#1429 (reported by @TrickShotMLG02, confirmed by @Mape6 on a flat single-LAN
that rules out subnet / mDNS-reflector theories): with the physical printer
off the slicer's "Send" landed in Bambuddy's archive; once the printer
powered on every subsequent "Send" went straight to the printer's SD card
and bypassed Bambuddy. Bundle analysis: mape6-before showed clean FTP
receive + archive lines, mape6-after had zero FTP attempts to Bambuddy
once the printer was online.
Cause: mqtt_bridge.py::_resolve_client encoded _target_ip_uint32_le /
_vp_ip_uint32_le ONLY on client-identity change and early-returned on
every refresh tick when the same client object was still bound. If
target_client.ip_address was empty at first bind (DB row stale, or client
constructed before SSDP refresh filled it in), the encoding stayed None,
the net.info[*].ip rewrite block was skipped, the cache filled with the
real printer IP, sticky-key preservation kept the poisoned net value
alive across every subsequent incremental push, and the slicer followed
the leaked IP. Only Bambuddy-restart-with-printer-off cleared it — the
workaround both reporters independently arrived at. Same shape on
multi-NIC printers (X1C, H2D Pro): the rewrite only matched entries
whose ip equalled _target_ip_uint32_le, so a secondary interface IP
Bambuddy never saw would leak through unchanged.
Bridge fix:
- _resolve_client calls a new _refresh_ip_encoding() on every refresh
tick, even when client identity is unchanged; self-heals once
ip_address becomes valid.
- _refresh_ip_encoding() sweeps the existing _latest_print_state when
encoding becomes valid for the first time. Without the sweep,
sticky-key preservation keeps the pre-arm poisoned cache alive
forever — incremental pushes that don't include net carry the bad
value forward.
- _rewrite_net_info_ips() rewrites EVERY non-zero net.info[].ip entry
that doesn't already equal the VP IP, not just entries matching
_target_ip_uint32_le. Multi-NIC printers stop leaking secondary
interfaces. Zero-IP placeholders are left alone so "active interface"
detection still works.
- INFO logging on encoding arm/update and on cache sweep so future
bundles directly answer "did the rewrite fire?".
Mode wire-value rename (#1429 follow-up, separate confusion source):
- Both reporters' support bundles showed mode: immediate while the UI
said "Archive"; @TrickShotMLG02 quoted: "I have no idea why it says
immediate in the support-info.json file. In the webui the printer is
set to archive". UI button "Archive" had always saved immediate, and
"Queue" had always saved print_queue. Canonical wire values are now
archive / review / queue / proxy, matching the button labels 1:1.
- New normalize_vp_mode() + VP_MODE_* constants in
models/virtual_printer.py; manager.py normalises on construction so
a legacy row read pre-migration still dispatches correctly.
- core/database.py::run_migrations rewrites existing virtual_printers
and settings rows; idempotent (re-runs are no-ops); identical SQL
under SQLite and Postgres.
- API routes accept both legacy and canonical on input, normalise
before storage. GET /settings/virtual-printer normalises on read so
the frontend's mode-button highlight works for stale legacy values.
- Three frontend VP components (VirtualPrinterSettings,
VirtualPrinterCard, VirtualPrinterAddDialog) switched click handlers
and type aliases to canonical; each got its own normalizeMode()
helper so a stale-cached settings payload still highlights the right
button. Two pre-existing `printer.mode === 'queue' ? 'review'`
legacy mappings in VirtualPrinterCard were the source of a test
failure caught mid-implementation where the new canonical 'queue'
was being mis-aliased back to 'review' and hiding the auto-dispatch
+ force-color-match toggles.
mode handler is NOT the dispatch bug: manager.py::_archive_file (the
handler for archive mode) doesn't dispatch to the physical printer.
The "files end up on the printer's SD card" symptom was the IP-leak
from the bridge cache. The mode rename is purely clarity / support-
bundle accuracy.
Edward's diagnosis was exact: the manual /print-queue/ POST extracts
filament requirements from the 3MF and writes
required_filament_types + filament_overrides + ams_mapping onto the
queue item, but the VP queue-mode write path skipped all of that.
Net effect: scheduler reached its model-only-matching fallback and
auto-dispatched onto whatever printer was free regardless of loaded
colour.
Extract the scheduler's existing _get_filament_requirements 3MF
parser into a shared helper so the VP path can reuse it. VP's
_add_to_print_queue now populates required_filament_types
unconditionally (cheap; helps the scheduler reject obvious type
mismatches) and writes filament_overrides with force_color_match:
true per consumed slot when a new per-VP queue_force_color_match
toggle is on. Default off to preserve current behaviour for
upgraders.
UI: new toggle on VirtualPrinterCard, mode-gated to print_queue,
mirroring the existing auto-dispatch toggle. i18n: en + de
translated, other 6 locales seeded with English copy.
Schema: one nullable column on virtual_printers
(queue_force_color_match BOOLEAN, default 0/FALSE).
11 new backend tests (8 for the extracted parser, 3 for the VP
write path) + 6 new frontend tests (toggle render gating, default
state, click posts queue_force_color_match in update body).
Existing scheduler tests pass against the refactored helper.
README, CHANGELOG, website features page, and wiki virtual-printer
page all updated.
Bambuddy can now use an external PostgreSQL database via the
DATABASE_URL environment variable. SQLite remains the default.
Dialect-aware helpers handle upserts, PRAGMAs, FTS (FTS5 vs
tsvector+GIN), backup/restore, and health checks. All migration
blocks use savepoints to prevent Postgres transaction poisoning.
Backups are always portable SQLite format regardless of backend.
Cross-database restore imports SQLite backups into PostgreSQL
with automatic boolean/datetime conversion, NOT NULL default
filling, and FK constraint handling.
Virtual printers in Queue mode now have an "Auto-dispatch" setting.
When enabled (default), prints start automatically — preserving current
behavior. When disabled, prints are added with manual_start so they
wait for manual dispatch from the queue UI.
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