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I recently looked into them. They seem shit. Dodgey outdated apps to make them work and such.
Too bad it should be the simplest way to add wifi file transfer to a 3d printer
I'd rather just have an ethernet port on the damn printer. You shouldn't have to cludge together basic network device functionality on devices that expensive
It's better to just install klipper on a pi or other SBC
At least my 3d printer was so inexpensive it's silly.
I'm pretty happy that the engineering team that built it doesn't need to worry about networking code and maintaining a networked device. Jappy that an open source community does it instead.
I like my simple one. I can do all kinds of hacky bullshit to make it do whatever I want. When you start introducing more things like Wi-Fi/ethernet you start getting locked in to their ecosystem. Which I guess is fine for a lot of people who don't mind that but I can hook mine up to a laptop or pi if I want to add networking to it.
I tried them with a few different cameras. They sucked. They wouldn't reliably connect to Wi-Fi, and they didn't reliably upload images.
That's another reason why they're kinda dead now. Closeted apps they have to maintain just to keep that garden walled, and it was a cost they decided they also didn't want to spend.