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The web interface

Everything on one page at http://spoolmanscale-pro.local, in English or German, light or dark.

Overview

The three backends as tiles: which one runs, the version it runs, how many spools it holds, Activate, Open its own interface, its Log, and Info with what the backend is and what this Pi means for it. A tile also says when a newer version was found. Below them the scale (which backend it uses, whether it reached it, whether it points at this Pi) and the Pi itself (RAM, SD card, temperature, clock, and a warning when the power supply is too weak). A Pi has no battery clock; when its time is off, one button takes the time from your device.

Where the Pi runs several backends at once, each tile starts and stops its own, shows the RAM it uses, and one of them is marked as the scale's. A card then lists the addresses the backends use to reach each other.

Scale

The scale's own web interface, passed through by the Pi. Its settings, tags, logs and firmware updates are all there, on the Pi's address.

Backup

A backup per backend, by hand or once a day from a chosen hour. Download, restore, delete, or restore from a file. Every restore saves the data it replaces first, and puts it back if the restore fails.

Updates

  • SpoolmanScale Pro itself, from its GitHub releases, and back to the version before.
  • The backends: each runs the version this release was tested with, until you pick a newer one. You see the release notes of every version in between. A backup is made first; if the new version does not start, the old one and its data come back by themselves.
  • BamBuddy's daily builds, if you want the newest development state: one switch, with a backup first and a way back to the release.

The Pi looks for updates every six hours by itself and shows what it found as a number on the tab. It never installs anything without a click; a switch on the page turns the search off.

Pairing

Find the scale on the network, enter the Pi on it, register it in FilaMan, pass on a BamBuddy key. See Set up the Pi.

Network

The Pi's name on the network, the WLAN it is in, and its own WLAN. Joining a WLAN that does not work puts the Pi back where it was; the hotspot only goes off while another network is there. The Pi's address and MAC are shown too: keep the current address, or check another one and use it, with the way back to the router's address if the Pi cannot reach it.

System

Restart and shut down, the login, language and look, whether several backends run at once, the setup assistant again, remote access through Tailscale, and Raspberry Pi OS updates: first a search that lists every package, then the install with its log live on the page.