Features Overview

Printerhive is designed to streamline the management of multiple Bambulab 3D printers, helping you save time and automate routine tasks, all from a single, centralized platform. Whether you're running a small hobby farm or a larger business operation, Printerhive offers features to enhance your workflow.

Core Capabilities

Printerhive provides a suite of tools focused on efficiency and control:

• Real-time Monitoring: Keep an eye on all your printers simultaneously. View live status, temperatures, print progress, material consumption, and camera feeds directly on your dashboard. Learn more about Monitoring...
• Intelligent Print Queue & Scheduling: Manage your prints effectively. Prioritize jobs, schedule them for specific times, and automate repeat prints to optimize printer utilization. See Scheduled Prints...
• Task Automation & Notifications: Reduce manual effort by automating tasks and stay informed with a comprehensive notification system for important events. Explore Notifications...
• Effective File Management: Organize your G-code files, add notes or tags for clarity, and easily manage your print library. Details on File Management...
• Secure Architecture: Printerhive prioritizes security by utilizing a Raspberry Pi client within your local network. This client retrieves instructions, ensuring one-way communication and preventing external access to your network or printers. Printing continues even during internet outages.
• Basic Printer Control: Perform essential printer operations like starting/stopping prints, managing temperatures, and more, directly from Printerhive. More on Printer Control...
• Location Management: Organize your printers and clients by physical locations if you operate in multiple spots. Discover Locations...

Feature Availability Across Plans

Printerhive offers several plans, including a Free tier to get you started, scaling up to Hobby, Professional, and Business plans with increased capabilities and limits.

While the Free plan provides core functionalities like basic monitoring, print queue management, and file tagging, upgrading unlocks significant advantages:

• Increased Limits: Manage more printers (from 2 on Free up to 30+), gain substantially more cloud storage (0.5 GB up to 100GB+), longer history retention (14 days up to Unlimited), more users, and additional locations.
• Advanced Print Management: Access features like support for Swap Mod hardware (for A1 Mini), Multi-printer Printing (Professional+), and MagicPrint (Professional+).
• Enhanced Monitoring & Sharing: Get timelapses without the Printerhive logo (Hobby+) and custom URLs for multi-camera live streams (Business).
• Better Organization & Collaboration: Utilize Dynamic Groups (Hobby+), add Print Job Notes (Hobby+), and manage User Permissions (Professional+).
• Deeper Insights: Benefit from Advanced Statistics (Hobby+), Print Cost Calculation (Hobby+), and Filament Tracking/Management (Professional+).
• Integration & Automation: Leverage Automation workflows (Hobby+), Webhooks (Hobby+), and API access (Read-only for Professional+, Read-write for Business).
• Priority Support: Get access to Live Chat support (Hobby+).

(Note: Pricing and feature availability are based on the beta program information and may change. Please refer to the official Pricing Page for the most current details.)

Explore the sidebar navigation to learn more about specific features, including those not listed above like Lighting Automation.