support for binary gcode#311

The support of binary gcode (*bgcode) like the files that prusa slicer creates, would be really nice.

It should be supported already. I use .bgcode file all the time. The only issue I know of right now is searching for .bgcode files in during upload will not show them. If you drag and drop the file on the start print modal page it should work.

yeah you are right. It seems the bgcode gets converted to normal gcode when uploaded.

still, would be nice, to keep the bgcode uploaded as it is, since the binary file is much smaller

You’re both right! So, we have bgcode support, and have had for a while. Right now, we indeed convert your bgcode files on upload, to just gcode, if you don’t have a printer that is on the “Direct Prusa Integration” setup, where our custom firmware on the newer Prusa printers connect to our platform directly, without needing a Pi with OctoPrint.

Now, when we originally made this, OctoPrint didn’t allow for bgcode files to be uploaded. Since then, I do believe a “bgcode support” plugin has been released.

So, we could in theory stop converting the files to Gcode even when you don’t use our Direct Prusa Integration (which is currently in closed beta), if you have said plugin.

We’ll look into it for sure :)

actually just found out this:

when I upload the file by drag & drop and drop it on the upper area of the files browser, it gets converted to gcode and is supported for printing on prusa with octoprint

when I drop it in the bottom half, and the pop up appears and asks, if to save, print or queue, and I click “save”, It then gets saved as “bgcode”.

And when I print that bgcode, it says, that the file type is not supported

I can confirm that when you print directly from the computer file it works fine. But when you either queue or print from the saved files on SiplyPrint it does in fact cause an error

Another update, our issue appeared to be that the file name was too long. Shortened it and the queued / saved on SimplyPrint file printed fine.

@Albert Møller Nielsen is there any max length requirment for file uploads?