Metusalem

Thank you for the reply! What you write makes sense. Thanks for all you efforts with this little gadget! Just for fun I used it to connect an extra camera to one printer. It worked (albeit the port numbering made things a tiny bit awkward 🙂 ). We are probably not going to use that anyway as we already have external cameras above each printer looking down. These are all connected to another computer. I agree that all of these features should preferably be part of the firmware. My current workaround is that I have instructed all the usual suspects to never ever hit that "upgrade" button again.

Sure, I am happy to clarify. Yes, after the upgrade to 8.x we saw an avalanche of CRC errors on the switch. We tried different switch ports and different cables etc. until we were sure the Ultimaker was the source of the problems. We also saw the internal video camera became sluggish, sending jobs to the printer took a long time for small jobs and never finished for larger jobs. The web interface was also intermittently unresponsive. Our local Ultimaker rep was not able to explain the reason for the issue, but we agreed to go back to older firmware. First we tried an earlier 8.x without any noticeable difference. Going back to 7.1.3 was a bit more involved but solved our problems. I highly recommend that at this moment. The 8.x actually was a bit crippled in features, so we had double reason to go back. Fortunately, I am a bit careful with new versions, so I tend to upgrade one printer first and let it run for a while. The problem therefore affected only one printer. Hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to ask for further clarification!

Thank you gr5! We have no interest in the cloud services. We did "upgrade" one printer to the latest 8.x version and ran into serious troubles, including the need to use USB for large jobs (due to the network errors). We do a lot of remote management, so USB is not really a practical option for us, though we still use SD-cards on the old but reliable UM2+. It does not get as much use as the networked printers though. It was a daunting task to get the printer back to 7.1.3 but now all is well again. They will remain there for the foreseeable future. Kudos to Smithy for further improving the usefulness of these printers!

Excellent work Smithy! The clearbed function alone is worth it. I wish this (and other) functions were part of the web GUI! Your command line UI is a useful substitute. Some other features I would like to have: - A setting to hide firmware update prompts. I.e. no "printer tasks pending" symbol unless there are other tasks pending than a firmware upgrade. - A way to (permanently) remove the ad for the cloud service in the web GUI. This sometimes appear on the Management console page and takes up valuable screen space. Also, it does risk someone accidentally clicking the button. - A way to download the gcode/ufp file for a job in the queue or history. The file is obviously stored on the printer as you can resubmit it. In some cases when we have had problems, Ultimaker has asked us for the exact gcode file used when the problem occurred. The best place to fetch it would be from the history. Until now we have saved jobs to file as we have sent them, but that is of course a method prone to human errors. - A way to set the title of the Management Console web GUI page. This is useful when managing multiple printers with each printer in separate tabs in the browser. That worked nice when the printer name was the first part of the title. Then you can easily click the tab for the printer you want to check/manage. I have recently seen that the first part is the word "Ultimaker", which is not helpful at all. If we could set our own text, that would be nice. Perhaps even allowing %printername% to be replaced with the actual name of the printer. If any of these are trivial to implement in UltiTuner, feel free to add them to your idea list! Good luck!