Feature request: Automatic On/Off sensing

[LupoLoopy]

Hi!

Great plugin - very intuitive and works as needed, bar automation.

In an ideal world, I'd love it if this plugin was capable of turning a relay off upon print completion.

Would be great if the backend of this was ported into a child plugin for PSU control, or alternatively the automation/running detection features from that plugin ported into your plug-in.

Couldn't think of a way to reach out better than GitHub. Feel free to close this issue post-haste if it's beyond your appetite for developing this tool further.

Thanks

[abudden]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the feedback.

It does indeed sound like a good idea that this would be done, but I think it's probably beyond my abilities (or possibly just beyond what I've got time to do). I don't really have a need for turning a relay off at the end of a print (I just use it to control some lights, which I turn on/off manually when I want to look in on a webcam). I originally used GCODE System Commands to run a command line script to turn stuff on / off, but I wanted to have a button in OctoApp and that meant it needed to be a plugin.

I'll leave this open in case anyone (e.g. you 😊) wants to contribute any code to add this capability; alternatively I'm happy to help talk through porting it into a new plugin if you want to have a go. This was my first (and, so far, last!) ever attempt at a plugin for OctoPrint and it was mostly just a mish-mash of the two projects linked at the bottom of the README. As such it may be easier to base a PSU control child plugin on those source projects rather than basing it on mine.

All the best,

Al