This is a hard fork of the great PrintWatch Card with my own take on it (it looks different).

PrintWatch Card

A feature-rich Home Assistant card for monitoring and controlling your P1S 3D printer. Get real-time updates on print progress, temperatures, material status, and more with a sleek, user-friendly interface.

Features

• 🎥 Live camera feed
  • Uses native HA streaming for camera.* entities (e.g. Generic Camera)
  • Uses configurable refresh rate for image.* entities
• 📊 Print progress tracking with layer count and estimated completion time
• 🎨 AMS/Material status visualization including current filament
• 💡 Quick controls for chamber light and auxiliary fan
• ⏯️ Print control buttons (pause/resume/stop) with confirmation dialogs
• 🎛️ Speed profile monitoring and control
• ⚡ Local API (LAN Mode)
• 🌑 Native Theme support
• 🌡️ Real-time temperature monitoring and control for bed and nozzle
• 📷 G-Code preview image (requires HA Bambu Lab plugin update)
• 🏷️ Display print weight and length details -🌍 Localization support (initial translations in German, more contributions welcome!) pa

Prerequisites

• Home Assistant
• P1S Printer integration configured in Home Assistant using ha-bambulab plugin
• Required entities set up (see Configuration section)
• For streaming: the built-in Home Assistant stream integration must be enabled
• Camera entity must be a Generic Camera entity (.camera.* or .image.*)

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Navigate to HACS
2. Tap 3 buttons in top right and select custom repositories
3. Paste https://github.com/Crapy/printwatch-card and select dashboard
4. Save
5. Select printwatch-card in HACS listing and click download
6. Navigate to settings and install card if needed there.
7. Restart Home Assistant
8. Clear Browser cache if using previous version

Configuration

Add the card to your dashboard with this basic configuration:

Configuration

Add the card to your dashboard with this basic configuration:

type: custom:printwatch-card
printer_name: P1S
camera_refresh_rate: 1000  # Refresh rate in milliseconds (1 second)
print_status_entity: sensor.p1s_print_status
current_stage_entity: sensor.p1s_current_stage
task_name_entity: sensor.p1s_task_name
progress_entity: sensor.p1s_print_progress
current_layer_entity: sensor.p1s_current_layer
total_layers_entity: sensor.p1s_total_layer_count
remaining_time_entity: sensor.p1s_remaining_time
bed_temp_entity: sensor.p1s_bed_temperature
nozzle_temp_entity: sensor.p1s_nozzle_temperature
bed_target_temp_entity: number.p1s_bed_target_temperature
nozzle_target_temp_entity: number.p1s_nozzle_target_temperature
speed_profile_entity: select.p1s_printing_speed
ams_slot1_entity: sensor.p1s_ams_tray_1
ams_slot2_entity: sensor.p1s_ams_tray_2
ams_slot3_entity: sensor.p1s_ams_tray_3
ams_slot4_entity: sensor.p1s_ams_tray_4
ams_slot5_entity: sensor.p1s_ams_tray_5
...
camera_entity: image.p1s_camera
cover_image_entity: image.p1s_cover_image
pause_button_entity: button.p1s_pause_printing
resume_button_entity: button.p1s_resume_printing
stop_button_entity: button.p1s_stop_printing
chamber_light_entity: light.p1s_chamber_light
aux_fan_entity: fan.p1s_aux_fan
print_weight_entity: sensor.p1s_print_weight
print_length_entity: sensor.p1s_print_length

Troubleshooting

Common Issues

1. Card not appearing

   • Check that all required entities exist and are correctly named
   • Verify resources are properly loaded in HA

2. Camera feed not updating

   • Ensure camera entity is properly configured

3. Controls not working

   • Verify that your user has proper permissions for the entities
   • Check that button entities are available and not in an error state

4. G-Code preview not appearing

   • Ensure you have the latest version of the HA Bambu Lab plugin
   • Enable G-Code preview in the plugin settings

5. Localization issues

   • Some translations are AI-generated; if you notice errors, consider submitting improvements!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

Support

If you're having issues, please:

1. Check the Troubleshooting section above
2. Search existing GitHub issues
3. Create a new issue if your problem isn't already reported

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Greg Hesp maker of ha-bambulab without this plugin wouldn't work
• Thanks to all P1S users who provided feedback and testing
• Inspired by the great Home Assistant community

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