CLI control to pause and resume printing

Boyd_Ako · December 29, 2020, 4:56am

Question

Does anybody know of a CLI way to control the printing? I already know about the octoprint client stuff to get information. But, is there away to pause the printing?

Overall objective

I looking to connecting it to my UPS so that it will pause a print if it detects a power outage and then resume when power gets restored.

kantlivelong · December 29, 2020, 3:01pm

You can do this via the REST API.

Boyd_Ako · December 30, 2020, 6:46am

Any help on that? I'm not the Dev type to play nice with APIs.

towlerg · December 30, 2020, 8:55am

Showing my ignorance again but what is this?

Boyd_Ako · December 31, 2020, 5:58pm

It's the CLI for Octoprint. It's a bit limited unless you're the know-how dev type. I use it to "get" information. Getting it to "do" something is a bit of a dark area.

Charlie_Powell · December 31, 2020, 7:17pm

OctoPrint client in the source:

It's not updated all that much. Probably not much interest in maintaining it within OctoPrint, it's not touched frequently. A 3rd party solution would probably be a better option, since it could be maintained outside of the core application. as long as it works!