Hey @mbonney,
the most likely issue is that the 3D printer’s power consumption drops below 80 VA for a short time even while it is printing. As soon as that happens, the bridge thinks it is idle and stops the equipment if the member is no longer allowed to use it.
This is the same issue that Tomask and Patrik have described here: Power off equipment right after turning from busy to idle outside opening hours
Generally, 3D printer’s power consumption is not predictable enough for busy/idle detection. I know that’s annoying and we’ll see if we can improve that somehow.
Until then I can think of following options:
- feed a dedicated busy/idle signal into the bridge,
- use a different integration like Happylab‘s Octoprint plugin , or
- add extra permissions that allow users to use the 3D printer outside opening hours so that they don’t stop if they’re idle for a few seconds.