Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
  • @dan@upvote.au
    4•1 year ago

    You do lose ink level indication

    If you’re talking about the laser printers, the toner level is available in the printer’s web UI and via the network. I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

    • Zagorath
      1•1 year ago

      I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

      Oh that’s neat. How did you accomplish that?

      • @dan@upvote.au
        4•1 year ago

        It’s a built-in integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/brother. For me, Home Assistant automatically detected the printer on the network and showed a notification in the app / on the site about a new device being found.

        It provides pretty much all the data you’d want… Remaining drum life, toner level, page count, status (sleeping, idle, printing, paper jam, out of paper), and I think a few other things.