3d printer octoprint domoticz monitoring

[peteralm]

In the beta version, there is now an Ocotoprint hardware.

I can see the Octoprint hardware made it into 2021.1 but I can't see any documentation about it, is anyone using it?

It has options for settings in\out topics but that doesn't actually appear to flow to anything as I can see in the MQTT logs it still publishes on the default OctoPrint/, it looks like it doesn't do any discovery and there is no option to create a virtual device for it, do we need to create another hardware device and create dummy devices to feed into it?

Thanks
Wob

So, having seen this post and taking delivery of a new Ender 3 v2 I have done some experimentation...

If you:
install the MQTT plugin in octoPrint - set your MQTT broker ip address (mine is a the domoticz server also running zigbee2mqtt)
Install the octoPrint hardware to domoticz and again set the ip address to the MQTT server
In octoPrint check the base topic (mine is octoPrint/)
In domoticz set the topic (in and out to octoPrint/)

Having done this I found some new devices ( nozzle temp, bed temp, file path, printing (on/off), progress (%) and ZPos). I am sure that there is something I am missing about messaging back to octoPrint - but as I dont think I need to talk back to the printer then I am OK for now. I may have enabled extended information in octoPrint MQTT but that was it... Hope this helps!

P.