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Thomas Scott Williams
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Back-to-back prints in chamber-heated materials (ASA, ABS, PA, PC) each paid
a full heat-soak from cold, even when the print that just finished had left
the chamber at temperature. Two changes remove that cost.
Keep bed warm between prints
While a printer sits in FINISH awaiting plate-clear and the next queued item
needs chamber heat, hold the bed hot so the chamber does not cool during the
bed-clearing window. The bed is the chamber's heating element here, not a
print surface, so the hold runs at the new `queue_keep_warm_bed_temp`
(default 90C, which also satisfies bed-threshold-linked aftermarket chamber
heaters), raised to the item's own bed temperature when that is higher.
Gated on `queue_keep_bed_warm` AND `require_plate_clear` AND
`preheat_enabled`, all re-checked in the backend so a stale UI cannot leave
the feature running. `queue_keep_warm_max_minutes` (default 120) bounds the
hold: when it elapses the bed is switched off and the hold latches until the
printer is next a candidate, so a plate nobody clears cannot leave the bed
hot indefinitely. The hold is also released when the item is deleted, the
queue empties, or a gate is toggled off mid-hold, and never when firmware
reports a target other than the one it set — a temperature the user or a
print changed is left alone. Publishing is idempotent.
Smart soak reduction from chamber history
The scheduler samples each connected printer's chamber temperature every tick
into a 2h rolling history. Preheat credits time the chamber has already spent
at temperature against the configured soak, shortening or skipping it.
Credit starts no earlier than the newest sample, the most recent unbroken run
of samples, or the end of the last real dip below target. A dip only counts
once it outlasts a grace period: an enclosed chamber cannot lose and regain
several degrees quickly (measured on an X1C, cooling from 55C to below 48C
takes 23-73 minutes, ~0.2 C/min), so a brief low reading is a door opening or
sensor noise rather than lost soak — and a plate swap, which is exactly when
keep-warm runs, produces one. A stale history credits nothing: at that
cooling rate the chamber can cross the threshold unobserved, so the full soak
runs instead.
Three supporting changes to preheat itself:
* Cancelling or deleting a queued item now stops a preheat already running
for it. Those routes only write `status` to the database, which a dispatch
coroutine parked in `asyncio.sleep` cannot observe, so the heaters ran for
the rest of max_wait + soak — 45 minutes at the default settings — and the
printer stayed in `busy_printers`, blocking every other queued item behind
a print that was not happening. The routes now signal the scheduler
directly, and the stage sleeps in slices so it notices promptly and
abandons the dispatch, letting the existing rollback shut the heaters off.
* A chamber-heated print whose slicer metadata carries no bed temperature
(common for Orca-exported 3MFs) used to skip preheat entirely and start
with a cold chamber. It now heats the bed to `queue_keep_warm_bed_temp`.
A parsed bed temperature still wins, and a print with no chamber
requirement still skips — no bed temperature is invented for the print
itself. Preheat's bed target is transient regardless: the print's own
gcode issues its M140/M190 at start.
* Preheat records which commands it sent (bed, chamber, airduct) and unwinds
them if the dispatch aborts before the print starts — a failed upload, a
cancelled item, an exception — instead of leaving the printer heating for
a job that is not happening.
