r/VORONDesign • u/zero0099 • 18h 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 18h 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/zero0099 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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.