Support for Spoolman

[SirFlip]

Support for the Spoolman plugin https://github.com/mdziekon/octoprint-spoolman would be a great addition.

Then it would nicely work together with https://github.com/Donkie/Spoolman

[jukebox42]

I'll take a look once I get this MK4 version stable. Hopefully they have similar hooks to the other spool managers I've hooked up.

[GitSoks]

+1 Support for Spoolman would be really awesome

[crzykidd]

+1 for Spoolman, Thanks for all your effort.

[Llamrei80]

Any Update on this?

Great plugin, keep up the good work.

[jukebox42]

Hey All,

I appreciate your patience. Finally got around to poking at this. I didn't realize I was signing myself up for spinning up another service lol. Took me a little bit longer to figure out how to capture the data (I really need to do some refactoring some day).

I'm not a regular user of spool man so I was hoping for a few testers to let me know if things are working as expected. Here is a patch version of the plugin with spool man support :).

A few notes:

• You'll need to go into the prusa mmu settings and switch over to SpoolMan
• Filament described as multi-color in spool man will show up as one color in the filament window/nav icon (the first one defined)
• I see there's some modal warnings. I'm not sure if you'll need to disable some of that in spoolman. I've seen issues in the past where octoprint silences them if there's already one open.

To install:

• Download the zip file below (or build this pr #55 yourself and use that zip file)
• Within Octoprint navigate to settings -> Plugin Manager
• Click + Get More
• Enter your password
• Scroll to the bottom and upload the file
• Restart.

Octoprint-PrusaMmu.zip

Thanks in advance!

[DavyGD]

Giving it a try!

[graelo]

Hi @jukebox42, thank you so much for this (and more generally the plugin).

I just successfully printed these 3 configs, and each time your plugin updated spoolman using the precise weights from the gcode:

• single tool print with tool 0
• single tool print with tool 1
• multi-material (just one tool change because testing) with both tool 0 and 1

Here are the screenshots for the 2 first configs

with tool 0

with tool 1

I have 2 remarks, but honestly not sure they are related the Spoolman integration

• my initial print was my first one with your plugin, and I mistakenly selected a tool override -> this led to a cryptic error about T8 not being passed to the printer. Probably rings a bell to you.
• the other 3 prints (mentioned above) were all successful, with the expected filament, but the filament shown in the menu bar is not at all the one being selected for printing. This is just a display issue.

Your update works great for me, thanks!

HIH!

[graelo]

Hello, additional pieces of feedback.

Great:

• After many multi-material and single material prints, no issues with printing / filament choices

The following are minor issues. In my view, there's no need to address them as part of this PR: they could be the topic of other issues. As you see fit.

Minor:

• the filament shown in the menu bar is quite never aligned with my choices in the spoolman plugin: meaning if tool #1 is gray in the spoolman plugin, the MMU menubar filament would display, say, Orange. This is visible in my first screenshot above.
• when a print starts, the plugin displays a summary window (very useful), but in case Tool #0 was not used, the window would still present it as using 0.0g.

Less minor:

• the prusammu plugin updates the date of all filaments, even if some of them were not used in the print. Because all filaments are updated (even if 0.0g), all update Last Used Dates are refreshed, and it much lessens the usefulness of the Last Used Date in spoolman. I guess this is the case with other filament managers , as you made no change in your spoolman branch.

I hope it helps. Thanks again!