KlipperRPC is an independent project that I made over the course of about an hour, expect HORRIBLE, BODGED TOGETHER CODE... and issues, of course!
KlipperRPC allows you to flex on all your Discord friends that you own a 3D printer and know how to use it. In all seriousness, KlipperRPC is an application that uses the Klipper web APIs to display information about your printer as a neat little rich presence widget on your profile, letting all your friends know how awesome you are.
- Proper config file(s)
- Better, more awesome customization features
- Snapshot uploading to Imgur with a "View snapshot" button embedded in the rich presence widget
- This requires an API key and I really don't wanna do all thattttt
- By the way, I did the math. Imgur's daily image rate limits should allow for a snapshot every ~70 seconds
- Make the code somewhat readable
- Rewrite entire application, probably
All these other really awesome repos have origin stories, so I'll try that out...
I was just getting done making another horrible project of mine, a Flask app that lets me press keyboard shortcuts via an API, so I can do all sorts of things with shortcuts on my phone, like muting, deafening, disconnecting, or screen sharing in Discord! Then, I realized another project of mine that I wanted to get done that night. You see, many hours earlier, I had gone to my local Goodwill and found a MASSIVE water bottle, of course, I had to buy it. But unbeknownst to me, the most terrible, inhumane, downright VILE tragedy would happen to me right as I got home... The bottle didn't fit in the cup holder on my backpack... OH THE HUMANITY! "I must rectify this immediately!" I thought to myself. Anyway, after that, I forgot about it for a while. (But not without realizing that these cool little flavored water bottle filter thingies screw right onto it, that's pretty neat.) Anyway, after I used a measuring tape that was probably used by seamstresses in the 1920's to measure the bottle, modeled a (not so) little cup holder for it, and then sliced it, I realized that the full print would take around 6 hours, it was already 9 PM and I REALLY didn't wanna leave my printer running while I slept, the only fire extinguisher in my house is through a door... behind the printer. (also, I don't really trust it yet) So, to fix this, I made a mini version that was just the footprint of the model just to test the dimensions of the container cradling apparatus, still, this would take around about an hour to complete...
Hello little cupholder!
Whatever, I usually stay up late, anyway. So I went ahead and started the print, and after chasing my cat out of the room in fear she would sit on the printer and burst into flames, I began looking for something to do to pass the time, after about 3 minutes of YouTube, I got bored and looked through Discord, so bored in fact, I was looking at MY OWN PROFILE... And that's when it hit me. Seeing that Visual Studio Code rich presence on my profile made me think. "Why can't my 3D printer do that?" and after a bit of searching to see if anyone else had thought this same thought, I began making a new folder on my AWESOME DRIVE™ called "KlipperDiscordRPC", and began writing the most terrible, drafty code known to man. After a while of browsing the Klipper web API docs, I found some endpoints that had the information that I wanted. I then implemented them "gracefully" and had a working prototype (production ready code) by the time the print was finished. Oh, and when I wrote this README, I made the final name, "KlipperRPC".
You'll need...
- discordrp
- pyyaml
- requests
That's it.