Hello! I’m Albert Garangou from Spain, and I discovered astroprint a month ago, but I started using it this week, it’s very simple to use but very complete and useful! before I was using normal SD printing, but it’s much productive to use a monitoring software like astroprint. Frist, I used Octoprint, but it was like a bit messy. Now I can’t print without astroprint, if I have a problem with astrobox, I don’t want to use SD card! 
I think it’s amazing how astroprint have grown, and it’s surprising how somebody can do all this, with not much team members!
Currently, I have a BQ Prusa i3 Hephestos, but I’va used also a BQ Withbox 1 & 2.
I really love 3D printing because you can design and print lot of things and cool stuff, but if you don’t know how to use cad programs, there is a huge community with a lot of ideas! (and also with a lot of free time like me 
).
I’ve had used 3d printing for educational purposes, but the 99% of time it’s for my own ideas and design.
Never stop improving!
Welcome @Albert!
It’s a pleasure to have you here! 
Also, looks like you’ll find the Ultimate 3D Printing Cheat Sheet to be helpful 
I live near Syracuse NY, been into 3d printing for a few just finally got my own printer, I have an Anet A6 but also have access to makerbot replicator 2.0. I heard about astroprint while looking for options to use my printer from my mobile phone. I like the astroprint plugin so far I guess it would be better if there were some tutorials on getting setup (I didn’t need one but might be useful for other new users).
The idea of getting the junk in my head into the real world appealed to me. I currently have two printers. One a CR-10S and a Prusa Research MK2S with an MK3, hopefully, soon on its way. I hope to by an AstroPrint, probably a Touch, for each. but being technologically impaired I really need some questions answered. I want to make sure that what I “think” I am reading is actually what I “am” reading. Hope that makes sense. So here we go. First I have WiFi at home and it is on 24/7 and it is 20 mbs.
Will the Touch:
Allow for remote, real time, video monitoring from anywhere I can get access to the 'net on my Android?
If so what is the approximate lag time?
Will it allow me to turn off the hotend and heated bed remotely?
Is a Logitech 920 or 922 compatible with it?
What doe the Touch use for power? Wall plug or the USB (I am assuming here) cable from the Printer?
I now it has a lot of features but, at this time, these are the basics I am looking for. I know the information is out there and I have probably read it more than once but I am not “getting” it.
I enjoy the work I do with my printers. It mixes the mechanical with the technological. As a 52 year old fat man it lets have the illusion that maybe I can get up to speed with the new millennium in another 20 years or so.
Neal
Welcome @Neal_Weeks!
Pleasure to have you here! 
To answer your questions…
Yes. You can use our web interface to do real time video monitoring.
We have AstroPrint Mobile (on Android) but we don’t have real time video monitoring available YET on the mobile app. But, it’s coming
Based on your connection, there shouldn’t be much of a lag. Even if there’s a lag, your brain shouldn’t notice it – I personally haven’t seen much of a lag with the live streams…
It won’t let you turn off the printer (yet?) – but you can certainly cool down the heated bed. The bed will be nice and cool when the printer is NOT active by default…
Presuming you are talking about the Logitech C920, yes, it is on our list of AstroPrint compatible cameras.
Wall plug.
@Neal_Weeks: If you want to test everything out for cheap, you can test this all out with our free, open source AstroBox Gateway (you just need a $35 Raspberry Pi 3).
We also have AstroPrint Desktop – which might be useful for you.
Hope that answers all the questions.
If you have more questions, please start a new thread (since this is all off topic) and I’d be happy to answer them
Hello, Dave from NJ here. I’ve been printing for about 8 months. I fly race drones so having a printer allows me to design and make my own parts. I also have children, so making things for them .I own a Prusa MK2S and a MK3 which I just finished building. I found out about Astroprint when I was looking into remote monitoring of my printer. I almost went with octoprint, but the features that Astroprint offered over Octo was enough to sway me.
Welcome David!
Pleasure to have you here!
Being a drone racer INSTANTLY makes you the coolest dad in NJ 
Hello,
My name is Tim.
I’m from Scottsdale, AZ
I’ve been wanting a 3D printer for a long time and finally found one I could afford.
