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Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RP into an Air Print?

mehalter 5y ago
There is a very similar level of magic for converting a raspberry pi to do AirPrint https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint
- automato 5y ago
  THANK YOU! I was looking up and down the net for something like this, couldn't find it for the life of me.
starik36 5y ago
I have it running right now. My old school LaserJet 1320 is wireless on my home network. It's connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W. As someone mentioned, it's basically CUPS and Avahi. I've set it up years ago and it just runs. The only thing that sucks is that printing from an iPhone takes about 5 minutes because of all the processing on the RPi. I suppose using a higher end RPi would fix that, but I like the small form factor. Printing from a PC is instant.
kayodelycaon 5y ago
Air print is really easy. It’s built into Utunu printer sharing. https://askubuntu.com/questions/26130/how-can-share-my-printer-so-that-i-can-use-it-with-airprint https://askubuntu.com/questions/26130/how-can-share-my-print...
akeck 5y ago
The nuts and bolts of AirPrint are CUPS (linux printer server) plus Avahi (mDNS infrastructure, known in Apple land as Rendevous). My recollection is that to get my USB printer to AirPrint, I only needed to install the CUPS and Avahi packages, and then things magically worked. YMMV.
- JeanSebTr 5y ago
  Didn't knew it once was named Rendez-vous! It has been called Bonjour for a long time now.
Unklejoe 5y ago
I was able to do this on Ubuntu 16.04 with CUPS. It was surprisingly easy. I just googled and followed some guide on the first page of results.
BBC-vs-neolibs 5y ago
https://github.com/DrPsychick/docker-cups-airprint https://github.com/DrPsychick/docker-cups-airprint
maddyboo 5y ago
Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RPi into a Chromecast?
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- mehalter 5y ago
  Not quite Chromecast functionality, but there is a similar project from Balena that adds Spotify Connect, Airplay, and Bluetooth to a speaker using a Raspberry Pi https://sound.balenalabs.io/ https://sound.balenalabs.io/

There is a very similar level of magic for converting a raspberry pi to do AirPrint https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint

automato 5y ago
THANK YOU! I was looking up and down the net for something like this, couldn't find it for the life of me.

starik36 5y ago

I have it running right now. My old school LaserJet 1320 is wireless on my home network. It's connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W. As someone mentioned, it's basically CUPS and Avahi. I've set it up years ago and it just runs. The only thing that sucks is that printing from an iPhone takes about 5 minutes because of all the processing on the RPi. I suppose using a higher end RPi would fix that, but I like the small form factor. Printing from a PC is instant.

kayodelycaon 5y ago

Air print is really easy. It’s built into Utunu printer sharing. https://askubuntu.com/questions/26130/how-can-share-my-printer-so-that-i-can-use-it-with-airprint https://askubuntu.com/questions/26130/how-can-share-my-print...

akeck 5y ago

The nuts and bolts of AirPrint are CUPS (linux printer server) plus Avahi (mDNS infrastructure, known in Apple land as Rendevous). My recollection is that to get my USB printer to AirPrint, I only needed to install the CUPS and Avahi packages, and then things magically worked. YMMV.

JeanSebTr 5y ago
Didn't knew it once was named Rendez-vous! It has been called Bonjour for a long time now.

Unklejoe 5y ago

I was able to do this on Ubuntu 16.04 with CUPS. It was surprisingly easy. I just googled and followed some guide on the first page of results.

BBC-vs-neolibs 5y ago

https://github.com/DrPsychick/docker-cups-airprint https://github.com/DrPsychick/docker-cups-airprint

maddyboo 5y ago

Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RPi into a Chromecast?

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mehalter 5y ago
Not quite Chromecast functionality, but there is a similar project from Balena that adds Spotify Connect, Airplay, and Bluetooth to a speaker using a Raspberry Pi https://sound.balenalabs.io/ https://sound.balenalabs.io/