Monitor multiple printers

[joedon3]

I think it'd be incredibly useful to be able to connect to multiple printers in a single interface. I'd think it'd be a tabbed interface or something.

[Charlie_Powell]

This question comes up regularly, and there are already solutions for this:

Multi Printer Dashboard

Need to be able to display in a browser the status for multiple OctoPrint instances I have eleven printers. 5 are running 1 to 1 with OctoPi. Six are running on SBC boards using Ubuntu desktop and 3 instances each of OctoPrint. I am looking for a way to aggregate the status of each printer onto a single page via a web browser for easily checking the status of all printers without opening each octoprint instance individually. I did not see a plugin that would do this nor did my search results…

OctoPrint only supports one printer, you need other software to connect them.

[fieldOfView]

@joedon3

I'd think it'd be a tabbed interface or something.

You know what has a tabbed interface? Your webbrowser...

[Leftcetio_Pontsfot]

The tab in my browser (Firefox on Windows) identifies the print progress and status, i.e. "0%-(operational)". Maybe it would be helpful for multiple printers to have the name of the printer included, i.e. "Prusa1 0%-(operational)".

[jneilliii]

This identification is from a plugin, not default OctoPrint...

[Leftcetio_Pontsfot]

I figured out a useful answer to this question -

In OctoPrint, click on the wrench (settings) OctoPrint/Appearance. Fill in the Title with the name of the printer. The tab in your web browser will now be this name followed by [OctoPrint], e.g. "Prusa 1 [OctoPrint]".

[David_Turetsky]

So Cura only works one printer at a time. Can we send print jobs for each printer one after another or only print at a time?

[David_Turetsky]

I got how to send print jobs to each printer by just selecting a different printer and sending the appropriate build to that printer. Sigh… all I needed to do was try.