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Great news!
The app is now ready to be tested by everyone!

• If you have an iOS device, iPhone/iPad/Watch, please let me know your Apple ID to be invited to the TestFlight.
• If you have Android mobile or tablet, I will send you a link to download an APK.

Please send me a direct chat or preferably join the Discord https://discord.gg/tZqeXARwp4 and find the links there.

I would love to get lots of feedback, and seeing the custom screens that you will build!
Many more tiles will come soon to add on your screens.

A sneak peek on the latest version. Now with Apple Watch included.

The mobile screen is totally configurable and you can add as many screens and tiles as you want, and mix up from multiple printers.

This is getting close for a public beta launch .

To keep you updated, this is what I've manage to do so far on my spare time. The app side-by-side with DWC.

@nightowl999 Thank you for the kind words. To answer your question about connectivity, the app should work regardless if it is duet ethernet or wifi, as long as it does a direct connection to the board and not via external raspberry pi.

Now with the RRF3.4 and a new network protocol, I am considering updating the app to this version which I believe will last many more years in compatibility.
I will keep everyone posted about the progress.
Thanks.

Hello,

I've been searching for months for a native app for Duet3D/RepRapFirmware printers but I didn't find anything.
Octoprint has plenty of them but it still requires another server connected permanently to the printer. It's ok, I've done that on Arduino based printers for many years, but its another moving part that requires constant maintenance. With Duet3d I don't feel the need to have to maintain another server since the firmware is loaded with features and has much more than just GCode.
Nothing better than an App going directly to the awesome RRFirmware.

If you feel like me, can you please drop a reply answering: if you had a magic wand, what would you love to see in a native app for your Duet3d/RepRapFirmware printer?

Many thanks
Ni

Hello everybody,

Multiple people reached out to me directly asking to develop this app further.
It would be great to open up the development to anyone that is interested in contributing.

The app is built using Flutter, making it easier to work on any platform: iOS + Android + desktop + web. The code repository is open and welcomes contributors, and administrators. https://bitbucket.org/reprapp/reprapp/

The initial (and current) version, is a view only interface that displays data from multiple printers, in a flexible UI.

There are plenty of features that can easily be added to make this a very compelling application for 3D printing, laser and CNC as well. Many are quite obvious and multiple people already identified them, and others are cool ideas that come from our ongoing Duet3d experiences.
Feel free to list them on the issues page: https://bitbucket.org/reprapp/reprapp/issues

I look forward to bring this up to date and many more people using the app.

All the best.

@fractalengineer said in Native App for Duet3d/RRF - Wishlist:

@nomukaiki With that new RRF update would you consider bringing SBC compatibility to the app?

Yes absolutely

@pro3d if you didn't set the IP address static, on the board side or on the router, then I guess that you were lucky to have the same assignment for 4 years!

I definitely recommend to set the static IP address (I do it at the router side for convenience).

Or you can leap frog a few years in network modernisation and access the printer via its mDNS name, which is the same name you gave on the config file: M550 P"myprintername" ; http://myprintername.local/
But again, you need to ensure that the name is unique on the network.

I had nothing better to do, so I went ahead and manually fixed all the details of the /sys files to work with the default configuration of the Troodon 300.

Here is the gist of my config.g: https://gist.github.com/nomukaiki/31571fcbb0474f4bf1351e45d5c1bbcd
Please suggest any changes if you find anything not optimal.
And if anyone needs the other files as well do let me know.

bed.g
config.g
config.json
deployprobe.g
filaments.csv
heightmap.csv
homeall.g
homex.g
homey.g
homez.g
pause.g
resume.g
retractprobe.g
sleep.g
stop.g
tfree0.g
tpost0.g
tpre0.g

@Sindarius said in Native App for Duet3d/RRF - Wishlist:

I started work on a flutter app to control my printers

This is great. Hopefully I will manage to go a bit further. I am focusing first on the application core (network, data layer, reactive services, etc) and then will do the UI. But I also got the basics working quickly, so there is hope

With the RRF 3.4 these problems seem to have gone.
Can this thread be marked as resolved to help anyone that is searching the forum?

@chrishamm oh this is really useful, it will make my life much easier! Many thanks!
But kudos to you the vue code is well structured and also easy to grasp quickly (I'm doing good progress on my spare time). Well done.

Your old Android app seems to have everything that one could wish from an app. I wonder what people see better on the alternatives that require Octoprint than a direct connection? Any info about this would help me focus on the areas that people really need.
Cheers.

Config files are now available on https://github.com/Duet3D/RRF-machine-config-files/tree/master/Vivedino Troodon 300

I get a warning when the board restarts with the message:

Driver 9 error: over temperature shutdown, phase A short to ground, phase B short to ground

I didn't manage to fix this, and I doubt it is an hardware problem.
It doesn't seem to cause any issues when printing, but it is annoying to see.

Any improvements and suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks

@chrishamm I'm building it on Flutter which deploys for: iOS, Android, Web, MacOs.
The good thing is that from my early prototype I am able to run it with nice performance on very old mobile devices. I'm using my old daughter's 1st generation iPad and finally I found a good use for it.

I see that you both are administrators. I could really use some details about the network protocol of the firmware. I am reverse engineering the requests that I do directly to my boards and also the source code of DuetWebControl. But maybe you do have some docs about it?

Thanks.

@baird1fa If you are still looking for the upgrade, I'm happy to share with you my configuration files.
I am running my Troodon 300 with pretty much default hardware, expect that I have upgraded with direct drive.
My RRF firmware is 3.4.4

Now on an Android 7'' tablet. Looks a bit big but I'll sort out the sizes and styling after getting all the features in!

Any droid users out here?! Send me PM and I'll share an APK for you to start playing around. The app is read only yet, but allows multiple printers.

@1997alex said in Native App for Duet3d/RRF - Wishlist:

@nomukaiki that would be nice to be able to access the web control through a IOS device. If your using a rpi with your duet would the app be useful or it would mainly be for those who use the duet in standalone configuration?

The app will still work with or without a rpi. It connects directly to the duet firmware.
I find the app useful because it is native on the mobile and it will be more efficient on the interaction, communication control, multiple printers, notifications, possible to use AR, etc

@jay_s_uk I've added a new log view that will allow better understanding of the network communication with your printers.

The 1st version of the app is now live on each store:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nomukaiki.dac

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/duet-app-control/id1548032260

Minimum compatible mobile versions:
Android: 6.0 Marshmallow - API Level 23
iOS: 9.3

Duet compatibility:
RRF version: 2.x, 3.x
Connectivity: Direct board IP address, wifi or ethernet. The app does not connect to SBC servers.