Everything that needs you, firstOne overview for the whole shop: attention on top, then every printer as a card with camera, job, temperatures and AMS.
Local-first printer control · Bambu Lab first
One place for every printer you own.
Discover, watch, slice, queue and automate the printers on your own network — from one printer to a shop full of them. Runs on your hardware, talks to printers directly, and never asks for a vendor account.
- Printers
- Bambu first, Creality and Prusa next
- Runs on
- macOS · Linux server for always-on
- Talks to printers over
- MQTT on your LAN
- Credentials
- Printer access code, no Bambu account
- Slicing
- PrusaSlicer, Orca and Bambu Studio, local
- Prints and models stay
- on your hardware
What it does all day
Check the shop. Fix the one thing. Start the next job.
Every nozzle on one wallThe chamber camera, live, without handing your printer to a cloud. Credentials stay on the server and never reach the browser; the stream reconnects on its own.
Every print goes through the queueAn editable queue with per-printer workload, immediate prints included. Preheat, start, repeat what worked. The printer you pick is the printer that prints.
Every gram accounted forAMS and RFID spools weighed per job. Strata tells you a spool is short before the printer pauses on it.
It watches so you don’tWorkflows that fire on finish, repeat jobs that run until the count is met, and a review queue for anything Strata was not sure about. It asks before it acts.
Reliability, per printer, per materialFailures with their cause, performance by printer, every event kept. Enough to know which machine to retire and which filament to stop buying.
In development
What install will look like. One application to start; a dedicated server only if you want printers watched while your Mac sleeps.
Strata is taking shape now.
Local printer control for macOS comes first, with Linux server support for always-on setups.
Strata.app macOS, Apple silicon → open it 4 printers found on your network → add the first access code from the printer → live view ready Optional Linux server, always on → serves the rest of the house
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