It seems as if the cura connect software is hosted on an embedded web server within the ultimaker firmware. Is there a way to not run it on the printer? If I have to re-start the "master" printer due to an error or crash, it seems to lose all sense of progress of the other printers, among other data. If I had it running in a VM on the same local network, it wouldn't matter which printer was on or off, and I could keep an external database, freeing resources from the actual printer CPU.
Has this been requested / contemplated before? I've search a bit, but all I see are references to some sort of cloud service. I'm thinking more of a downloadable set of software, like Cura itself, that can then be installed on a standard nginx / apache setup and used to manage my printers independent of cloud hosting or connectivity. (I mean, if it runs on the printer itself, surely one could even put it on an RPi4 or some such if a VM or actual server was not available... You could even print the case...)
Just a thought. Would be curious to know if I'm the only one looking for such a thing.
Thanks!