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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.
by 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 agoProbably easy enough to throw this together in python and host it on your choice of cheap, lower power hardware (Raspberry pi, etc).
- tjohns 7y agoIt'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 agoThe 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 agoA 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.
- bayindirh 7y agoOr 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.