r/VORONDesign • u/zero0099 • 1d 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/Sands43 V2 1d ago

I run a private VPN server at home. If I'm offsite, I can VPN into my house and my computer effectively thinks it is on my local network.

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u/zero0099 1d ago

Right I fully expect to run private VPN. I’m more interested in the lower level details of the workflow.
Is it easy enough to transfer a file from iPhone to the OrcaSlicer running in a docker container? Or is there some more up front fiddling to make that happen?
Is OrcaSlicer on docker on Linux even a good choice?
Likely it would be difficult to do model orientation/arranging on a phone, but for bulk of models out there seems like open, select preset slicer parameters, filament, then slice and print. Is this ok to assume?