Keep track of your inventory of 3D-printer filament spools.
Spoolman is a web service that helps you keep track of your filament spools and how they are being used.
It is designed to be easily integrated into printer software such as Octoprint and Moonraker where these services can e.g. list available spools, report filament consumption, etc.
It exposes a REST API which backends can interact with. See the OpenAPI description for more information.
It also ships with a simple web-based UI that lets you manipulate the stored data, add filaments, etc.
The data can be stored in any of the following databases: SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, CockroachDB. By default, SQLite is used which is a simple no-install database solution that saves to a single .db file located in the server's user directory.
The easiest way to run Spoolman is using Docker. Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers. Containers are lightweight, portable, and self-contained environments that can run on any machine with Docker installed.
To install Docker on your machine, follow the instructions for your operating system on the Docker website. Docker also includes the docker-compose tool which lets you configure the container deployment in a simple yaml file, without having to remember all the command line options.
Here is a sample docker-compose config to get you started. Copy-paste it into a file called docker-compose.yml
and run docker-compose up -d
to start it. If you want to use the SQLite database as in this sample, you must first create a folder called data
in the same directory as the docker-compose.yml
, then you should run chown 1000:1000 data
on it in order to give it the correct permissions for the user inside the docker container.
version: '3.8'
services:
spoolman:
image: ghcr.io/donkie/spoolman:latest
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./data:/home/app/.local/share/spoolman
ports:
- "7912:8000"
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Stockholm # Optional, defaults to UTC
Once you have it up and running, you can access the web UI by browsing to http://your.ip:7912
.
If a new version of Spoolman has been released, you can update to it by first browsing to the directory where you have the docker-compose.yml
file and then running docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d
.
If you want to connect with an external database instead, specify the SPOOLMAN_DB_*
environment variables from the table below.
Variable | Description |
---|---|
SPOOLMAN_DB_TYPE | Type of database, any of: postgres , mysql , sqlite , cockroachdb |
SPOOLMAN_DB_HOST | Database hostname |
SPOOLMAN_DB_PORT | Database port |
SPOOLMAN_DB_NAME | Database name |
SPOOLMAN_DB_USERNAME | Database username |
SPOOLMAN_DB_PASSWORD_FILE | Path of file which contains the database password. This is more secure than using SPOOLMAN_DB_PASSWORD. |
SPOOLMAN_DB_PASSWORD | Database password |
SPOOLMAN_DB_QUERY | Query parameters for the database connection, e.g. set to unix_socket=/path/to/mysql.sock to connect using a MySQL socket. |
SPOOLMAN_LOGGING_LEVEL | Logging level, any of: CRITICAL , ERROR , WARNING , INFO , DEBUG , defaults to INFO . |
SPOOLMAN_AUTOMATIC_BACKUP | Automatic nightly DB backups for SQLite databases. Enabled by default, set to FALSE to disable. |
Moonraker has built-in support for Spoolman. See the Moonraker Documentation for more information.
To test out changes to the web client, the best way is to run it in development mode.
Prerequisities:
- NodeJS 16 or above installed, along with NPM. Running
node --version
should print a correct version. - A running Spoolman server, with the following two environment variables added in the
docker-compose.yml
:
environment:
- FORWARDED_ALLOW_IPS=*
- SPOOLMAN_DEBUG_MODE=TRUE
Instructions:
- Open a terminal and CD to the
client
subdirectory - Run
npm install
. If it doesn't succeed, you probably have an incorrect node version. Spoolman is only tested on NodeJS 16. - Run
echo "VITE_APIURL=http://192.168.0.123:7901/api/v1" > .env
, where the ip:port is the address of the running Spoolman server. This should create a.env
file in theclient
directory. If you don't already have one running on your network, you can start one up using thedocker-compose.yml
showed above. - Run
npm run dev
. The terminal will print a "Local: xxxx" URL, open that in your browser and the web client should show up. Your existing spools etc in your Spoolman database should be loaded in. - Any edits in .ts/.tsx files will be automatically reloaded in your browser. If you make any change to .json files you will need to F5 in your browser.