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title: OctoTray description: Linux PyQt tray application to control OctoPrint parent: 3d-printing position: 35 comments: true github: https://git.xythobuz.de/thomas/OctoTray

date: 2021-05-08

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To quickly print new stuff on one of my printers, I am using the OctoPrint integration of PrusaSlicer. Unfortunately, it does not allow me to turn on the printers power supply using the Raspberry Pi. But it is possible to do that via the OctoPrint REST API. Because of that, I wrote a small tool to trigger the power of my printers that lives in the system tray. It runs on Linux using the Python Qt5 bindings.

You can find the project on my Gitea server or on GitHub.