POST /printers/{id}/clear-plate answered 400 "Printer not connected" for
anything without a live MQTT client, and the printer card hid the button
under the same condition. With Auto Power Off that is the ordinary end of
every print: the reporter's log has printer 1 marked offline at 12:00:55
by the plug and the clear-plate POST rejected at 12:03:12, with the plate
already cleared by hand. Nothing could release the gate short of powering
each printer back on, clearing, and switching it off again.
Nothing in the clear path talks to the printer. set_awaiting_plate_clear
writes an in-memory set and the printers.awaiting_plate_clear column, and
that column exists precisely so the gate survives an Auto Off cycle
(#961). The guard came in with the endpoint in aa87e5598, copied from the
stop/pause/resume handlers beside it, where reaching the printer is the
whole point. The scheduler already reads the flag off a powered-off
printer - it refuses to wake one that is still gated - and the wiki
recommends the MQTT topic for automations because it does not depend on
the printer being powered on. Only the write path disagreed.
The card follows: showClearPlateButton drops the connection term, and the
expanded-view button - which lived inside the block that renders nothing
without a live status - is shared and given its own slot below it. The
bulk filter tests clearPlate before the connection filter; every other
bulk action still needs to reach the machine. The plate pill stays
connected-only, since its only render site is inside that same block.
Two things on the same path needed the flag without a client. GET /status
returned the schema default for a printer with no cached state - manually
disconnected, or not yet reconnected after a restart - reporting a clean
plate the database disagreed with, and hiding the control on exactly the
printers that needed it. And _emit_plate_clear_change bailed when the
printer info cache was empty, which would have left the retained
plate_clear topic (#2525) asserting "awaiting" after the gate was
released; it now falls back to the row.
This does not dispatch to an unreachable printer: _is_printer_idle still
requires a connection. Releasing the gate is what lets the queue switch
the printer on for the next job instead of passing it over.
mqtt_relay reads state.left_aux_fan_speed, but the SimpleNamespace fixture in
test_plate_clear_mqtt_notification enumerates its fields explicitly, so the two
status-payload tests raised AttributeError. I updated the equivalent fixture in
test_printer_manager_status_broadcast and missed this one — running only the
touched suites is what hid it.
Also addresses the round-2 review notes:
- exhaust_fan_present: documented that the H2 series reports part 3 too, so the
flag is not model-specific despite the name.
- Mask the part id after shifting, matching get_flag_bits(id, 4, 8), for
consistency with the state decode. No behaviour change for any observed id.
- Noted the unmapped H2 id 6 beside the id branches.
- Reject fan=aux2 when the printer reports no left_aux_fan_speed, so a POST
against an A1 no longer sends M106 P10 for absent hardware. The UI already
hid the badge; this closes the same hole on the API.
- Added a test asserting EXHAUST_FAN_LABEL_MODELS and the frontend's
MODELS_WITH_EXHAUST_LABEL cannot drift apart.
When a print reaches a terminal state Bambuddy holds the queue until
someone confirms the build plate is clear. That gate was visible only in
the Web UI: the printer's own MQTT push reports nothing beyond RUNNING,
PAUSE, FAILED, FINISH and IDLE, so an external automation could not tell
"finished" from "finished and still waiting for a human".
The per-printer status topic now carries an awaiting_plate_clear field,
and every transition is additionally published on a new retained topic,
bambuddy/printers/{serial}/plate_clear. Retained, and published from the
flag itself rather than from printer telemetry: a subscriber learns the
state of every printer the moment it connects, and the state stays
correct after Auto Off powers a printer down - telemetry stops there,
which would otherwise leave the status topic frozen at false.
Publishing is edge-triggered. The queue clears the gate on every
dispatch whether or not it was up, and no subscriber should see a
"plate cleared" for a plate that was never dirty. Persistence and the
WebSocket broadcast stay unconditional; they are idempotent and predate
this.
A matching Plate Clear Required notification event was added, off by
default on every provider because it fires after every print at the
same moment as the print-complete alert. Only the rising edge notifies.
Acknowledging still goes through POST /printers/{id}/clear-plate.
Two tests in test_printer_manager_status_broadcast.py asserted
_schedule_async.call_count == 2 for the setter. The new emission makes
it three on a transition, so they now assert that the persist and
broadcast coroutines are actually scheduled - which is the contract
Translated in all locales; wiki updated. Covered by backend and
frontend tests.
maziggy