A job queued as "Any X1C" explains itself when it cannot start: the
model-based branch builds a reason for every candidate printer and puts it
on the row, so the queue shows "Busy: X1C-01" or "Waiting for filament:
X1C-02 (needs PETG)". The same job pinned to one printer showed nothing.
It sat at Pending with waiting_reason NULL for as long as that printer was
busy, which from the outside is indistinguishable from a queue that has
stopped working -- the reporter watched fourteen minutes of it while his
X1C ran a print he had started from its own screen.
The fixed-printer branch had six ways out and none of them wrote the field.
The sensor interlock (#1148) was its only writer, and it cleared the field
up front on every pass where no sensor was holding the printer, so NULL was
not an oversight on those paths but a guarantee.
Every exit now writes, through one helper. The reasons reuse the
model-based branch's vocabulary so _is_busy_only() keeps deciding what is
worth a notification: a printer that is printing, drying, or working
through the item ahead of this one reads as "Busy: <printer>" and stays
silent, because it resolves itself. A printer that is off with no Auto On
plug, and one whose plug could not switch it on, are worth saying.
A finished plate nobody has acknowledged is split out from plain busy and
named as itself. _is_printer_idle() returns the same plain False for that
and for a running print, but they are not the same thing to the person
looking at the queue: one clears itself and the other needs somebody to
walk over to the printer.
That notification fires on the transition into asking, where a busy-only
reason counts as not asking. Testing whether the item was waiting at all --
which is what the model-based branch does -- would never fire it here:
nobody's queue goes straight from idle to an unconfirmed plate, it waits
behind the print first. The cost is that a printer dropping offline,
returning busy and dropping again asks twice rather than once.
The interlock stays silent. It has never sent this notification, and a
change about what the queue displays is not the place to start.
Clearing the field up front is gone with it. It existed so a shut door
could not leave "Waiting on Enclosure Door" standing while the printer
stayed busy with something else, and the new rule carries that guarantee
instead -- whichever exit runs next overwrites it, and the dispatch path
clears it.
Two paths clear it that the report did not mention. A staged item and a
future-scheduled one skip before this branch and never reach it again, so
anything written on an earlier pass would outlive its condition for the
life of the row. That includes the filament-deficit check, which stages the
item itself.
The notification is wrapped: a queue that cannot say why it is waiting is
the bug being fixed, and a queue that stops dispatching because a provider
timed out would be a worse one.
On the frontend, the queue timeline drops any pending item carrying a
reason, on the grounds that such an item will not auto-dispatch. That held
while only the model-based branch wrote the field; "Busy: <printer>" is
now the commonest reason there is, and it describes the very chain the
timeline forecasts, so the rule would have emptied the view for anyone
whose queue is pinned. It now asks whether the reason needs the user, via
a small shared reader of the same shape the scheduler encodes.
Which job goes out, and when, is unchanged: running the previous scheduler
and this one over the same 768 states dispatches the same items in the same
order with the same statuses, across 1452 rows that now carry a reason.
Turning Shortest Job First on reordered the pending list and the
scheduler, and left the Timeline drawing the pre-SJF queue for good. It
chained each swimlane's bars by queue position alone and was never told
the setting existed -- so the one view whose whole job is to say when
each print will run was the one view answering for an order the
scheduler had no intention of using.
Bars now chain in the order the scheduler will dispatch: jumped items
first, then shortest print time with an unknown duration last, then
position. The starvation guard is visible there too, so a long print
that has finally come up reads as next rather than staying buried behind
every short job on the lane.
Three surfaces claim to show queue order -- the pending list, the "if
started now" ETA, and the Timeline -- and each had its own copy of the
comparator, which is how one of them came to be missing a whole clause.
They now share one, written against the scheduler's ORDER BY.
Grouping came along with it: the pending list folded a model name down
to its first character to build a lane key, so Any X1C and Any X2D both
landed on -88 (as did Any P1S and Any P1P) and the two lanes interleaved
into a single run of rows.
Backend untouched. The scheduler was dispatching correctly the whole
time; only the drawing of it was wrong.
The app was built dark-first, so hundreds of hardcoded Tailwind semantic
text/icon utilities at light shades (text-amber-400, text-blue-300, ...) had
no dark: variant. With darkMode:'class' they applied in light theme too,
producing washed-out text on pale tints and white cards — including the three
reported spots (AMS Drying banner, Archives no-3MF warning, debug-logging
banner). Give each a theme-aware pair: a darker readable shade in light theme
with the original pinned to dark:, so dark theme is unchanged. ~100 files.
The bambu-* CSS-variable palette (self-correcting) and the dark-only SpoolBuddy
kiosk are left untouched. Plain text-white is already theme-aware via the
existing index.css .text-white override, so it needed no changes.
Restructures the queue page around three tabs (Queue / History / Timeline)
and adds first-class batch grouping plus a real time-based timeline.
Queue tab
- Layout toggle: Sort by Position (flat list) or Group by Printer (per-
printer section cards with aggregate count / time / weight headers).
- Batch grouping: pending items sharing a batch_id render as a single
collapsible row with aggregate stats; children draggable within the
batch only. Per-batch collapse state in localStorage.
- Multi-drag: dragging any selected row moves all selected items as a
contiguous block via DragOverlay (+N ghost).
- Selection bar gains a Group as batch action when 2+ ungrouped items
are selected. Ungroup lives on the batch parent row.
History tab
- Two-line rich rows: filament color swatch + weight + type, user
attribution, inline error message on failed / skipped rows.
- Responsive 1 / 2 / 3 column grid so a long history uses available
width instead of stretching one row per line.
- Batch siblings group into a collapsible parent with status-rollup
chips (3 OK / 1 failed / etc).
- Thumbnail hover preview shows the full image at 192x192 next to the
small thumb.
Timeline tab
- Replaces the hourly-list view with a Gantt swimlane: one row per
printer (plus per target_model and unassigned), horizontal hour
axis, jobs as bars positioned by start time and sized by duration.
- Live NOW marker.
- Only committed schedules are rendered: currently printing items,
pending items with scheduled_time, and pending ASAP behind an active
print. Staged (manual_start), waiting (waiting_reason), and ASAP
jobs on idle printers are filtered out.
- 24h rolling window with 12h step controls.
- Per-bar tooltip with start, end, progress, batch name.
Backend
- POST /queue/batches creates a batch, optionally assigning existing
pending item_ids (manual grouping) or returning an empty batch the
client can attach to subsequent /queue/ POSTs.
- POST /queue/batches/{id}/ungroup clears batch_id from all members
(skipping items the caller does not own) and deletes the batch row
when no members remain.
- POST /queue/ accepts an optional batch_id and validates that the
batch exists, is active, and the caller may modify it. The existing
quantity > 1 auto-batch path still fires when no batch_id is sent.
PrintModal
- When N plates from one source are queued in a single submission
(model assignment or single printer), the modal pre-creates a batch
and passes its id to each addToQueue call so multi-plate jobs land
grouped automatically. Falls back to ungrouped items if the batch
pre-create fails.
Queue page redesign: compact stats bar replaces summary cards, color-
coded left borders for status scanning, collapsible history with
condensed rows, and a new production schedule timeline view (#823)
showing estimated completion times grouped by hour with filter tabs
and day navigation. i18n keys added for all 7 languages.
Fix plate thumbnails returning 401 in print modal when auth is enabled
(missing stream token). Fix schedule calendar picker opening off-screen
(hidden input positioned with sr-only instead of near the date field).
maziggy