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.
• Intelligent Print Queue & Scheduling: Manage your prints effectively. Prioritize jobs, schedule them for specific times, and automate repeat prints to optimize printer utilization.
• Task Automation: Reduce manual effort by automating tasks like scheduling and managing repeat print jobs. Get notified about important events.
• Effective File Management: Organize your G-code files, add notes or tags for clarity, and easily manage your print library.
• 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.

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 Swap-mod (Hobby+), 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 like Notifications, Scheduled Prints, Locations, File Management, Basic Printer Control, and Lighting Automation.

Printerhive Features

Printerhive offers a range of features that help you efficiently manage your print farm.

Real-time Monitoring

• Temperature monitoring of print head and bed
• Print progress monitoring
• Material consumption tracking
• Notifications for completion or issues

Remote Management

• Remote power control for printers
• On-the-fly temperature adjustments
• Pause or cancel print jobs
• Remote camera access

Analytics and Reports

• Printer utilization statistics
• Print success rate analysis
• Material consumption reporting
• Performance metrics

Print Queue Management

• Centralized print queue
• Automatic assignment of print jobs
• Print job prioritization
• Print scheduling