My main interest is printing movie props i.e. phasers from Star Trek and other Sci Fi genres and such for my costuming hobby.
I have a Mod-t printer from New Matter. Unfortunately, New Matter is going out of business and I had to down load your program as per their webpage suggestion.
I really need to have the ability to rotate my files to fit them on my print tray and to also flip them so that I can print them with the flat side down. For example, one file I have prints on the side and if I could lay it down I wouldn’t need to print the supports.
Hey @Tim_VanDenover!
Welcome!
Glad to have you here!
As far as rotating designs etc, perhaps try out AstroPrint Desktop
1.) Where are you from?
Location Beaverton Oregon USA
2.) Why are you interested in 3D Printing?
Started with Printrbot in September 2013. Hobby Retired.
Build and maintain Eleven 3D printers at local high school.
Encouraging students to use CAD, prototype, learn about engineering.
3.) What printer(s) do you use?
Makerbot Rep 5th Gen, Makerbot Rep2, six Printrbot Simple Metal, Mini-Kossel, Ultibots K250SV (Kassel), Original Prusa i3 MK2S
4.) How and where did you find out about AstroPrint?
Was testing Octoprint and looking online for help when I saw suggestions to use AstroPrint. I was using RPi 2 to test Octoprint.
Switched to AstroPrint, got two Raspberry PI connected to two Printrbots yesterday (3/22/2018) and used mobile app on iPhone to print.
School has more RPi 2 that I can use for AstroBoxes.
No more SD cards, no more tethered to computer.
Richard
Hi, I’m Ty and I teach STEM in Dalton, GA. We use the New Matter Mod-t printers for our projects.
I found out about AstroPrint when New Matter closed. Until now we had very few problems with our prints but now we’re lucky to have a few print correctly. Joined this forum to hopefully figure out how to fix these issues.
Thanks!
Hi, Geoff here from South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
I have Coccoon Create from Aldi (Re-branded Wanhao Duplicatoe i3 Plus)
I got into 3D printing because I love tinkering and My wife is into minatures (Doll Houses) and spends a fortune on minature furniture, I told her with a 3D printer I could make her furniture for her… Well, I thought it was a good excuse anyway.
I just started using Astroprint on my raspberry Pi networked to my printer and so far it has worked flawlessly…
I use Astroprint on my desktop as well.
I tried other programs before Astroprint, but like how Astroprint works.
Geoff
Hey y’all!!
I am from Florence, Kentucky. I began 3d printing as just something to tinker with and make gadgets/toys for my kids. It began as a joke with my brother and I to swap printed gifts 
I currently have (1) one Creality Ender 3X and once I have more space, would like to expand with more printers. I find myself not printing some objects in the event I want to print something else instead haha. I first found out about AstroPrint when I was trying to setup remote access for OctoPi, and found this to be much simpler to manage/setup.
An improvement that I think would benefit most, would be the ability to import slicer profiles in!
PS: Yes we really say Y’all
Greetings,
Like most I started messing with 3D printing due to COVID isolation and in the past few months I’ve upgraded my first printer and purchased an additional.
I’m going to use my smaller printer for personal tinkering stuff but I’m ready to commission the larger printer to help folks that want or need things printed.
Cheers
- Denver CO (But Originally Sydney Australia)
- I am into technology and have some creative hobbies - Covid certainly got me looking for a new hobby I can enjoy at home.
- Creality x 2 (Ender 3 pro, Ender 5 Plus)
- Researching Octoprint addons
I submitted a RFE on this earlier but some extra Cancel Reasons breakdown for the reporting side would be awesome. Some can be auto detected and also having a option to set manual ones in print history.
North Eastern & East Central, Iowa, USA
I’ve been a “maker” all my life, this is just a different medium!
Monoprice MINI v.1 (dead), Ender 3 Pro (many upgrades including 4.2.7 board) Ender 3 v.2 (starting to upgrade from 4.2.2 - 4.2.7 board soon)
ala. OctoPrint/OctoPie.
I’ve been using it for about 3 weeks & believe I’ve already posted an “undocumented feature”
I’m new user on Astroprint