u/Dragongeek

Just wanted to know if anyone knows if updates to modernize PrusaLink are in the pipeline? It's lagging behind quite a bit and hasn't had an update for a while (years)?

For example:

• Manual controls are very limited
• Better temperature features would be nice for preheating and monitoring target temp
• More status information on what the printer is doing at the moment
• Information about what nozzle is configured eg CHF, hardened, etc. and what material is loaded

but above all I really want the feature where you can stream bgcode to start printing before file transfer is completed, a feature exclusive to Connect.

Right now, wirelessly transferring a file takes so long that it's pointless because of the internal write speed--im not gonna wait a literal half hour rather than simply getting the stick and doing it manually.

My dream, of course, is on-premise Prusa Connect... but with this one feature I'd already be very happy.

I'm currently building a dashboard so that I can manage a bunch of printers from a single location, over the network, without a cloud and I'm having some big issues with file transfer speed. I'm using the PrusaLink interfaces which (besides being dated as hell) are... ok I guess, but they're functional (when prusalink update? Last update seems to be 2023

The real issue I'm having is slow transfers, specifically from my computer to the printer's USB stick. Like, I upload the file, and then I can see the progress symbol on the Core One screen, and it slowly ticks up in percentage points before it finally prints. It's functional, but it's soooo slow. We're talking 5 to 15 minute upload times for 20-30 MB g-code files which is ridiculous as if I do the walk with the USB stick, the transfer is essentially instant and the network itself also isn't the bottleneck (it's theoretically gigabit ethernet).

So, is anyone else experiencing slow local network transfer speeds, particularly over ethernet?