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Phone alerts from your printers

Get a ping when a print is done or fails, and clear the plate from your phone so the next job starts.

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Layers3D can ping your phone when a print finishes, fails, runs low on filament or needs you. It works with the Bambu Handy app off.

Set it up

Go to Settings › Alerts to you › Phone pings and open Send phone notifications. Pick how they reach you under Send through:

  1. This app: open Layers3D on your phone and press Turn on for this device. On an iPhone, add it to your Home Screen first (Share › Add to Home Screen) and open it from there.
  2. ntfy: install the free ntfy app. Press Generate a private topic, then Save. In the ntfy app, tap +, paste the topic and subscribe.
  3. Pushover: paste your user key and an app token from pushover.net, then Save.

Press Send a test. Your phone should buzz within a few seconds.

Phone pings in Settings, set to send through ntfy, with a topic, Save and Send a test, and the Prints, Printer upkeep and Orders and money rows.

Pick what pings you

Three rows hold the switches. Prints: started, done, failed, stopped and printer errors. Printer upkeep: plate needs clearing, queue paused, filament low and a slice to approve. Orders and money: new orders, inquiries, accepted quotes and payments. Press Edit on one to change its words.

Clear the plate from your phone

When a print from the queue is done, on a printer that takes queue jobs, its ping has two buttons: Plate is clear and Not yet. Plate is clear opens this screen, with a fresh picture from the camera:

Is the plate on H2S-002 clear? A camera picture, three things to check, and Not yet or The plate is clear.

Look at the printer first. When the parts are off and the plate is back, press The plate is clear. If Send live is on and a job is waiting, the button says Plate is clear · start next and the next plate starts.

A failed print gets Clear and check and Needs repair instead. Clear and check asks for three ticks: the plate is clear, the nozzle is clean and no error is left on the screen. Then Ready for jobs.

The buttons show on ntfy and on Android. On an iPhone, tap the ping to open the same screen. Pushover has no buttons, so tap it too.

Let the camera help

On the Professional and Enterprise plans, Shop setup › Machines › Camera plate check can say when a plate looks clear, and look at the plate once more right before the queue starts a job by itself. If it sees something there twice, the job waits and your phone is told.

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