With Auto Off enabled and another job queued, the smart plug cut power when a
print finished and immediately re-powered the printer because the scheduler
saw pending items. The printer booted fresh into IDLE and the next job
auto-dispatched, bypassing the "Clear Plate & Start Next" confirmation.
Root cause: the plate-clear gate lived only in PrinterManager._plate_cleared
(in-memory set) and _is_printer_idle treated IDLE as unconditionally idle. On
power cycle the in-memory flag was lost and the IDLE-on-boot state skipped
the gate entirely.
Fix:
- Replace the in-memory flag with an awaiting_plate_clear column on the
printers table, rehydrated into the PrinterManager at startup.
- Set the flag in on_print_complete for completed/failed prints (not user
cancellations); clear it on ack and on scheduler dispatch.
- _is_printer_idle now short-circuits to not-idle whenever require_plate_clear
is on and the flag is set, regardless of the currently reported state —
so the gate holds through power cycles, Bambuddy restarts, and the printer
booting back into IDLE.
- /printers/{id}/clear-plate no longer requires the printer to report
FINISH/FAILED; it accepts the ack whenever the flag is raised.
- Frontend widgets (PrinterQueueWidget, Layout, BulkPrinterToolbar) gate on
the flag rather than reported state.
Tests: added regression tests for IDLE+awaiting=True (the #961 case) and
full DB round-trip tests for the persistence layer.
Stagger option now available when printing directly to multiple printers,
not just in queue mode. Prints are automatically queued with staggered
start times using group size/interval from Settings. New "Require
plate-clear confirmation" setting lets farm users disable per-printer
plate confirmations so queued prints start automatically on finished
printers.
Also fixes settings API type parsing for require_plate_clear (boolean),
stagger_group_size and stagger_interval_minutes (integer) — without this,
saved values returned as strings would cause the settings toggle to
always show enabled and trigger a permanent save loop.
Suppress SQL/aiosqlite debug noise (~90% log volume reduction), add
caller-traced PRINT COMMAND logging to start_print(), log scheduler
queue checks, tighten stale archive ilike match to exact match, and
warn on multiple queue items in "printing" status. Includes 18 new
unit tests.
The print scheduler previously treated FINISH/FAILED as idle states
and would auto-start the next queued print before the user cleared
the build plate. Now requires explicit user confirmation via a
"Clear Plate & Start Next" button on the printer card. Uses an
in-memory plate-cleared flag — no MQTT command needed since the
scheduler's start_print overrides the printer state.
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