I want to run OpenPrinting CUPS (OpenPrinting CUPS) as an app, connecting a USB printer to the host box (HAOS). Anyone who can build this/can link help me find a good app for this?
Used GitHub - arest/cups-addon: Homeassistant Cups Addon · GitHub before, but it’s essentially useless since data is not persistent.
What printer do you wish to connect?
Multiple, but the main thing is that I want a OpenPrinting CUPS instance running for management, roles and what not. Since the HA box is running anyways it would be nice to have an app (addon before) to run this server.
The HomeAssistant OS is a cut down customized Linux box. Yes, you could run a separate docker instance on it, with all the challenges that go with that. Until the next OS update comes along, often more than once per month.
Maybe a separate home automation server, and a separate printer server is in your horizon.
It should be possible on the same box as an app (the haos supported kind). Updates would be no problem this way. Data (under the hood docker container data volume) would just be left alone.
Maybe this one works better?
I’ll test it. Thank you very much for the suggestion!
Thank you so much! This one has exactly the functionality I was looking for!
Please check in, in a months time, to let us know how it is going, and if it survived a HomeAssistant core update.
Strongly recommend you implement robust, verified backup procedures, as it most likely won’t be backed up in the HomeAssistant ecosystem, and you wouldn’t want to lose any configuration and customisation you may have made to your CUPS add-on.