Originally shared by René Jurack
Anyone interested in 3D printer status updates on the applewatch? (and probably other smartwatches, too)
It’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure what use it would be. The timing predictions by my slicer(s) are pretty accurate, so when I start a print I already know when it’s going to finish (give or take 5 minutes).
More importantly, if I’m not next to my printers, and I’ve gone out leaving them unattended (which I rarely do), then I’m probably not in a position to act upon the completion message anyway.
Sorry, it’s a cool idea, I’m just not sure what benefit it would give…
E.g. there are statusupdates every x minutes or x mm layerheight (you choose) and you can send simple commands like “abort”, “pause” or something in that ballpark right from your watch. Start a difficult print, then go do laundry or stuff and after some time you doing your daily routine, the printer just says “hey, I am fine and working like expected, here is a photo-proof…” right on your wrist without you have to think about it.
not interested
It’d be useful to be able to see the print and abort it, certainly. I’m still in the process of getting an Octoprint server up and running to be able to do just that. Being able to do stuff while the job is in progress would be much more useful than simply knowing when it’s finished.
I presume you’d need to hook into something like Octoprint?
Yes, #octoprint is the base of all the features 
Yes as an octoprint addon I think it would be awesome!
Would you need to allow incoming connections to the Raspberry Pi with Octoprint from the Internet? How to authenticate and encrypt?
@Marcus_Wolschon It works with a common messenger. Don’t ask me about what ports it uses, but I think it will be no different to whatsapp or similar…
I use octoprint and telegram plugin and it works very well. Seems to do all you described.
@Ivan_Tarozzi
me too . Just my smartwatch is currently broken.
There is a Pebble app called OctoControl that is similar.
I don’t know pebble app, I use android apps with my smartphone and tablet when I am at home, connected to my lan. Advantage using telegram bot is that you can control and send messages to octoprint whenever you are, without exposing ports over Internet, nor configuring port forwarding
Pebble apps run on the Pebble smart watch
I would definitely love the ability to tell the app to send me a snapshot of my print every X layers. Android wear fan though. I’m not familiar with telegram I’ll have to look that up.
@Adam_Steinmark
The Octoprint Telegram Plugin already does that.
This would be awesome to have on android wear
Can somebody address this Kimberly Wright post? Completely unacceptable.
@Kimberly_Wright keep your language decent please.
Just mark it as spam, I did.