Create an integration for Home Assistant#324

to have the ability to add printer sensors to HA Dashboards. There are printer specific integrations like the ha-bambulabs but it would be nice to have own SimplyPrint integration which can be not printer specific.

please that would be cool

I need this, to be able start my print directly from my ipad to my bambu lab printer.

@Vincent.bock and starting it directly via the SimplyPrint app on your iPad doesn’t do? Why does that require Home Assistant?

Because I have a Home Assistant setup anyways, would like to use as the bridge device to my Bambu Lab printer. A bridge device is always required to sent print g-code from simplyPrint to any printer, right?

Right, so your suggestion is to be able to host the SP Bambu Client on the HA device / run it via HA?

correct, ideally that would easy the setup of a bridge device, just by adding up the SW on my HA.

I neeeeeeed this now!!!! Bambulab integration is stupid!!!!!

Could someone who understands Home Assistant a bit better than me explain the hype behind this suggestion? I am unsure exactly what you want integrated: is it running the SimplyPrint Printer Client (prev. “SimplyPrint Bambu Lab Client”) via HA somehow, or would you want the SimplyPrint API to power using your printer via a SimplyPrint “widget” or whatever they’re called, through HA?

I’m not saying this is something we can put in the pipeline at the moment, but with this many upvotes we also don’t want to ignore it simply because we may not 100% understand it. The more context is added, the easier it is for us to know what you want us to build.

Community-memeber “yi5” has created this and shared it in our Discord server: https://github.com/0x796935/simplyprint-homeassistant - is it something like this you’re after? (source: https://discord.com/channels/699248047640805463/1264914504408629300/1518360465657434305)

For me personally it would be enough to just be able to run the SP Client via HA. Don’t know about the others tho

i have no problem with ruuning the client by side, i would like an integration - not app, so i have the data in h.a., not h.a. providing the data.