You have to manually turn on the prusa cloud features. Also the source for the firmware and the slicer are on github for you to check.
Voron’s are cool too if you like tinkering
Comment on We need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Prusa printers are totally usable offline. With Prusa Link you can benefit from some simple comfort features while remaining totally inside your local network. You can block Internet access to the printer from your router and Prusa Link will still work totally fine in you local network.
I have to check my pihole logs to confirm for sure there isn’t any telemetry by default.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Prusa Connect (online cloud) is totally optional. You can use Prusa Link locally to send the score to the printer wirelessly from the slicer. Prusa Link is a bit barebone but it does the job.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
They are giving out a docker image now so you can host your own prusa cloud on your own network
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, that’s very cool, I didn’t know !
curiouschipmunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As alternative you can get a pi running octoprint to control the prusa by usb and keep the printer itself completely disconnected.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I have MK3 so PrusaLink is running on a pi already, via the onboard UART. I tried Octoprint with this setup very long ago and I had issues. The pi would be too slow to send the commands to the printer and would end up failing the prints sometimes. I haven’t revisited Octoprint since.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I have everything turned off, but my Prusa still updates its clock and tells me if it needs a firmware update.
I don’t think pihole is going to be able to tell the difference between that or reporting back filenames to Prusa.
I doubt they’re doing anything super sketchy, I just don’t think there’s a great way to verify for sure.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is though, more than any other 3d printing company, you actually can be absolutely certain of what it’s doing
Review the firmware code (github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware) Compile it yourself Flash it
Nice 404 on that link.
I have the very first model they sold, for which they did actively maintain a marlin fork. I haven’t seen that kind of GitHub activity for recent models.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
? I double checked; the link works for me…
Maybe the client you’re using doesn’t like the parentheses.
github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware