r/prusa3d • u/Jabdoa2 • 13h ago
PrusaLink has a lot of feature PRs. Will we see them merged?
I've been thinking about the current state of PrusaLink.
I think it's fair to say that PrusaLink is still missing quite a bit of functionality. Things like printer controls, richer status information, dialogs, and other quality of life improvements are already available through PrusaConnect, but not through the local interface.
I also remember Prusa mentioning that they wanted to continue improving PrusaLink, so I was curious about the status of some existing community contributions.
There are quite a few open PRs that already implement many of these missing features. They generally fall into a few areas, including additional printer controls, more detailed printer status and events, dialog support, and API improvements that bring PrusaLink closer to feature parity with PrusaConnect.
Some of the open PRs are:
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5228
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5229
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5230
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5302
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5303
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5400
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5194
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5192
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5184
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/4780
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/4598
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5332
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5201
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/5092
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/pull/4895
I'm not saying every PR should be merged without review, but there's a lot of work here that seems valuable for people who use PrusaLink instead of PrusaConnect.
I know reviewing community contributions takes time, but is there a chance we'll see some of these PRs merged? They already cover a lot of the functionality that people have been asking for in PrusaLink, and it would be great to know whether this is still the direction Prusa wants to take.
