Add pause function to API #168
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I can pause a print from a shell script using the OctoPrint API, like so:
echo '{"command": "pause" , "action": "pause"}' | curl -X POST -d @- -H "X-Api-Key: "$apikey"" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost/api/job
However, that doesn't send me an IFTTT notification! I want to be able to use the Enclosure Plugin API to generate the pause command, so that the IFTTT notification will happen. Can this be added? Or is there already a way to do this, that I'm missing?
Notification when paused it's not implemented yet, but my I ask why would it be needed? What I mean is, if you are pausing a print, using a button, or something else, why would you want a notification? you just pressed a button, so you know that you paused the print....
It's related to the filament motion sensor. I have a shell script that monitors an input for pulses, with a configurable timeout that will pause the print (via OctoPrint API) if pulses stop for longer than the timeout. I could kludge something together by driving a GPIO output with the script, tying that to an input that's monitored by the plugin, but the API would be cleaner.
The filament sensor part of the plugin already has a notification system, instead of building a Frankenstein to make it work it would be much better to implement on the plugin itself....
We have a couple of options:
You could do whatever implementation in python, for the encoder filament sensor, and send it to me so I can port to the plugin.
You could wait for me to do all the work and implement the encoder filament sensor part.
You could study the plugin architecture, implement and make a pull request.
You can make your implementation with shell scripts call another shell script or even concatenate the shell script to make ifttt to notify you, not that difficult, check this here
Keep in mind that I have a full time job and I work on this plugin as much as I can, but previous releases took me almost 2 months of weekends and late nights, I completely changed the architecture to make the plugin scalable and implemented a lot of new features. That is the only reason why I haven't invested more time on this new feature. I need to get more projects going, and there is only so much time that I have out of my full time job and other hobbies.
The command-line stuff for IFTTT may be the best option...I hadn't seen that info. I can then pause the print with the existing OctoPrint API, and send an IFTTT notification using the same config I'm using for the Enclosure Plugin. That will get me a functional filament motion detector, and maybe one of these days you can work it into the Enclosure Plugin. :) I completely empathize with the time constraint issue...if only my full-time job didn't get in the way of my hobbies...