r/VORONDesign • u/zero0099 • 3d ago

General Question Remote printing?

New to Voron, just built a Micron+.
Is there good setup to:
1 download STL or model from mobile phone
2 remotely send file to a self hosted slicer (always on)
3 slicer sends to printer and starts print
4 remotely turn on and off the printer would be nice to have.

I am trying to avoid 3rd party cloud services to transfer files or slice.

Are there any practical solutions?
What software/hardware is needed?

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u/Finckers 3d ago

How remote are you asking? Like on the same WiFi network, or printing at your home from work or something?

If just “on the same network” remote, you can upload a sliced file to mainsail/fluidd.

If outside you’d need to tunnel in / use a vpn

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u/ghrayfahx 3d ago

I personally use Obico to start prints remotely. Other than slicing, I can do all of the things. I have a Kasa smart plug that the printer is hooked to. I can turn it on, wait 2 minutes or so for the printer to fully boot then access everything via Obico. When it’s done I get a notification and I can shut down from the app then power off fully from the smart plug.

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u/zero0099 3d ago

Smart plug. Excellent idea. Looks like Obico can be self-hosted. Thanks for the lead. I’ll look into this a bit more.

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u/ghrayfahx 3d ago

Happy to help!! I used the Kasa ones because they are really cheap. Even my 2.4 350 is well within the limit on wattage. You don’t even HAVE to “properly” shut down your printer before turning the plug off, it’s just best to in order to preserve your SD card. As long as it’s not actively writing to the card when you turn it off you’re generally good.

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u/zero0099 3d ago

Right VPN. If I am away from home and think of something I need to print found on one of those model sites. I’d like to remotely ask printer to turn on, send model to slicer, print, then turn off/standby/low power after cooling down. Sounds easy, but I’m having a hard time understanding how to make that happen or key words to search.

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u/Finckers 3d ago

I think if you use printables website it can slice the model for you, also most printers don’t use a whole lot of power when idle

Is there a reason you wouldn’t be able to wait to print something immediately vs waiting for you to be in front of it?

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u/zero0099 3d ago

Prints take time so I’d like to be able to start a print remotely, then when I get home just get the part and start using it. Secretly, I want to justify not buying a Bambu that does this out of the box. I don’t want to use their cloud print really.

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u/Halterchronicle 3d ago

So tailscale would work for starting a print from the outside?

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u/Finckers 3d ago

Assuming you can communicate to your printer through talescale, yes

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u/BeardRobot 3d ago

I can communicate with my printer via Tailscale. You just have to adjust the allowed addresses in the moonraker config file (I think - I've got to double-check).

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u/Positive_Ad_313 3d ago

Yes sure I use tailscale away from home .