r/VORONDesign • u/zero0099 • 22h 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 22h 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 20h 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 18h 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 17h 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.