[FEATURE REQUEST] Ability to schedule starting a print at a given date/time

[josedpedroso]

It'd be nice to be able to schedule printing a file already in the card (or sending a custom g-code command to the printer) at a specified date and time. Not sure how feasible that is, especially if ESP3D doesn't already have a global date/time, but as an alternative, being able to schedule the print or command to happen after some minutes, days, or hours, would still be useful. It'd also be nice to be able to set the schedule as one-shot or repeating.

[Luc]

what is the purpose of scheduling a job ? what is the user case?

[josedpedroso]

My printer is a bit noisy and I have it at my parents', so I'd like to avoid running it at night. However, I'm often not at home in the morning to start a job, so I may not be able to start long prints until I actually spend the night there. Scheduling would solve this for me, without having to setup remote access and without having to get up in the morning.

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[Luc]

so what you need is just starting time and not a repeating
In that case it is safer to use https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005004251720806.html because if your esp does not have internet and time may not be set it won't work
Just put you gcode file as init command in ESP3D or even in Printer Firmware init file

[josedpedroso]

As I said in the first message, even just scheduling for after some minutes/hours/days, without an absolute date/time, would still be helpful.

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On Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 00:50 Luc ***@***.***> wrote: so what you need is just starting time and not a repeating In that case it is safer to use https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005004251720806.html because if your esp does not have internet and time may not be set Just put you gcode file as init command in ESP3D or even in Printer Firmware init file — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1001 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AI5E2DYBOVICGYAIJ3CESW3YUFF5PAVCNFSM6AAAAABDNVJPWWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTSNJQGY3DGOBVGM> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Luc]

My todo list is already full of helpful feature requests so I need to sort them by "is it useful ?" "Does manyl people will use it ?" "Is there an existing solution ?"

So to be honest currently this FR would the last one

[josedpedroso]

I'm ok with that.

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[Cap'n Kleffa]

Launch macros on determinate time sounds very interesting, by now using macros or comands like "G4 S3600 ;" makes a solution to pause at some time, but have lit of limitations, some printers have lights, buzzers and noises that can easily activate/deactivate using macros on time, by now ESP3D has NTP so sontime should not be a gteat problem

[Luc]

nothing is difficult in programming, it's just a matter of spending time thinking about a problem and its solution and implementing the proper solution

so sure, PR is welcome