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I suppose the workaround is to send all your printables to a Google drive folder, and then have an app on your devices that send those printables to the printer

I suppose the workaround is to send all your printables to a Google drive folder, and then have an app on your devices that send those printables to the printer whenever the printer is visible on wifi. Not sure if Android offers sufficient APIs for that though.

taco_emoji 7y ago
Yeah or have that folder synced to a PC running at home, and then have a service running on that machine that prints anything that shows up in that folder.
- vorpalhex 7y ago
  Probably easy enough to throw this together in python and host it on your choice of cheap, lower power hardware (Raspberry pi, etc).
  - tjohns 7y ago
    It'd also be very trivial to script with a Mac using Folder Actions and a 5 line AppleScript. (I wish Linux had an equivalent to Folder Actions. They’re really nifty.)
    - RunningDroid 7y ago
      The Linux equivalent of Folder Actions would probably either be inotify¹ or inotify-tools². 1:https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify 2:https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki
      - noodlesUK 7y ago
        A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
        wibble10 7y ago
        What do you use to do the actual ocr?
        noodlesUK 7y ago
        A python package called OCRmyPDF. It has same defaults and works very well for my use case.
- bayindirh 7y ago
  Or just a create an e-mail account which is connected to your small server with IMAP with IDLE. Create a white list, and if mail is coming from a white-listed mail then print the contents, otherwise discard the mail. This is how my Deskjet 4515 is working besides GCP. It's a pretty neat solution. It even replies with a result e-mail. I hope that HP won't kill its services too. They've already killed the app side, but remote printing is still intact.

taco_emoji 7y ago

Yeah or have that folder synced to a PC running at home, and then have a service running on that machine that prints anything that shows up in that folder.

vorpalhex 7y ago
Probably easy enough to throw this together in python and host it on your choice of cheap, lower power hardware (Raspberry pi, etc).
- tjohns 7y ago
  It'd also be very trivial to script with a Mac using Folder Actions and a 5 line AppleScript. (I wish Linux had an equivalent to Folder Actions. They’re really nifty.)
  - RunningDroid 7y ago
    The Linux equivalent of Folder Actions would probably either be inotify¹ or inotify-tools². 1:https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify 2:https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki
    - noodlesUK 7y ago
      A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
      - wibble10 7y ago
        What do you use to do the actual ocr?
        noodlesUK 7y ago
        A python package called OCRmyPDF. It has same defaults and works very well for my use case.
bayindirh 7y ago
Or just a create an e-mail account which is connected to your small server with IMAP with IDLE. Create a white list, and if mail is coming from a white-listed mail then print the contents, otherwise discard the mail. This is how my Deskjet 4515 is working besides GCP. It's a pretty neat solution. It even replies with a result e-mail. I hope that HP won't kill its services too. They've already killed the app side, but remote printing is still intact.