HA Label Studio: print DYMO labels directly from HA

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Hi all,

I wanted to print “cooked on” labels for things in the fridge without walking to my computer, so I built Label Studio: a Home Assistant app for USB DYMO LabelWriter printers. Now an IKEA button on the fridge prints a label with today’s date.

Label Studio
Label Studio1920×1060 211 KB

What it does

  • Label designer in the sidebar, with a live preview. Five fonts, text that wraps, hyphenates and resizes to fit, and your Home Assistant theme (including dark mode and custom themes).
  • Icons, emoji or QR codes: search all Material Design Icons, and put the image left, right, above or below the text.
  • Dynamic labels: dates are filled in when printing, and text and QR codes accept Home Assistant templates, like {{ now().strftime('%d-%m %H:%M') }} or {{ states('sensor.freezer_temperature') }}.
  • A print button for every template: saved templates show up as button entities (through MQTT discovery), ready for dashboards, automations and physical switches. Automations can also print any label by publishing to an MQTT topic.
  • Every LabelWriter 400/450 label size, with favourites and a print correction per label type, for printers that print slightly off-centre.
  • Optional network printer: share the LabelWriter with your computers and phones over Bonjour/AirPrint (off by default).

Entity card to print template
Entity card to print template480×276 20.9 KB

Button + printed label
Button + printed label1920×1595 450 KB

Requirements

  • Home Assistant OS or Supervised, on amd64 or aarch64 (such as a Raspberry Pi 4/5).
  • A DYMO LabelWriter 400 or 450 series, connected by USB. The 4XL and 550 series aren’t supported.
  • For the print buttons: an MQTT broker (the Mosquitto broker app is picked up automatically).

Install

Add repository to my Home Assistant

Or add https://github.com/madeby0203/ha-label-studio as a repository in the app store, install Label Studio and open it from the sidebar. The app’s Documentation tab covers setup, templates, automations and the network printer.

Status

This is the first release. I’ve tested it with my own LabelWriter 400 and 57 × 32 mm labels; other models and label sizes should work, but I’d love to hear how it goes (reminder, you can make adjustments per label type). The network printer is the newest part, so reports from macOS, Windows and iOS are especially welcome.

Built with help from AI (Claude); I’ve tested and use everything myself. Not affiliated with DYMO or Home Assistant.

Issues and ideas: Issues · madeby0203/ha-label-studio · GitHub

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Interesting, how will this behave with the LW 450 Duo?

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Dymo documentation tells me that both printers will appear as separate USB devices. So to make it work with my app/add-on you’d have to set the USB path to the label one (not the tape).

For the Twin models, its a single usb device and it should assume that both rolls will have the same label size and print from either. I could add support for the twin but I’d need someone to help with testing since I don’t have this model.

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So, by attaching it to the HA server I will lose a half of the machine.
Ok, nice idea anyway, but for me, the printer has to stay connected to my PC… :wink:
However, still thanks for your effort :wink: