Useful plugins not listed in the repository (yet)

[foosel]

Useful plugins out there that for some reason their author didn't yet choose to register with the official plugin repository:

• Filetab: Moves the "Files" component from the sidebar to the tab area (needs some manual fumbling around since it's mostly provided as a proof of concept, README is included)

• Illuminatrix: Grants Octoprint ability to control a printer lighting system, driven in response to print events.

• MatterSlicer: Allows slicing uploaded STL files via MatterSlicer

• netconnectd: Client for netconnectd that allows configuration of netconnectd through OctoPrint's settings dialog. It's only available for Linux right now.

• OctoPrint-SidebarOrder: Allows reordering of the sidebar components.

• Progress on Sense Hat: Show the progress of your print on the 8x8 LED matrix of a Sense Hat

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[eerke2021]

I’m literally just setting up Octaprint. Just waiting on a camera for my Pi as I want to move it into the basement. Is there a way to trigger a light on for each photo in the Timelapse? I have a wifi LED strip free that I could connect. I also have a Home Assistant OS running on a different Pi. I could set up an automation in home assistant so that the LED turned on for each photo even if there is no way to connect directly.

[b-morgan]

I'm not sure why you decided to add a reply to this five year old topic. You would get better exposure if you opened your very own topic.

LED lights draw very little power so I'm not sure it is worth the effort to turn them on and off for each timelapse photo. Turn them on when you start a print job and turn them off after.

[Ewald_Ikemann]

Also a forum search gave these:

Switching on lights before taking photo

Hi, I'm looking to setup some lights on my printer. I can easily connect the lights using a pin on the controller (that can be controlled using gcodes), or a pin on the raspi (3B+). These lights can be switched on / off using existing plugins on Octoprint. However, I want the lights to switch on automatically a couple of seconds before a photo is taken and then switched off after a couple of seconds. Want to create good looking timelapses, but don't want the lights to be on all the time. Any …

Webcam activates LEDs?

I recently used the Enclosure plugin to get an RGB LED strip to be controlled via the GPIO pins. So this is all well and good, and easy to add the gcode to the print files. Im curious if there is any way to have that gcode run when the webcam is brought up? Just thinking that its not necessary to have the LEDs on all the time, but when logging in to check a print, it would be handy if the activation of the webcam also could turn on the LEDs. ... possible?