Hi, I have a plan on building a 3D Printing Farm, using an ERP software, OctoPrint and Node-RED. My main focus right now is to integrate Node-RED with OctoPrint, more specifically using Node-RED to trigger/click the 'Start Print' button on OctoPrint. I was thinking of using the 'http request' nod…

Although I have never used it, octoprint has a REST API: https://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/api/index.html So there is likely no need to "trigger/click the 'Start Print'" Possibly helpful: https://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/jsclientlib/job.html?highlight=start#OctoPrintClient.job.start

@devittobk It is absolutly doable. 1st you have the ability to use MQTT Plugin in octoprint to receive messages as there is an update for example. I found this much easier then doing HTTP requests in intervalls. Then you can do HTTP requests to do gcode commands. That is much easier than doing MQT…

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