Or even head here to find our best 3D printer for beginners. In the meantime if you want to find out so much more about PC Guide’s deep-dive into the world of 3D printing click here. It would have been easy to call it RemotePrintingMonitor or something ultra-bland like that, but this is clearly more thought of as a ‘product’ rather than your regular bit of add-on code.Īnd that’s fine because unlike the majority of plugins, to get regular use from the Spaghetti Detective it’s going to cost you some money, but more on that later. Oh hello Spaghetti Detective, it’s very nice to meet you.įirst off the bat, I appreciate the name of this addon to Octoprint – I’m not going to call it a plugin because it is much more than that and that would do it a disservice. If only there was a plugin that could use AI to monitor my camera feed and look for issues and pause my print and send me a text message if things go awry.

I use Octoprint so I have already set up a webcam to monitor things but obviously, this doesn’t help when I am off in the land of nod. It’s happened four times now on the same piece but in different places so I’m confident there is nothing wrong with the model. Everything is fine until about nine hours in and then all of a sudden my extruder starts struggling to push through the filament and it’s driving me nuts as generally this failure is happening overnight and I’m getting up in the morning to a failed print.

I’ve been having issues with some of my longer prints recently. If you are just getting into the amazing world of 3D printing the likely things that annoy you most are the length of time it takes to print anything on the large side, and how infuriating it is when a print fails 10 hours into a 12-hour print or worse.

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