pair. Desktop then lists your printers with their state, and each printer's page shows the time left, the latest camera frame, layer progress, temperatures and past prints. The connection stays on your Mac: printers are never opened to the internet, and each Mac watches its own printers.
Benchy Host only watches. Start, pause or cancel a print on the printer or in its own app.
Later: queued prints for print farms
Today, people start every print, and agents plan prints and make print batches (see How Benchy works). Later, for print farms, an agent will be able to add prints from a print batch to a printer's queue in Benchy Host. Each queued print will start only after a person approves that one print, and the print will record who approved it. Approving one print will never approve the next.
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