Printoid for OctoPrint

The concept of “bug-free” apps is a myth that hasn’t been proved yet. Regardless of how simple your mobile application is, there are always some users who would experience issues because of unforeseen circumstances. It is almost impossible to reproduce a particular bug in controlled environment that means developers rely on the information provided by … More Trick #19: How to report a crash of the app to the developer

Printoid PRO and PREMIUM can manage as many OctoPrint servers has you want. Once you’ve added at least 2 OctoPrint profiles in the app, you will probably want to be able to switch between them. Two solutions: 1/ Switch profile from the OctoPrint profiles panel Open the OctoPrint profiles panel from the left menu. Select … More Trick #18: Easily switch between OctoPrint profiles

Hello v8.01! Last week I had a reflection about Printoid Trial. Should I keep the “trial” and “pro” concept like actually, or should I change it to another model. I thought about adding some ads to the Trial version, but with the same version than the actual Pro one. This way, users would be able … More Version 8.01 (07/21/2017)

Printoid v8 is finally here! After the 3 past months, working on the user experience and general design, here is the new generation of the app. Printoid v8 will be focused on the performances and the missing features. Be sure I will integrate all your requests, and try to make the most powerful app ever! … More Version 8.00 (07/07/2017)

Printoid PRO reached its 500th review on Google Play! Remember, two months ago the 400th review was reached 😉 More than 91.4% are 5 ⭐ reviews (more than 89% 2 months ago, +1.4%) Less than 7% are 4 ⭐ reviews (about 8% two months ago, -1%) Less than 1.6% are 3 ⭐ and less reviews … More 🎉 500 reviews on Printoid PRO!

A lot of parts has been redesigned to produce a more modern app 🙂 You can also, with this release, directly stream your timelapse videos using VLC (the VLC application needs to be installed now in order to play the timelapses, since Android does not support natively the MJPEG videos format…) Finally, this version is … More Version 7.14 (30/06/2017)

Printoid has highly increased its visibility on Google and the Internet in general since the last weeks! Glad and proud to see more than 100k results, with a great visibility on the first results page: First link is the official website, with shortcuts to the main pages Second is the most viewed & important tutorial … More Printoid is now more visible on Google

A ton of enhancements in this new version! After one day trying to build this version for Android 8.0, the update is now available! [ERRATUM] Of course it’s the v7.13, not the v7.18 as previously indicated in the title 😉 1/ A new widget in Printoid! A lot of you are using Printoid to manage … More Version 7.13 (06/21/2017)

Quick comparison between the app design 1 year ago, and the app design today! The app icon The main interface The streaming panel The custom commands panel The OctoPrint profiles settings The main interface (in portrait)

The first stable version of Printoid goes out the 20th of June, 2016! So… Printoid turns 1 today! One year to develop Printoid, it’s… 7 major versions published 147 stable versions published on Google Play (~12 iterations per month) 1100 hours of work (~3 hours of work per day – or night!) 2116 patches on … More 🎁 Printoid turns 1 today!

Printoid allows you to adjust a huge set of parameters in order to enhance your experience with the app. But I’ve understood that a lot of you didn’t took any look at them, whereas their feature request were already present in Printoid. So, here is a complete tutorial, describing each settings of each categories! https://printoid.net/adjusting-the-settings/

Three major features in this new release! 1/ The history of your last successed/failed prints I’ve integrated a new plugin in the extended files manager: a view to show you your last successed/failed prints in a timeline. That’s really (really) useful for those who are managing a lot of files on their OctoPrint server / … More Version 7.12 (06/08/2017)

Since the first release of Printoid on June of 2016, I’ve received more than 1200 emails from the entire world. That’s amazing! I didn’t expect such enthusiasm from the OctoPrint community! I’ve let your the possibility to send me your messages at any time on my personal email address, but it’s finally pretty hard for … More [IMPORTANT] The new email address to contact the developer

I usually post on Printoid.net the different videos I found on YouTube talking about OctoPrint and Printoid. But today, here is a great & short review made by Werner (also know as TinkerCave), a 3D maker, about the main features of the app! Thanks a lot to him for its great work and contribution to … More 🇩🇪 Werner (a.k.a TinkerCave) has made a great review of Printoid on YouTube

Printoid offers you an exclusive feature: the floating icon to start your video streaming(s) from any screen on your phone, as Facebook Messenger does with its chat bubbles. ENABLE THE FLOATING ICON The first time you open the streaming view in Printoid, the app will ask you if you want to enable the floating icon … More Trick #17: How to use the streaming floating icon

Some of you wont use the sliders to adjust the ventilation / temperatures / parameters values. Printoid let you use another way to send that kind of commands: the input dialog. Pretty easy to use.   1/ Open the input dialog To open the input dialog, you have to: Click on the icon above the … More Trick #16: Type your own fan/temperature/parameter values

After two weeks working on this, here comes the new files manager! This update takes part of the improvement of the interface I’ve started with Printoid 7. Why a new file manager? Your files are the center of Printoid & OctoPrint. That’s why I wanted to make the manager greater and smarter. With its new … More Version 7.11 (05/26/2017)

Since Printoid v6, I’ve introduced a very useful feature for who encounters some issues with the connection to OctoPrint: the ability to directly send me the connection logs.   Why it is useful for me In fact, you can send me a message if ever you can’t connect Printoid to your OctoPrint server, there is … More Trick #15: How to send your connection logs to the developer

Hi everybody! New pace of updates: one release each 10 days. So you will get now 3 versions of Printoid per month. I think its is better for everyone: less updates to do for you, less work for me, and last but not least more time to perform the tests before releasing the app. Since … More Version 7.10 (05/21/2017)

Since a few days, Google is spreading a silent update of the Google Play app and associated services. Unfortunately, this update seems to break a lot of license links with some Printoid installations. Fortunately, only a few users have encountered this issue (less than 1%). Why Printoid embeds a licensing system: that’s because a lot … More Trick #14: The app says “invalid license” but I’ve purchased the app