Notification improvements

We currently run a Form 3L and a Form 3+ each with their individual washing and curing stations. I want to recommend implementing Slack notifications. Prusa offers this, and it is really nice to be notified when a print is complete, or when an error has occurred and human intervention is required. We currently have a 3D-printing Slack channel that gets pinged when one of our printers completes a job. FormLabs offering just email and text notifications is behind the curve. Prusa also has Telegram notifications.

I also saw a couple other posts about washing and curing notifications. These should be software patches for you on the Form 3L hardware since those already require an internet connection. The smaller Form 3+ washing and curing stations would need to be upgraded with a WiFi connection to make notifications possible. Still very valuable just more work to implement.

How do large printer farms that use your tech have any efficient workflow without any notifications that a print is done washing or curing?

All great ideas! Thank you for explaining your use case.

One quick solution that you might try is Slack’s built-in ability to post to a channel by sending an email to a Slack-generated email address. I think you could put the generated email as a notification email in Dashboard and that may be a way to get Dashboard Slack notifications today. Link to Slack docs: Send emails to Slack | Slack

Thank you! I will give that a shot

@nelsonmic we’re also building a new API that will allow you to build this type of integration. Would you be interested in early access to it?

@hasank what models would this API be available to and is it free?

what models would this API be available to

@br4n_d0n I’m not sure what this means. Can you please clarify?

is it free?

Yes! Feel free to DM for early access (we will make it public soon anyways).

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@hasank I am interested in this new API. What do I need to do to get early access?

Will it work on the Form 2, Form 3, Form 3L, etc.

Will it work with the From 2, Form 3, Form 3L, etc. or only some of the newer models?

Could you please share the link to the API or GitHub repository?