Recently I decided to set up my Octoprint again with my Ender-3, but this time I used a touchscreen from my older brother. This time when setting up, I installed a couple of new plugins I have never used before. An Octoprint plugin is a way for the community to make changes and fixes with some fun tweaks.
One of the plugins I installed was called Octoslack. Octoslack is a way for the printer to let you know that a print is either finished, started, failed, or canceled. Without you having to check the printer 24/7. It was surprisingly easy to set up with Discord as a Discord Bot. So far, this is an amazing plugin when it finishes or starts a print. It attaches a picture of the 3d printer via the night vision camera I installed onto the printer. It works with Slack (thus Octoslack as the name) “Mattermost, Pushbullet, Pushover, Rocket. Chat, Discord, Riot/Matrix, or Microsoft Teams.” You can also add custom actions to notify you by entering the part of the GCODE that you want it to notify you, for example. You could have it notify you by using the GCODE which means go to the corner of the bed, or when it goes up by a certain height, it will notify you with the message you set it to.
Overall I really like this plugin. It’s handy and is pretty. Fun to know when a print is finished even if I’m not home.