GUI Support?

[sshsphere]

Hey!
This is a really nice tool :) ! But it would be even nicer if it had an easy to use UI so the average person could use it. That would be a much better option for everyone than the paid and/or virus ridden "Epson Adjustment" software currently available online.

No guarantees but I might make one and send a PR if I have the time. Is that something you would be interested in?

[dgerber]

Agreed, that's why I started adding a GUI (to reinkpy). But I think it would have to include autodiscovery — if a user can find and enter their device IP, probably they can use the CLI too.

[sshsphere]

I actually already made a script for finding printer names and IPs: https://gist.github.com/sshsphere/fa42b8d1d8a177709ed4d65df580c127

Although I currently don't know of a reliable way to automatically select the correct printer model in code. I imagine it shouldn't be much trouble for the user to select the printer model they have themselves.

[dgerber]

I actually already made a script for finding printer names and IPs: https://gist.github.com/sshsphere/fa42b8d1d8a177709ed4d65df580c127

Good, it looks a bit simpler than "SNMP-discovery"!

Although I currently don't know of a reliable way to automatically select the correct printer model in code. I imagine it shouldn't be much trouble for the user to select the printer model they have themselves.

I've just pushed some notes for SNMP here: <https://codeberg.org/atufi/reinkpy/src/branch/feature-snmp> The GUI does automatic model selection.

[Ircama]

While I have some experience with wxPython and tkinter, I think a GUI is overkilling here. You can get the status of a printer via python3 epson_print_conf.py -m XP-205 -a 192.168.1.87 (printer model and IP address) and reset the waste ink levels via python3 epson_print_conf.py -m XP-205 -a 192.168.1.87 --reset_waste_ink (again printer model and IP address; also, this command is very rarely used). Is it worth designing a UI for such simple use cases? Besides, epson_print_conf.py allows a number of additional options and filters for specific usage and an API interface. Really a GUI is needed?

[sshsphere]

I think so. The average person doesn't know what "python" and "pip" is and probably never opened a command terminal in their life. I imagine making an exe, even if its just two buttons for the most common use case (reset waste ink) would help a lot of people

[Ircama]

OK, I see now, depending on free time (my initial target was to produce a technical component anyway). A good tool to make an exe is https://pyinstaller.org.

I of course accept contributions.

[sshsphere]

Created a (draft) PR here, lemme know what you think so far

[Ircama]

Thanks! I'll surely check it as soon as I have free time