I think it would be nice if my guests could easily print and scan when they are visiting.

Printing should be relatively easy nowadays with the printer on the same network. Scanning is another story. I found this nice project which works very nicely.

However, I would love to have the same but for printing, that way I would not have to do device specific troubleshooting/helping when trying to print something from guests’ devices.

There is this project, which has a screenshot of what seems to be exactly what I’m looking for, but the issues are unanswered, there is no release, the building of the project is lacking.

Dockerfiles are incomplete, they are lacking copy yarn.lock and api lacks db initialization. The ports seem to be hardcoded. And once built, it doesn’t work or at least I didn’t manage yet. I got the frontend finally up but can’t login. My knowledge is very limited so I’m checking with you if there is anything similar in the landscape or anyone willing to help on that project. Unfortunately I am locked out of github.

CUPS didn’t work for me as I can’t see an upload option on the web UI.

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I use SANE for scanning.

    • install sane-utils
    • configure /etc/sane.d/saned.conf, list the IP adresses or network allowed to connect
    • start saned.socket

    on your client (linux desktop)

    • add the SANE server IP to to the config echo "192.168.xx.xx" > /etc/sane.d/net.conf
    • list the scanners scanimage -L

    The scanner is also automatically listed in scanning utilities like simple-scan etc. Don’t know about phones or other devices, I assume there are scanner auto-discovery utilities; phones also have cameras so thy can scan on their own. I don’t know about Web UIs, why not just use native printing/scanning features of guest devices?