I saw a very neat video about thermal printers the other day and have played with the idea for a long time in my head.
Bought one and played with it a bit and printed my shopping list.
What would you like to print in your smart home with these things?
The video I saw and the neat article:
I’m vaguely recalling that some thermal paper is coated with undesirable chemicals, possibly cancer forming. Use with care.
Yeah, it was BPA.
Not an issue in the EU anymore.
You will get BPA free printing paper.
Good to know.
Nice idea ! I’d print a todo list for my kids (routine before coming down for dinner) !
Do you have any code to share about how you integrated this printer with Home Assistant ?
Thanks !
Yeah, this is very interesting indeed. I shared the idea of printing shopping lists with the wife and she was immediately onboard, but struggling to get a thermal printer integrated. Tried this repo via HACS out but adding the integration fails for me - GitHub - cognitivegears/ha-escpos-thermal-printer: Home Assistant / HACS integration for network thermal printers
Would appreciate sharing any knowledge you have to help us out!
I had the same issue so I made a pretty simple component. I only have a T88VI to test with, but it’s working well for me. Give it a shot and let me know if/how it works for you, if you’d like. GitHub - zacs/ha-receipt_printer: Epson receipt printer custom component for Home Assistant
same issue over here. so with the help of claude we wrote a new integration working via bluetooth (tested only on netum printer but it shall work as it is based on the esc(pos lib that supports it). https://github.com/dvbit/esc-pos-Bluetooth-printer
I am using this repo without any problems.
Did print a couple of flyers when I had a booth at the maker faire.
Worked like a charm.