Formlabs API Support#458

https://support.formlabs.com/s/article/Formlabs-API-developer-portal?language=en_US

Introduce monitoring and logging support for Formlabs equipment, starting with the Formlabs SLA printers. There is a web and local API. They already have some example applications: https://github.com/Formlabs/formlabs-api-python/blob/main/examples/hello-web-api.py

Have a formlabs 4L mixed with other FDM printers and also need this.

If this keeps gaining traction, it’s definitely something we’ll consider.

What’s currently keeping us from this is;

• Lack of demand
• Scope: SimplyPrint is quite cheap and our service usually caters to the cheaper printers. The more big and expensive, proprietary printers that we have to support, the more scattered our focus will be - it needs to really be worth it
• Hardware: we don’t have, nor have access to, any Formlabs equipment. We have tried developing integrations for hardware that we don’t have access to physically, doing it remotely, coding in the dark - and that’s not something we really wanna do again

For now, I’ll give a little shout-out to our open source Printer Client that anyone (with Python skills) can use to connect anything to SimplyPrint: https://github.com/SimplyPrint/printer-ws-client

If anyone is up for the challenge of coding this using our client (which handles all the “hard” stuff of actually connecting to SimplyPrint; you just feed it with information from the printer, and it’ll do the rest!), let me know and we can certainly help out and if the integration is good, we’ll implement it as an official integration for everyone to use.